Daniel Rebiffé, originally from Étampes, in Essonne, is the last survivor of the French torchbearers from the 1948 Games in London. When he learned that the 2024 Olympics would be held in France, carrying the flame again became an obsession for him.
“I said to myself: I have to hold on until then. I wanted the two torches to be able to be symbolically reunited,” confides the moved nonagenarian, now based in Amboise (Indre-et-Loire)