Less than 10 months before the Paralympic Games in Paris, the route of the flame was revealed this Friday, November 10, with a departure from England, a passage through the Channel Tunnel and simultaneous lightings across around fifty cities .
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292! This is the number of days remaining before the start of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. As for the Olympic Games, the 12 days of competition will be symbolically opened by the lighting of a cauldron by a flame brought to the The outcome of a journey revealed this Friday, November 10 at the headquarters of the Organizing Committee.
Duration reduced, but divided route for the journey of the torch which will be carried and accompanied by 1000 people (800 individually and 200 within collective relays), over a total of only 4 days, from August 25 to 28.
The Stoke Mandeville symbol
As with the Olympic Games in Olympia, Greece, there is a mandatory starting point. it will be Stoke Mandeville, in the suburbs of London, considered the cradle of Paralympism, where the very first competition for the disabled and mutilated of the Second World War was created in 1948. The flame will be lit there in mid-August, but it is the Channel Tunnel which will symbolically mark the start of the event, with a handover ceremony on the 25th, at the midpoint of the work, between 24 British torchbearers and 24 French. The torch will end its first day in Calais.
It is from there that the flame will multiply and subdivide into 12 flames. The original continues its journey towards Paris, the other 11 will appear on August 26 in coastal towns or border departments of France (Lorient, Montpellier, Antibes and Strasbourg). The flames will rise towards the capital with, in most cases, a single stage during the day, chosen for its commitment to sport or the inclusion of people with disabilities.
Around fifty localities will be crossed. All the flames will be in Ile-de-France on August 27 for a final regional journey, before a victory lap in Paris on the 28th and their arrival at the Place de la Concorde for the opening ceremony. The terms of the course and the relay captains are the same as for the Olympic Games. The torch will change carriers every 200 m and the public will perhaps once again have the opportunity to see, flame in hand, Florent and Laure Manaudou as well as para-triathlete Mona Francis and Dimitri Pavadé, silver medalist at the length at the Tokyo Paralympic Games.