Thomas Pesquet will carry the Olympic flame on its journey through Normandy. The relay of the Rouen astronaut will take place during the passage in front of Mont-Saint-Michel, on Friday May 31.
Thomas Pesquet torchbearer of the Olympic flame. If the information does not surprise many people, as the aura of the Rouennais is immense in France and around the world, we now know more precisely when the Norman astronaut will carry the torch.
According to the general director of Mont Saint-Michel Thomas Velter, the astronaut will hold the torch during the passage to the Merveille, Friday May 31.
This Wednesday, May 8, Thomas Pesquet was in Marseille, to witness the arrival of the Olympic flame in France, via Belem. Many Internet users were also offended that the rapper Jul was chosen to light the cauldron located in the Old Port of the Phocaean city.
In Normandy, if the choice of the former host of the International Space Station seems to be unanimous on social networks, it is the location of his relay which leaves some doubtful. On X, Stephanie wonders “Where is the logic” for a certainly Norman personality, but “who spent his entire childhood between Dieppe and Rouen“. No doubt she would have preferred to see him torch in hand in Seine-Maritime on July 5.
