The torch begins its 11-week journey throughout the nation with about 10,000 bearers passing by way of greater than 450 cities till the Video games’ opening ceremony in Paris on July 26.
Former soccer participant Basile Boli, who performed with the Marseille staff within the Nineties, will launch Thursday’s first relay from Notre Dame de la Garde basilica that overlooks Marseille and the Mediterranean.
Basketball participant Tony Parker was to take his flip within the relay in a while Thursday. A fencing champion, a skateboarder, a Michelin-starred chef and a comic had been additionally chosen to hold the flame.
Members had been scheduled to run all day by way of probably the most emblematic locations of town to deliver the torch on the roof of the famed Stade Velodrome, residence to Marseille’s passionate soccer followers.
Town on Wednesday celebrated with nice fanfare the flame’s arrival as Marseille mayor Benoît Payan stated that greater than 230,000 folks attended the ceremony within the Outdated Port.
“It’s simply unbelievable, simply magical,” resident Amel Sekko stated. “We wanted it. We by no means have occasions or stunning issues like this in Marseille.”
Mouna Boulhas, one other Marseille resident, stated: “It’s one thing it’s important to expertise at the very least as soon as in your life … We’ve the solar and the Olympic flame.”
In the course of the Video games, the crusing competitors and a few soccer matches can be held in Marseille.
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