The torch relay continues in Italy. On Sunday, it set off from Bra, in Piedmont, to finish its day in Turin. Along the way, it stopped in Asti, where Amelie Oudea-Castera was invited to participate. One a major first for the president of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee. « At Paris 2024, I passionately supported and followed the relay, but did not participate myself, as the political authorities were unable to carry the Olympic flame., explains the woman who was a minister at the time. You’re visiting very happy to have had the honor of doing so, in Astiin Piedmont, for the Milan-Cortina Games. »
« I felt that joy and pride that I had happily seen reflected on so many faces.she continued on LinkedIn. During the relay, torch in hand, one feels like a bearer of botha powerful symbol, a link in a human chain committed to sport and Olympism, and spoiled with experience a unique momentThank you to the organizers, to Coca-Cola, the partner of the torch relay in Italy, and to my French companions who shared this 35th stage with me, under an enchanting blue sky! »
In December, his Belgian colleague Jean-Michel Saive, president of the COIB, had also participated in the relay when it passed through Catania, Sicily. That evening, Edgar Grospiron, Olympic moguls skiing champion in 1992 and current president of the COJOP French Alps 2030, carried the torch in turn through the streets of Turin. He had already taken part in the Paris 2024 relay in June 2024 on the Glières Plateau.
