"I'm going to carry the Olympic flame, wow! My parents are going to be super happy, I can already see my dad was going to announce it everywhere! Ladji Doucouré, world champion in the 110m hurdles in 2005 and 4th at the Beijing Games in 2008, can no longer stand still. "I'm 40 years old, I've spent more than half my life running, trying to perform as well as I can at the Olympics, still today as a coach. So carrying the flame, which symbolises the Olympic Games, the Olympic Truce and all the values of Olympism, makes me very proud. »
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From the morning of Monday 15 January, around 8,000 of the 10,000 people chosen to carry the Olympic flame across all overseas countries and territories will be notified by e-mail. Many anonymous people ― chosen by Paris 2024, the territories where the flame will pass from 8 May, and the sponsors of the relay, Banque Populaire - Caisse d'Epargne and Coca-Cola ― but also personalities from sport, music, cinema and gastronomy.
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