Team GB’s Flag Bearers for Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony
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Team GB have selected their flagbearers for the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics which is due to take place on Friday.
While the Games have already begun, with rugby sevens and football both kicking off on Wednesday, the official opening will commence at 7.30pm local time (6.30pm GMT) and will be held on the River Seine.
It will be a historic event for the Games, with this being the first time an Opening Ceremony will take place outside of a stadium. Athletes are due to be escorted down the iconic city’s main artery and past it’s world-renowned landmark, the Eiffel Tower.
Carrying the flag for the ceremony is considered a huge honour and the two athletes selected will join a list of British Olympic greats to have also led the team at the ceremony.
Some of those names include Sir Chris Hoy, Katie Howey, Andy Murray and Sir Matthew Pinsent.
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It was revealed on Wednesday that Tom Daly and Helen Glover are the two athletes who have been selected as Great Britain’s flagbearers for Friday’s Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
Diver Daley, 30, and rower Glover, 38, were chosen out of a group of athletes nominated to Team GB by sports.
The final selection was then made by a panel headed by Britain’s chef de mission Mark England.
Daley is competing in his fifth Games, having made his debut at Beijing 2008 aged 14.
He has won four Olympic medals – one gold and three bronzes – and competes in the 10-metre synchronised platform event with Noah Williams on Monday.
The decorated Olympians are favourites to carry the flag at Friday night’s opening ceremony
Sir Chris Hoy led Great Britian out at the 2012 Olympics, at the Olympic Stadium in London
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Glover, meanwhile, is rowing in her fourth Olympics, having won gold in the coxless pair at both London 2012 and Rio 2016.
She is part of the coxless four in Paris and is looking to become the first British mother to win a rowing medal.
Glover has three children – six-year-old son Logan and four-year-old twins Kit and Bo.
The pair are set to join their fellow Team GB athletes on a boat which will escort them down the River Seine. They will then disembark and carry the flag to La Place du Trocadero, opposite the Eiffel Tower, where the official opening will take place.
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