“A real challenge”: dress rehearsal on the Olympic flame route, four months before the Paris Games. In a festive atmosphere, 90 people take turns this Friday in a simulation exercise from Clairvaux Abbey to Troyes.

The real Olympic torch relay, with its 11,000 bearers, will begin on May 8 in Marseille. “We are in the home stretch, clearly. And that's a real challenge in terms of coordination. We really needed this coordination test," says Tony Estanguet.