After surveying the city of Bordeaux the day before, the Olympic flame continued its relay on French territory and discovered the Charente department. At the end of the evening, the cauldron was lit in Angoulême by Kassandra Burns, a local sports photographer.
The day began this Friday morning in Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire. This fifteenth stage was launched by Manon Mioulet, who had completed the Diagonale des Fous trail in Reunion.
🔥 #Paris2024 | The torch relay stops in Charente. And it’s Mano Mioulet, who completed the Diagonale des Fous 🌋, who launches the 15th stage. Sport shooting will conclude the day in Angoulême.
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Then head to Cognac, birthplace of François I, at 10:30 a.m. The first porter, Laurent Vital, works in the Hennessy house. In total, 17 people carried the flame in the town. As since the start of the torch relay, many people came to see the flame.
In Confolens, the flame was carried by the new oldest member of the relay. Julienne Soury, 107 years old, had the honor of participating in the relay. It was then the turn of Philippe Croizon, a four-limb amputee swimmer, to take part in the torch relay.
The day ended in Angoulême, where a collective relay was organized by the French Shooting Federation. A relay led by Dominique Auprêtre, who participated in the Seoul Games in 1988. Finally, local sports photographer Kassandra Burns set the cauldron alight, still in Angoulême.
Throughout the day, several athletes participated in the relay. This is the case of the former international footballer Brigitte Henriques, the first woman to become president of the CNOSF or of the ex-judokate Marie Claire Restoutx-Gasset or of Ndeye Sokhna Lacoste, selected for the Tokyo Games on the relay 4×400 meters.
Tomorrow Saturday, the Olympic flame will be visible in Vienna. It will leave Loudun before being lit at Futuroscope in Poitiers at the end of the day.
