Paris 2024 Olympic games: Who are the 11,000 people that will carry the flame across France?
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The Olympic flame arrives in France on board a historic masted ship on Wednesday for a ceremony in front of 150,000 people that will be a first major test for organisers and security forces ahead of the 2024 Paris Games. Who will carry the flame across France? Story by France Télévisions and Solange Mougin.