Unlike the neighboring departments of Haute-Savoie and Isère, Savoie has not drawn a line under the passage of the Paris 2024 Olympic flame on its territory.

However, the local authorities have set an essential condition for hosting the torch relay.

They want to be the department where the symbolic journey will begin, indicates France 3 Auvergne Rhône-Alpes.

A historic scope

If this is the case, the Savoyard elected officials have made it known that the department has volunteered to organize a stage of the event.

Local officials highlighted the historical basis of their request, recalling that it was in Savoie that an Olympic flame was lit for the last time on French territory.

They referred to the 1992 Winter Olympics, held in Albertville (Savoie).

The Alpine department would therefore not have considered the financial participation requested by the Paris 2024 organizing committee too costly. other French departments.

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