“If I have a dream, it is to light the Olympic cauldron! » Marie-Josée Perec, 55, a three-time Olympic champion, expressed her desire to be the last bearer of the flame during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on Friday, July 26. Various polls conducted in recent months among French people and sports fans have named the greatest French Olympic athlete crowned in the 400m in 1992, 200m and 400m in 1996 (and flag bearer of the French Olympic team in Atlanta) , is systematically returning to the shortlist of the latest potential torchbearers.
There are other candidates in the hearts of the French. Our poll last summer placed three-time Olympic medalist judoka Teddy Riner in the order, well ahead (25%), ahead of Kylian Mbappe (11%), Martin Fourcade (10%), Zinedine Zidane (10%), David Douillet (8%), Marie-Josée Perec (8%), Laura Manadou (7%)…
Source: Le Parisien
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