“We are ready to take on this challenge,” assures Tony Estanguet, president of the Organizing Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on TF1. “It’s no small thing to organize the Olympic and Paralympic Games, it’s the biggest event that France has ever organized,” he said. “We are going to welcome the world, more than 200 countries, 15,000 athletes, 20,000 journalists, it will be exceptional games,” he continued, adding, regarding the arrival of the flame in Marseille: “We had to may this arrival ceremony, welcoming the Olympic flame, reflect the image of these Games.”
“Today is the real kick-off of four months of parties, of celebrations. We are so happy, so proud to start here, in Marseille, it makes so much sense,” greeted Tony Estanguet, describing the Phocaean city as “a city of sports, a city of passion, a city of celebration.” “This arrival via Belem is spectacular, it is in the image of these Games, which promise to be daring, which promise to be a little unprecedented, we have shaken up the codes a little and we are very proud of that” , welcomed the president of the organizing committee.
