2024-05-09 11:03:55
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Published 1 hour ago, Updated 1 hour ago
The torch relay in Marseille. Denis Balibouse / REUTERS
The global soda giant organized a competition to allow 750 consumers to participate in the torch relay.
Special envoy to Marseille
No need to be an Olympic champion or gold medalist to carry the torch. After the swimmer Florent Manoudou, the athlete Nantenin Keïta and the rapper JuL Wednesday evening in the Old Port of Marseille, hundreds of much less famous French people will also have this honor. For 200 meters, they will be the heroes of the Olympic torch relay, which started this Thursday, May 9 at 8:20 a.m. at the foot of the Notre-Dame de La Garde basilica. Even without any connection with the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (Cojo) or the partners of Paris 2024, 750 people won their place thanks to a competition organized by Coca-Cola. They are part of the 11,000 torchbearers who will pass the flame between now and the opening ceremony, on July 26, according to a precise ceremony: the “torch kiss”, where two bearers bring their torches together in order to pass the flame from one to the other.
Among them, Yvan Sorel, founder of an integration association through…
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