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Thursday, January 4, 2024

#ParisPeachy #FrancePeachy #SportyPeachy @Paris2024 The Route of the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay

On 10 November 2023, Paris 2024 unveiled the route of the Paralympic Torch Relay, which will take place from 25 to 28 August 2024, organized with the support of its Official Sponsors, Coca-Cola, Banques Populaires and Caisses d'Epargne.
Find out more about the complete route via this link

After being lit in the historic birthplace of Paralympic sport, Stoke Mandeville, the Paralympic Flame will be symbolically passed between 24 British and 24 French athletes in the middle of the Channel Tunnel.

Arriving on the French coast at Calais, the Paralympic Flame will multiply into twelve Flames spread around the outskirts of France. It will be carried by no fewer than 1,000 Forerunners in around fifty towns, in 12 simultaneous relays converging on Paris. The Paralympic Torch Relay will raise the fervour in every part of the country and kick off the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.

The Paralympic Torch Relay route was designed in collaboration with the French Paralympic and Sports Committee, with the aim of highlighting areas that are committed to greater inclusion in sport. It has also been designed to highlight the sporting and committed cities closest to the Games, as well as cities that are symbolic of France's history and heritage.

During the Relay, a Festival of the Flame will be organized in the heart of the city, with music, activities and introductory courses in Para sports, to share the energy of the Paralympic Games with as many people as possible!

The four captains unveil the uniforms of the 1,000 Paralympic Torchbearers and the 10,000 Olympic Torchbearers of the Paris 2024 Relays.

The torchbearers will take to the roads of France in a uniform designed by Decathlon, an Official Partner of Paris 2024. It will be white to symbolise the peace, unity and fraternity between peoples so dear to the tradition of the Torch Relay. With the exception of the emblem, the uniforms of the bearers of the Olympic Flame and the Paralympic Flame will be identical.

Discover the uniforms of the Torchbearers via this link








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