It was from Saint-Malo that the flame’s journey to Ille-et-Vilaine began at about 8 a.m. this Saturday. She set off through Grand Baie, then continued along the ramparts, Sillon beach and Marville stadium. Skipper Fabrice Payen was responsible for spreading the fire into Brittany.
Sixteen other porters took control, including sailor Servan Escoffier, speed skater Alexis Contin and star chef Hugo Röllinger, as well as a number of anonymous individuals.
Potter with bionic prosthesis made in France
At Fougères, in front of a crowd gathered in several rows, 16 fire-bearers took turns passing through the city at the end of the morning between the castle and the Place de la République. Champion swimmer Hadda Gerchouche, silver medalist at the 1992 Barcelona Paralympic Games and bronze medalist at the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games, started the course.
In Paimponne, among the bearers was Nicolas Huchet, co-founder of the My Human Kit association, who became the first torchbearer in the history of the Olympic Games to carry the flame using a bionic prosthesis made in France.
In Vitre at about 14:45 we found among the torchbearers Vitrean parapongist Tu Kamkasompha, gold medalist in Sydney (2000) and Beijing (2008), 55, who will compete in the Paralympic Games in Paris this summer. There was also a physical education teacher, Zhanze Julie Pofillat, who returned from Greece and Olympia with her 4th grade students.
In Saint-Just, between Rennes and Redon, the young Jinan Mai, an athlete from Rennes who specializes in the 1500 and 3000 m races, carried the torch through the Landes de Cojoux and among the megaliths at 16:20. In Cesson-Sévigné, in its last stage before Rennes, the flame began its race with a team relay organized by the French Canoe Federation at the Whitewater Stadium of Cesson-Sévigné.
He was then transported to the Baud Plain in Rennes by hovercraft and coxed by a figure-of-eight oar.
In Rennes, 81-year-old Robert Poirier, a former athlete and former French athletics director, had the honor of carrying the flame into the stadium that bears his name.
A dense crowd gathered along the 8-kilometer route from Plaine de Beau to the Esplanade Gaulle, through the Place de la Parlement, Place de la City Hall and the Stade Robert Poirier. 87 torchbearers followed each other through the streets of Rennes. Starting with Oksana Gutiérrez, Plaine de Baude, Perle Bouge, finishing and lighting the cauldron of de Gaulle’s Esplanade.
Anonymous people communicated with personalities such as Rennes Zhenya Grebennikov, Olympic champion in the French volleyball team 2021 at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, or artists such as Chilla and Lukhipeka, who performed this very Saturday in Liberté.
Source: Le Parisien
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