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Snoop Dogg to carry Olympic torch on final day of relay in Paris 2024
The American rapper will be one of the Olympic torchbearers on July 26, the last day of the relay of the sacred flame before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
Snoop Dogg holding a javelin in one of the Olympic venues that will be used. (Photo Prensa Libre: AFP)
Athletes continue to land in Paris, as do music stars, delegations appoint their flag bearers and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) The traditional pre-Olympic Games session begins on Tuesdaythree days before the long-awaited opening ceremony of Paris-2024.
The Seine River will be the epicentre of the world on Friday, with 300,000 spectators on site to greet the boats that will carry thousands of athletes in an unprecedented parade, the first Olympic opening ceremony to take place outside a stadium, which requires exceptional security measures.
Who will sing at the opening ceremony? It is still unknown, but stars like the Canadian Celine Dionthe American Lady Gaga and the legend of rap Snoop Dogg have already arrived in the French capital.
Snoop Dogg will carry the torch through the streets of Saint-Denisa popular, ethnically diverse suburb north of Paris that is home to the Olympic Stadium and Aquatics Centre, the city’s mayor said, Mathieu Hanotin.
Other bearers in Saint-Denis will be the French actress Laetitia Castathe French rapper MC Solar and former Ukrainian pole vault champion Sergei Bubka.
The Olympic torch has been travelling across France for two monthsand on Friday will cross the athletes’ village, located between Saint-Denis and neighbouring Saint-Ouen, before going to the Olympic Stadium and the Aquatic Centre, a few kilometres away.
Snoop Dogg, de 52 yearswas born in the metropolitan area of The Angelswhich will host the next Games in 2028.
The torch relay will not be the rapper’s only appearance at the 2024 Games, as He will also be an Olympic commentator for the American television network NBC.
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