with humor, Montreal regrets the absence of the passage of the Olympic flame in the Canadian metropolis

The city of Montreal is a little sulky… and even downright upset at not being on the path of the Olympic flame. What is this funny video circulating asking to be added to the list?

Montreal, the island between the two rapids, the city where the currents meet, is known for being particularly friendly. It is even ranked among the 10 cities with the best reputation in the world. While 65,000 French people live on its territory, she finds it quite annoying, quite “tanning” as they say there, not to be part of the cities chosen for the passage of the Olympic flame.

Obviously, she does not contest the choices of the caves of Lascaux, the Château de Versailles, Poitiers, Auxerre or Nanterre, but as her tourist office reminds us in a video addressed directly to the French Olympic Committee, she has everything even been enough “surprise” to have been forgotten. To the point that there is now a website called “laflammeàmontreal.com”, on which she hopes to receive many visits.

Communication operation of the tourist office

This very humorous video and website actually have no other goal than to make you “fall in love”, by presenting you with the city’s most beautiful assets: Mount Royal, its 280 hectares of park, the rue Sainte-Catherine, the Saint-Joseph oratory… It is in short a very clever communication operation, and not a real call for the flame to pass through Montreal. It’s a “joke”.

Besides, Montreal has nothing to envy of Paris. It also hosted the Summer Olympic Games and is in fact the only city in Canada to have had this privilege, in 1976. The torch relay was then worthy of a science fiction film, since to ensure its transfer between Athens and Canada without having to travel the 7,750 km which separate the two points, the organizers used a satellite signal emitted from Athens, by the original flame, via an ionized particle sensor. It was also here, in Montreal, that for the first time, to symbolize the English-speaking and French-speaking communities, the Olympic cauldron was lit by two people.