Baptiste Moirot, a young man who went viral in 2017 after posting a video on Facebook, will carry the Olympic flame. In 2017, the young man, then a teenager, filmed himself sitting on the floor of his bedroom, in his underwear, playing with fire.
His mother, alerted by the smell of smoke, then entered the room to give him a line that has become legendary: "But you're not clean, Baptiste." “But yes, I am very clear,” he then retorted. “From a spark in his teenage bedroom to becoming one of the torchbearers for the Paris2024 Olympic Games. Welcome to the Baptiste adventure! », writes the official account of the event in a video posted on X.com on Wednesday. The young man has never really been forgotten by Internet users, since a Facebook event “For Baptiste to light the flame for the 2024 Olympics in Paris” was recently created. Nearly 275,000 people responded to the call.