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Paris 2024 Olympic Games: “I shed my little tear,” admits Gabriella Papadakis

In the Panathenaic stadium divided between shadow and light, the flame handover ceremony lasted an hour and saw a parade of young dancers, the Greek presidential guard, the legendary Nana Mouskouri to perform the anthems, the last flame bearers (including Béatrice Hess and Gabriella Papadakis), a tenor to accompany the dance of the priestesses.

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Paris 2024 Olympic Games: “I shed my little tear,” admits Gabriella Papadakis

In the Panathenaic stadium divided between shadow and light, the flame handover ceremony lasted an hour and saw a parade of young dancers, the Greek presidential guard, the legendary Nana Mouskouri to perform the anthems, the last flame bearers (including Béatrice Hess and Gabriella Papadakis), a tenor to accompany the dance of the priestesses. Before the speeches and the passing of the flame.

A moment savored by the small French delegation. Tony Estanguet, the president of Paris 2024, who received the flame from the president of the Hellenic Olympic Committee Spyros Capralos, summed up: “I did not expect this emotion. With the torch lit, it was a great moment for me to take the lantern and entrust it to the guardians of the flame who will bring it home to us from tomorrow. That's it, it's concrete, I touched the flame, it's lit. It’s up to us, our match has started.”

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Gabriella Papadakis, one of the last French torchbearers with Béatrice Hesse, said: “I felt a lot of emotion, it was magical. I shed my little tear, it was magnificent. I was born in France but my father grew up in Greece. There were a lot of symbols for me.”

Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, Minister of Sports, Olympic and Paralympic Games then confided: “That’s it, the flame is French! I was very moved by the ceremony. I was touched by the sobriety, by a form of transmission between generations with the 150 young people from the Franco-Hellenic high school who performed the dance of the Games and Nana Mouskouri, a dazzling voice, it was strong. A very beautiful light in this marble stadium steeped in history, where the first Games of the modern era took place thanks to Pierre de Coubertin. It was strong. A very beautiful moment of sharing. After a night at the French embassy, ​​tomorrow (Saturday) we will be very happy to put her on board the Belem for this magnificent crossing of the Mediterranean 12 days before an arrival which promises to be triumphant in Marseille. It will be May 8.

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