2024-04-25 20:22:10
On the occasion of the Olympic flame handover ceremony, orchestrated this Friday April 26, 2024 in the setting of the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens (Greece), the Paris 2024 Games Organizing Committee (COJO) will take full possession of the torch which will then embark on a crossing of the Mediterranean to reach France.
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Lhe organizers of the 2024 Olympic Games announced today that they had chosen a duo of French champions to accompany the transmission of the Olympic flame between Greece, where it was lit on April 16and France, where she will begin her journey on May 8.
Paris 2024 thus announced that Beatrice Hess et Gabriella Papadakis would be there for the handover of the flame announced at the Panathenaic Stadium this Friday, April 26, 2024.
Alongside Greek athletes Antigoni Ntrismpioti, walking specialist and double European Champion in the 20 kilometers and 35 kilometers in Munich in 2022, and Ioannis Fountoulis, captain of the Greek water polo team which won silver at the Games of Tokyo 2020, the two French sportswomen will illustrate the link between the two countries and, more broadly, sporting performance and surpassing oneself through two exceptional courses.
With this choice, the organizers also aim to symbolize and accentuate the dynamic in the run-up to the Games, almost 90 days before the Opening Ceremony.
A five-time medalist at the Athens 2004 Games, Béatrice Hess has nothing less than the finest French Paralympic record, crowned with some 26 medals between 1984 and 2004, including 20 Paralympic Champion titles in para-swimming.
Beyond her exploits on the Games stage, Béatrice Hess also distinguished herself as standard bearer of the French delegation at the Atlanta 1996 Paralympic Games, before being named captain of the French team at the occasion of the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games.
Gabriella Papadakis, for her part, forms an emblematic duo of French sport with her ice dancing partner, Guillaume Cizeron, with whom she has been skating since the age of 9.
Together, they have been able to write one of the most beautiful pages in world figure skating in recent years, with five European Champion titles gleaned between 2015 and 2019, five World Champion titles (2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2022), but also a silver medal at the PyeongChang 2018 Games and above all, the Olympic coronation, obtained during the Beijing 2022 Games.
During the torch handover ceremony, the bond uniting Greece and France will also be illustrated by the arrival on stage of the singing icon, Nana Mouskouri, to sing the anthems at the heart of the meeting presented by host Nikos Aliagas, already in charge of the Flame Lighting Ceremony.
The Athenian Ceremony will begin with a show highlighting Greece, through the dual prism of sport and culture. Titled « Wolves Team / Gymnastics Club »ce show will be performed by sixty dancers directed by Olympia Dragouni.
The French culture will then be highlighted through two performances, the first – « Dance of the Games » – proposed by 150 students from the Franco-Greek school Eugène Delacroix under the mastery of choreographer Mourad Merzouki, and the second – « The Olympic Cypher » – presented by six dancers and a musician according to choreography by Ilias Hatzigeorgiou.
The entry of the flags and the anthems will follow an interlude, before the Priestesses make their appearance in the monumental setting of the Panathenaic Stadium, just before the Olympic flame in turn enters the site.
A basin – placed in the center of the building – will then be lit by Ioannis Fountoulis, before a performance is carried out by the Priestesses under the artistic direction of Artemis Ignatiou.
The speeches of Spyros Capralos, President of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, and Tony Estanguet, President of the Paris 2024 OCOG, will mark the turning point of the Handover Ceremony which will finally see the High Priestess, Mary Mina, light the torch to hand it over to Spyros Capralos, the latter then entrusting the flame to Tony Estanguet.
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