Oissel Chief Brigadier Margareth Potier will be one of the keepers of the Olympic flame. Selected from hundreds of candidates, there will be only a few dozen in total to accompany the torch bearers.

“I don’t see it as revenge for my accident, a bit as if I were living my own Games through this necessarily unique experience. It's so symbolic... I rather have the feeling that through me it is all the volunteers who keep sport alive’