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The route of the Olympic flame was unveiled on Friday, just over thirteen months before the opening ceremony of the Games.
Once the route of the flame was revealed, Friday, June 23, from the Sorbonne University in Paris, the president of the Organizing Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (Cojop), Tony Estanguet, announced the names of several celebrities. who will have the honor of being an ambassador for the relay and carrying the sacred fire on its journey between Olympia, in Greece, and the French capital. Among them, the starred chef Thierry Marx and Jamel Debbouze.
“I am stressed. It’s a responsibility so I hope I don’t stumble. I ask myself all sorts of questions but I am very proud to be here! We leave from Athens, we cross all of France, we arrive in Panama and we have an international party”, summed up the actor. Also mobilized, astronaut Thomas Pesquet was delighted to participate in this planetary event. “It’s not so easy to live together, we have a lot of opportunities to divide. This is something where we really want to bring everyone together”, he explained. In total, there will be 10,000 torchbearers to carry the flame to Paris.