Guest of the Sud Radio media program, this Wednesday, May 22, 2024, Gérard Holtz expressed his regret at seeing personalities, other than athletes, carrying the Olympic Flame.
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Gérard Holtz doesn’t speak wooden language… This Wednesday, May 22, 2024, the famous sports journalist was the guest of the Sud Radio media show, on the occasion of the release of his new book Legends of the Games, obviously dedicated to the Olympic Games. While Paris is preparing to host the international event from next Friday July 26, the Olympic Flame has already started its journey from Olympia in Greece to reach the French capital. As tradition dictates, porters were therefore appointed. The rapper Jul, for example, lit the cauldron in the city of Marseille at the beginning of the month. La Flame also climbed the steps in Cannes this Tuesday.
Gérard Holtz shocked by the celebrities chosen to carry the Olympic Flame
Questioned by Valérie Expert and Gilles Ganzmann, Gerard Holtz affirmed that he did not wish to be one of the personalities chosen to carry the Olympic Flame: “I’m not going to wear it and I say priority to athletes anyway…“, he confided, explaining that he had been “shocked” to see certain celebrities like Jul among the ambassadors: “Yes, very honestly… Obviously it’s a monument in Marseille, everyone loves it there, in the Old Port and in the neighborhoods. But we could have chosen someone else, an athlete. I would have seen Zinedine Zidane“, he explained on the microphone of Sud Radio.
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Gérard Holtz shares Estelle Denis’ opinion on the bearers of the Olympic Flame
A few days ago, Estelle Denis had a rant on her RMC show, about the choice of bearers of the Olympic Flame: “What bothers me is that in our country, we look down on sport (…) But there, as if by chance, when it comes to carrying the flame and doing your own advertising on social networks… The people we’ve never seen in tracksuits and who are there to boast because they carry the flame, all to make their personal communication, it bothers me terribly“, she chanted. An opinion that Gérard Holtz completely shares: “I agree with Estelle, as I often do (…) she is a great professional. And I think she is largely right: let the world of sport benefit from these moments and this magic of the Olympic Flame“, he concluded.
