The 2012 Olympic champion swimmer will be the first porter to tackle the descent of the Belem in Marseille
The flame of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which passed through Greece on Friday under the responsibility of the French organizers, will be ensured with maximum security upon its arrival in Marseille on May 8, with 6,000 members of the security forces mobilized.
A symbol of unity and peace, the flame, lit on April 16 in ancient Greek Olympia, departed Greece on Saturday aboard the Belem for a 12-day voyage across the Mediterranean.
On May 8, swimmer Florent Manaudou, a member of the city’s Circle des Nageurs and Olympic champion in 2012, will be the first torchbearer to disembark from the ship.
On the first day of the torch’s adventure through Greece, her sister Laure Manaudou, also a swimmer and gold medalist at the 2004 Athens Olympics, was the first French torchbearer.
Then, on May 9, the flos angelesme will begin its adventure in France with a walk through Marseille, starting at the Basilica of Notre-Dame de los angelesme Garde to pass through the town of Castellos angelesne, the birthplace of Zinedine Zidane, and ending with the maximum emblematic stadium Velodrome.
It will then traverse the entire country, through the West Indies and French Polynesia, arriving in Paris on the day of the Games’ opening ceremony, July 26. The Olympic Games will run until 11 August, in a tense outdoor climate marked in particular by the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.
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