In Bouches-du-Rhône, the route will therefore be carried out in 8 stages: Les Pennes-Mirabeau (private relay); Cassis ; Miramas; Aix en Provence ; Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône; Istres; Eygalières; Arles.
“Provence” presents the complete list of torchbearers as well as the places where they will run.
Les Pennes-Mirabeau – 8am (not accessible to the general public)
Gilles Zimmermann will be the first torchbearer of the Olympic flame in Bouches-du-Rhône for the day of this Sunday, May 12. Will follow Ali El Baghdadi, Gabriel Astruc, Mimoun Belhadj, Isabelle Bouche, Romane Brechon, Fateh Chenafa, Véronique Chevallier, Anthony Deslandes, Manon Garrigues, Barbara Guzzi, Karim Khadir, Laurence Mani, Myriam Moussaoui, David Pascal, Nicolas Pavard, Sandrine Raphael, David Souchon, Stéphanie Stéphanie, Mehny Yahiaoui, Lea Bonnenfant, Stéphane Ciocca, Jérôme Stoquart, Christine Maffre, Gilles Fortoul.
Be careful, this is a bit of a special step. In fact, it is a private relay organized in the Coca-Cola factory in Pennes-Mirabeau which will not be accessible to the general public. “The American brand is one of the main sponsors of the Olympic Games and in particular the torch relay, as such, it had the privilege of being able to organize one in its factorynotes the Fréquence Sud website. Even if it is private, it will still be an official relay, with all the security measures and a route which will include a transmission of the flame and a collective relay of 25 bearers“.
The site adds that this “hidden relay“featured”a few months ago on the official program for this day of May 12“, but that he has “gradually disappeared from radar” : “Neither the official website of the Olympic Games, nor that of the prefecture, the City of Pennes-Mirabeau or the Department of Bouches-du-Rhône mention it today“.
Blackcurrant – 8:40 a.m.
Ilyes Tari, Stéphanie Noguès Besson, Hervé Devilla, Isabelle Koradjian, Benjamin Callet, Liis Leidma, Michael Rasmussen, Romain Peker-Goubin, Corinne Mercadié, Guillaume Belhumour, Marie-Laure Guidi-Melikoff, Bruno Huss, Paul Devarieux, Guillaume Reynaud, Cassandre Vareilles, Emma Reymond, Morgane Pellegrin, Virginie Peyré, Jean-Paul Bailly, Armand Benichou.
Miramas – 10:44 a.m.
Rémi Laurent, Jeanne Charlotte Odile Lailheugue, Margaux Paris, Laurent Darrieutort, Michel Bertrand.
Aix-en-Provence – 11:19 a.m.
François Bultel, Nicolas Savant-Aira, Damien Veyssière, Carine Rattier, Louis Moreau, Lucy Linnett, Yann Cucherat, Thomas Larroche, Soufia Halim, Jean-Claude Magnan, Perrine Escallier, Victor Chetrari, Sylvie Duforestel, Matthias Benjamin Bolz, Yvan Kazazyan, Petronella Steyn Wathlet, Vincent Orsini, Caroline Cruveillier, Virginie Dedieu, Simon Duchene, Josette Baïz, Catherine Dardon, Barbara Nied, Margot Boucher, Julien Ferando, Catherine Depetri Monghal.
Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône – 2:28 p.m.
Alexandre Caizergues, Jennifer Molesti, Christian Vromen, Thierry Penichon, Robert Amelta.
Istres – 3:41 p.m.
Alexandre Martin, Elisa Augé, Virginie Labourdette, Florent Marée, Sandra Galetto, Patrick Moreno, Maria Sanner, Jérémy Genoud, David Schulz, Eric Dargent, Myriam Sauze, Jeremy Roblin, Louis Chen, Marie-Hélène Guarnaccia, Marie-José Boudaille, Nathalie Grangier.
Eygalières – 5:39 p.m.
Sébastien Monceaux, Maxime Codina, Youssef Khedhri, Gaëlle Simonneau, Gilles Jacques Chrisostome Larrivé, Catherine Albinet.
Arles (stopover city) – 6:18 p.m.
Aurélie Giubergia, Myriam Kloster, Laetitia Lesain-Fromentin, Myriam Pastorino, Estelle Querard, Patricia Vernier, Simon Cayron, Olivier Conte, Michel Cozzi, Romain Jaegle, Yoann Jaumel, Alexandre Pastorello, Gil Raillon, Téo Rotar, Frederic Siegl, Laurent Tillie (former player then coach of the French volleyball team between 2012 and 2021, won the gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Games, postponed to 2021), Allan Tschupp, Mathis Bigler, Victoria Ravva (also a former volleyball player who played for the French team between 2004 and 2007 as a center), Cyril Marty, Pauline Zini, Corinne Gruber, Stéphane Gobance, Noah Serral-Lopez, Fabienne Bermond, Marc Traverso, Mickael Pignolo , Gilles Martinent, Gauthier Montagne, Dominique Thorez, Karl Sanchez (drag queen better known under the stage name Nicky Doll), Sam (Abdesselam) Salmi, Alain Attias, Nicolas Vigne, Thibault Cerboni, Alain Arsac, Luc Dayan, Stephanie Wedding (French disabled table tennis player, notably team gold medalist at the 2000 Summer Paralympic Games in Sydney).
