Before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Olympic flame must tour France in all departments. Faced with the cost requested by the organizers, 150,000 euros, many refuse. Savoie is ready to take out the checkbook, if the course of the flame starts in the department.
It will be a highlight before the start of the Paris 2024 Olympics. The tour of France of the Olympic flame in all departments. Faced with the cost requested by the organizers, 150,000 euros for a day of festivities, many departments such as the Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Indre-et-Loire have decided to say goodbye to the passage of the flame at home. . In Savoie, the department agrees to pay, but imposes its condition on the organizers.
Haute-Savoie is thinking
Department 73 wants the flame’s journey to start at home, in Savoie. If the request is refused, Savoie will not release the checkbook. The elected officials of the department consider their wish legitimate for the following reason: the last time that the Olympic flame was lit in France, it was in Albertville in 1992 during the last Olympic Games in France.
According to elected officials, the department of Haute-Savoie is on the list of those who are wondering about the amount to be paid. The official decision has not yet been made.