This Friday, April 5,
RTL
pulled off a nice coup by revealing the name of the consultant who will officiate on its channels during the 2024 Olympic Games scheduled for Paris from Friday, July 26 to Sunday, August 11. The station announced the arrival of Marie-José Pérec on its airwaves.
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Throughout the duration of the events, the former three-time Olympic champion athlete will provide her expertise and give her point of view. She thus joins the group of consultants who will officiate during Paris 2024 on the RTL antennas, already made up of Philippe Croizon and Henri Leconte.
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All three will be present on air at different times of the day. They will speak on the morning show “RTL Matin” announcing the major events of the day and will look back on the highlights of the day before. During the day, they will regularly intervene live to bring the competitions to life from the different sites. Finally, in the evening, they will be present in the decryption show hosted by Éric Silvestro from Club France which will take place from 7:15 p.m. to 11 p.m.
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This is not the first consulting experience for the 55-year-old Guadeloupean. She took on this role in 2004 on Canal + during the Athens Olympic Games and continued in 2016, in Rio, this time settling on Team 21 and already on RTL. She then wrote a column on the airwaves. Since last July, she has been officiating on France 3 in the daily show “Aux Jeux Citoyens”. France Télévisions has not yet revealed its system for Paris 2024 but assures that it will play a role on their broadcasts also during the competition.
Triple Olympic gold medalist
Marie-José Pérec is still to this day the only French woman to have won three gold medals in athletics at the Olympic Games: in 1992 in Barcelona over 400 meters then in Atlanta in 1996 over 400 and 200 meters.
She recently told AFP how much she would have liked to participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. “
Doing the Games at home, I'm signing up straight away. I'm starting from a blank page, I'm putting everything back into play. I think all the veterans are in this situation. It's going to be crazy. Young people (French people) don't know how lucky they are. There will be such energy... Some athletes, not all, will take the wave and ride it. We are going to see surprises. I believe in it because it’s a galvanizing moment
,” she explained.
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Although she will not be on the track, Marie-José Pérec will still participate in this great sporting celebration in her own way. It is rumored that she could be the last torchbearer of the Olympic flame. An honor that would touch her a lot even if she would like it to be a moment of sharing:
“Being chosen would make me very happy. I would be very touched because I know that many people want to wear it. Afterwards, we talk about a united French team, a single moment, the Olympic Games, the Paralympic Games and inclusion. If I had to choose, I wouldn't just take one person to light the sink. I would take a disabled man and woman, an able-bodied man and woman,”
she told our colleagues at Eurosport on March 22.