we know the first torchbearer of the Olympic flame – Libération

Stefanos Ntouskos, Greek Olympic rowing champion at the Tokyo Games, will be the first bearer of the flame, which will leave the ancient site of ancient Olympia next April before reaching France by boat.

The journey is immutable. More than 5,000 kilometers across Greece, from Olympia to Meteora, from Delphi to Santorini, before reaching the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. We now also know the name of the first bearer of the Olympic flame, who is due to arrive in Paris in less than six months.

The Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) announced on Wednesday November 22 that Stefanos Ntouskos, Greek Olympic rowing champion at the Tokyo Games, would be the first torchbearer. The Olympic flame ceremony, during which the 26-year-old athlete will light the torch, will take place on April 16 at the ancient site of ancient Olympia.

Around 600 torchbearers will carry the Olympic flame in Greece before arriving in Athens on April 26. The last Greek torchbearers will be the players of the national water polo team, Olympic vice-champions in Tokyo in 2021.

The flame will then leave Piraeus to reach Marseille aboard the famous three-masted historic monument, the Belem. She will arrive in France on May 8, a little more than two and a half months before the start of the Paris Olympics on July 26.

“Greece and France are united by strong ties of cooperation and solidarity. Paris will organize a superb Olympic Games and show the greatness of the French people,” said Spyros Capralos, president of the COH.