Retro 2024. The memories left by the Olympic Games in the English Channel

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The Olympic and Paralympic Games will have left beautiful memories. If the Channel did not welcome of testson the other hand, she knew how to make us vibrate wherever she expressed herself.

The flame shines from Cherbourg to Mont

It all starts early the 31st of 2024day of passage of the Olympic flame. First in Cherbourg, in front a crowd of curious people which will be present everywhere: Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, Sainte-Mère-Église, Saint-Lô, Villedieu-les-Poêles, Granville and Mont Saint-Michel.

At its summit, late in the afternoon, Norman astronaut Thomas Pesquet brings the flame back to earth. At the foot of the Mount, the emotion redoubles. Manchois Roger Lebranchu comes forward to light the cauldron.

He will be 102 years old a few days later. This resistant trained with a bottle of water at his home in Coutances to be in shape for this big day. Olympic traininghe then explains mischievously.

And he knows something about it: French rowing champion four in 1941he has represented France at the Olympics London in 1948.

A golden couple in Versailles

The Tollevastais Julien Épaillard – 5^e world has the opening of the competition – and his mare Dubai du Cèdre will have trained the most prominent international couple au Palace of Versaillestest site horse riding.

For their first participation in the Olympics, they are part of the most feared competitors. The passage of the quadra on the obstacleswhich he flies flawlessly in a record time, ensures qualification of the French team in the vault final.

A performance renewed for the “fastest rider in the world”. The collective will win bronze in show jumping. In individualJulien Épaillard qualifies under these same conditions of breathtaking mastery.

A true domination. But the hopes he raised by putting his team on the podium did not materialize in gold for him. A bar falls – cursed 12^e obstacle, cursed August 6. The podium escapes him by a hair: the Tollevastais ranks 4^e.

In shooting, Manchois Éric Delaunay returned empty-handed from his third Olympics. Archer Damien Letulle, the first French male athlete in history to have participated in the Olympic Games (Atlanta, 1996) and the Paralympic Games, too. The Cherbourgeois is eliminated in 8^e final in the W1 category.

Finally, called by Thierry Henry, Granville footballer Johann Lepenant returned with a silver medal for the French Olympic team.

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