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“Carrying the Olympic flame is a gift”: 11,000 torchbearers and so many reasons to be proud of the start of the Olympics

Then, at the end of a twelve-day journey through the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, his three-masted ship docks and the port of Massilia is revealed by flames. After arriving in Marseille and until the end of its odyssey, on July 26, during the opening ceremony of the Paris Games, the Olympic flame will be carried across France by 11 thousand “scouts”.

“When the Coca-Cola company called me and chose me, a river of tears flowed from me, it was like the mouth of the Rhone! » With his height of 80 meters and almost 100 kg of muscles, 37-year-old Ivan Sorel, an MMA pioneer in Marseille, does not hide his emotions. The one who founded his own martial arts school will carry fire through his city on Thursday, May 9. Achievement: “I come from the so-called working-class neighborhoods. We are struggling with very few resources. This proves that we can handle this, which is a great message that I want to convey to my students. »

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Source: Le Parisien

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