They will carry the Olympic flame to Caen and Calvados: discover their names!

Arrival in France aboard the Belem, at Marseilleon May 8, 2024, the Olympic flame will travel across the country over 68 stages, until July 26, the date of the opening of the Paris Olympic Games. In total, some 10,000 people, celebrities and anonymous alike, will take turns carrying the torch to the Tuileries, where the Olympic cauldron will remain ablaze during the Olympics. This Thursday, May 30, is the Calvados that she is going to survey, with an arrival at Caenat the end of the day.

The flame arrives at Omaha Beach

In Calvados, these are 178 people who will participate in this relay, over seven steps. Some were designated by the communities (State, Department, cities), others by the event’s partners (Banque Populaire, Caisse d’Épargne, Coca-Cola) or even by their sports federation. The others, the majority, are done by the Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (COJO).

As a symbol a few days before the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Landing, the flame will arrive in the department by sea, in front of the Signal monument on Omaha Beach, before going up to the American cemetery of Colleville-sur-Mer. It will then crisscross Calvados passing, in order, through Lisieux, Cabourg-Dives-sur-Mer-Houlgate, Honfleur, Bayeux, Falaise and finally Caen. The day will end with the lighting of the Cauldron, on the esplanade of Caen Town Hall.

Already known carriers

The names of all the torchbearers will be revealed three days before the Relay passes through each city. For Calvados and Caen, it will therefore be Monday May 27. But some of them are already known. Here they are :

1. Omaha Beach: four individual torchbearers, 24 collective torchbearers (horse riding), from 7:55 a.m. to 8:25 a.m.. Maxime Wille (great-grandson of Léon Gautier). Collective riding relay: Pénélope Leprévost (captain).

2. Lisieux: 15 individual torchbearers, 24 collective torchbearers (Coca-Cola), from 8:35 a.m. to 9:25 a.m.. Charlotte Furon, Aline Fresnois (Caisse d’Epargne).

3. Cabourg – Dives-sur-Mer – Houlgate: 28 individual torchbearers, from 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.. Marie-Christine Marie (athlete), Bernard Clinet and Anne-Laure Astier-Bernardin (Caisse d’Épargne).

4. Honfleur: four individual torchbearers, from 12:30 p.m. to 12:55 p.m.. Svetlana Mintova-Lazarova (research director at CNRS and catalysis and spectrochemistry laboratory in Caen).

5. Bayeux: 18 individual torchbearers, from 3:25 p.m. to 4:20 p.m.. Eyeru Gebru (Ethiopian refugee cyclist).

6. Cliff: four individual torchbearers, from 4:40 p.m. to 5 p.m.. Lucile Razet (disabled athlete).

7. Hérouville Saint-Clair and Caen: 33 individual torchbearers and 24 collective torchbearers (Caisse d’Épargne), from 5:55 p.m. to 8 p.m.. Flavie Renouard (athlete), Benjamin Lacroix-Desmazes (Paralympic volleyball player), Maëlyn Michel (weightlifter), David Kandelaki (judoka), Marion Joffle (swimmer), Yann Saillour (police officer, read page 4), Natacha Legendre (firefighter), Solice (street artist), Martial Fesselier (walker), Léo Gillette (table tennis), Maxence Blin (hairdresser), Philippe Bencteux, Olivier Cotinat and Adeline Lescanne Gautier (Caisse d’Épargne).

Caisse d’Épargne collective relay: Samba Nor Diaw (captain), Simon Ackermann, Corentin Aligny, Axelle Ayad, Louise Boulent, Marion Bredel, Nicolas Cahlik, Léa Crédidio, Thomas Dauzet, Pierre Dehaen, Maëlis de Witte, Rachid Hichou, Clara Jobbin , Valentine Leblond, Benjamin Lucas, Wilson Meyila, Mathilde Milot, Julie Pommier, Thimoté Polet, Maxime Raillot, Emilie Roussel, Louis Roy, Alexandra Saint-Pierre, Maxime Verdier.

Note that a Paralympic relay will be organized on Monday August 26, including Anne d’Ornano, former president of the Calvados Departmental Council, Pierre-Louis Attwell (navigator), Sacha Tatnou Wandji Ben Samoun (handisport athlete) and Pierre Santos ( table tennis player).

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