Judoka Clarisse Agbégnénou, already standard bearer for the French delegation at the Tokyo Games in 2021, announced her candidacy to be so again at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, in an interview with France Télévisions broadcast on Thursday 15 June. In Tokyo, in 2021, Agbégnénou, 30, was one of the two French flag bearers with gymnast Samir Aït Saïd. Being twice named flag bearer at the Olympics is not a common occurrence. As far as France is concerned, we can cite the case of the athlete Jules Noël in 1932 in Los Angeles then in 1936 in Berlin for the Summer Games, and that of the alpine skier James Couttet in 1948 in Saint-Moritz and in 1956 in Cortina d’Ampezzo, for the Winter Games. Abroad, the tennis player Roger Federer, in particular, carried the Swiss banner in 2004 and 2008.
