In photos – Paris 2024: within the wake of the Olympic flame, from Marseille to Occitanie – Libération

2024-05-17 14:18:48

In Libé’s eyes

As he handed, tons of of individuals gathered to catch a number of the Olympic spirit. From Marseille to Paris, the flame will unfold from torch to torch. We glance again every week throughout France.

Posted on Could 17, 2024 at 4:18 pm

Ukrainian Maria Vysotchanska is surrounded by 27 athletes from every member state of the European Union, through the Olympic torch relay in Marseille, Could 9, 2024.

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Hearth within the Cathar nation. Thursday Could 16, they took to the air to take the torch to the wall of Peyrepertuse, in Aude. Within the early morning, the particular person climbing the mountain and Béatrice Fabre who was removed from him held him, on the code line, to his vacation spot.

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First from Perpignan, the excessive scorer Nawal Meniker fired on the port of Collioure. Silver medalist on the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Video games and bronze medalist on the final European Video games in 2023, the athlete sailed underneath the eyes of many individuals.

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On Could 14, the karateka Alexandra Feracci lit a hearth in entrance of Bonaparte’s statue, on the Place du Casone in Ajaccio, the place she herself was. In whole, 123 relays adopted one another through the Corsican stage, from the Aiguilles of Bavella to Porto-Vecchio.

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Removed from the general public eye, the fireplace broke out on the morning of Could 11 on the high of the Sister’s Tower. However then, carried by 24 climbers, the torch climbed the Rocher de la Baume, a cliff overlooking the city of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.

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The Millau viaduct on rollerblades. On Could 13, earlier than arriving in Montpellier, world curler champ Taïg Khris rode with a torch on the very best bridge on this planet closed to visitors for the occasion.

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On Could 11, Miss Martini turned the primary drag queen in Olympic historical past to hold the flame throughout this time round Digne-les-Bains, within the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. If the artist has to match the official outfit – a white jogging go well with – she retains her shiny pink heels and purple wig to do one thing tutorial.

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