The Olympic flame crosses the Manche department this Friday, May 31 on a route in seven stages. 126 porters will take turns throughout the day, from Cotentin to the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel. Thomas Pesquet, Guillaume Martin, and Daniel Mangeas are expected along the route.
After Calvados yesterday, the Olympic flame arrives in the Channel, this Friday, May 31, 2024. From Cherbourg-en-Cotentin to Mont-Saint-Michel, via Saint-Lô and Granville, the day promises to be memorable.
An event to follow on France Télévisions
Every day, the flame’s journey can be followed live on the Paris 2024 channel on the France.tv platform. This Friday, May 31, the France 3 Normandie Caen teams will be mobilized to make you experience the passage of the Olympic flame across the Channel in your editions ICI 12/13 and ICI 19/20.
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From Cherbourg to Mont-Saint-Michel
In the Channel, 126 torchbearers will carry the torch (as a team or individually) to take the flame to the cauldron installed at Mont-Saint-Michel. Throughout the day, famous porters will rub shoulders with anonymous people on a route passing through Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, Sainte-Mère-Eglise, Saint-Lô, Granville, Villedieu-les-Poêles -Rouffigny and Mont-Saint-Michel.
Among the luminaries invited to carry the flame to the Normandy department, we find the astronaut Thomas Pesquet, the comedian Claudia Tagbo, the cyclists Guillaume Martin, Laurence Leboucher, Félicia Ballanger and Eglantine Rayer, the sports shooting champion Eric Delaunay or even the iconoclastic historical speaker of the Tour de France Daniel Mangeas. Rachida Dati, Minister of Culture, and Amélie Oudéa-Castera, Minister of Sports and the Olympics, are also traveling.
Note that the final flame bearer, who will light the cauldron on the Mount, will be the oldest torchbearer in France. Indeed, at 102 years old, Roger Lebranchu, former rower, participant in the London Olympics in 1948.
