It is this Wednesday, May 8 that the Olympic flame will arrive in France, in Marseille. A day which will mark the start of the relay on French territory for 68 days and 400 towns crossed.
Unless they move along the path of the flame (towards Valence or Chamonix for example), the people of Isère will not see it burning under their windows, since the department did not wish to welcome it.
€180,000 per reception ticket
No more than eight other departments (including Rhône and Savoie for example) out of 12 in Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, which also said “no thank you”! At €180,000 per reception ticket, not including the costs of additional events and security, communities had reason to wonder…
But the people of Isère will still be able to thrill for the Paris Olympics.
There have already been and will continue to be events around the event near you. Isère has in fact been labeled “Terre de Jeux 2024” since 2019 and 97 communities (municipalities and intercommunalities) are too: it is up to them to organize meetings, events and other initiations, around sport and the Olympics.
The Coljog, Conservatory observatory and laboratory of the Grenoble Olympic Games (Coljog), is also increasing its actions. An escape game through the venues of the Grenoble Olympic Games is already offered at Paul-Mistral Park.
There are also people from Isère who will have the honor of being part of the 10,000 French people to carry, for a few meters, the Olympic torch, like Nelly Satin who lives in Cheyssieu, Yassine Zouaoui from Échirolles, specialist in ultra-tail , the Paralympic handbike champion Florian Jouanny, the disabled sports athlete Nicolas Virapin…
Failing to see it in real life, it will be possible to follow the arrival of the Olympic flame in Marseille live this Wednesday, May 8. Departing from the port of Piraeus (Athens) on April 27, it will arrive on the Belem, a majestic three-masted French ship, and will travel across France until the cauldron is lit in Paris on July 26, the day of the opening ceremony. of the 2024 Olympics.
