Swimmer Laure Manaudou and Olympic single scull champion Stefanos Ntouskos are the first bearers of the Olympic flame. VALERIE GACHE/AFP
MOOD – Lit with great fanfare in the middle of the remains of Olympia in Greece, the flame has one hundred days to convince the recalcitrants and reconcile France with its Games.
She has work, and not just a little. If she succeeds in her mission, she will deserve a gold medal. Born this Tuesday morning in Olympia, under the Greek clouds and in the cradle of the Olympic Games, a little flame as fragile as it is graceful has begun its long journey which will lead it, next Friday July 26, to the foot of the Eiffel Tower (if all goes well). well) to close the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and launch the big Olympic fortnight. In Greece, the first days, then transported by the White, it will arrive in France on May 8 to light up the Old Port of Marseille and conquer the rest of the territory.
Yes, it’s really about winning over public opinion that we need to talk about after months of Olympic bashing, controversies of all kinds (Nakamura, poster with the dome of the Invalides, Tony Estanguet’s salary) and criticism more or less less justified (limitation of transport in Paris, threats of strikes, ticket prices, water quality in the Seine, etc.).
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