The Olympic 400m freestyle champion in Athens in 2004 will succeed Greek rower Stefanos Ntouskos, a gold medallist in Tokyo in 2021, who will be the first torchbearer, the framework indicates, almost 100 days before the opening rite in Paris. Olympic Games (July 26 – August 11).
In 2004, he won gold in the 400 m freestyle, silver in the 800 m freestyle and bronze in the 100 m backstroke. In 2008, she competed in Beijing, where she finished seventh in the 100 m backstroke. Finally, in 2012, in London, she finished fourteenth in the 4x100m relay.
After being lit, the Olympic flame began its adventure with ten days of relay in Greece before crossing the Mediterranean aboard the three-masted Belem from 27 April to arrive in France in Marseille on 8 May.