2023-06-24 13:07:55
While the Olympic Torch Relay will travel through the streets of Paris on July 14 and 15, 2024, before coming to set the cauldron of the Summer Games ablaze on the evening of July 26, the Mayor of the capital, Anne Hidalgo, know that the Parisian route would be revealed on Monday July 3, 2023 from the Carnavalet Museum (3rd arrondissement).
The Olympic rings installed in front of the Hôtel de Ville in Paris (Credits – Sport & Société)
The appointment is fixed.
On July 3, Anne Hidalgo will unveil the Parisian route of the Olympic Torch Relay, with the desire to showcase the different districts of the French capital, from the most affluent to the most popular, with of course expected stops in front of the emblematic monuments. who made the history and fame of the “City of Lights”the major sports sites, the banks of the Seine and certainly also the large parks.
At this stage, the City of Paris has simply limited itself to listing the first four places where it will be possible to see the Olympic flame, namely theCity Hall (4th, Paris Center), theNational Assembly (7th), the Stade Roland Garros – with in particular the Court Simonne Mathieu – (16th) and the Bastille’s Place (12e).
For the rest, it will therefore be necessary to wait until the appointment of July 03 to know in its entirety the course in Paris intramural who, 16 years following the 2008 Beijing Games Relay – which had turned into a fiasco and which had contributed to the abolition of the international route for the following editions – will find the Olympic flame in 2024.
During two successive days, Sunday July 14 and Monday July 15, 2024, the Relay from Troyes (Aube) will thus cross the capital where adaptations will have to be made, in particular with regard to the arrangements for the National Day celebrations.
On that day, the traditional military parade will not be able to take place from the Champs-Élysées to Place de la Concorde (8th), given the installation of the stands and the equipment necessary for the organization of the urban sports on the largest square in Paris.
It will be the same a stone’s throw away for the now famous “Paris concert” which usually sits on the Champ-de-Mars, facing the Eiffel Tower (7th) and this, due to the announced presence on site a temporary stadium to host the Olympic beach volleyball tournament and then the Paralympic blind football tournament, combined with the setting up of bleachers and operations surrounding the preparations for the Opening Ceremony on the banks of the Seine.
Fallback solutions will therefore have to be studied by local and national authorities with the constant concern for security, barely 15 days before the inaugural evening of the 2024 Olympics.
After the 48-hour stopover in Paris and before its return on July 26, the Olympic flame will continue its journey through French territories.
In fact, the Torch Relay will go in the direction of Saint-Quentin and its surroundings (Aisne) where it will settle on Wednesday July 17, before going to the Oise side the next day, then to Val-d Oise on July 19, from Seine-et-Marne on July 20, from Val-de-Marne on July 21, from Essonne on July 22, and before taking the road to Yvelines on July 23, to then move closer to Paris, with a visit to Hauts-de-Seine on July 24, and finally a day and a half in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, between July 25 and the morning of the 26th.
After leaving Saint-Denis, the Olympic flame will then return to the “City of Lights” for half a day during which the excitement will rise growing up approaching an Opening Ceremony which will bring together several hundred thousand spectators on the lower quays and upper quays of the Seine along a 6-kilometre stretch between the Pont d’Austerlitz and the Pont d’ Jena.
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