(Marseille) After its triumphant arrival in Marseille on Wednesday and a first day of relay in the Marseille city on Thursday, the Olympic flame continued its journey across France via the Var on Friday, with fewer stars, but breathtaking landscapes.
Shortly after 2 a.m. (Eastern time), the torchbearers began their journey on an athletics track in Saint-Raphaël, in front of a lively and enthusiastic audience, before moving onto the salt road in Hyères, with the Mediterranean on one side, salt marshes on the other.
After the succession of stars in Marseille for the arrival of the flame on French soil, from the rapper Jul to the ex-legend of the Olympique de Marseille Basile Boli, the Var stage highlights anonymous people who bring life sport in their department like Robert Rouland, nonagenarian and tireless hiker.
Among the athletes, the most successful French skier, Marielle Goitschel, put on a show in Saint-Raphaël, the cyclist converted into bobsledder Sandie Clair covered her 200 meters in Hyères and the cycling champion Richard Virenque, emblematic climber of the Tour de France with seven red polka dot jerseys, was expected in Toulon in the afternoon.
The instavidie Domingo, fan of sports and video games, and the actor Charles Berling, at the head of the Toulouse Châteauvallon-Liberté scene, were also to take over in the Var capital.
In total, the Olympic “fire” will pass through the hands of 10,000 “scouts”, in 400 cities in France, to end its journey on the banks of the Seine, on July 26, and set the cauldron ablaze during the ceremony. opening of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, the third Parisian Games after 1900 and 1924.
Saturday he will be in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, before returning to Bouches-du-Rhône on Sunday with an arrival in Arles.