Agde: in January 1968, the Olympic flame traveled through the city

En janvier 1968, le maire d’Agde Pierrick Lapeyre, au centre derrière les jouteurs Mimi Castaldo et Joseph Massal, avait accueilli la flamme sur le parvis de la mairie, rue Jean-Roger. D.R.

Three weeks before the Grenoble Winter Olympics, the young athletes of the town had the honor of carrying the Olympic flame, which even made a short 5-minute stop in front of the town hall of Grenoble. SO.

As the Olympic flame prepares to disembark from the ship Le Belem in the port of Marseille, Wednesday May 8, memories of the passage of the flame in Agde resurfaced in the memory of the Agathois.

It was January 1968 and Grenoble was going to host the Winter Olympic Games which will go down in the annals of French sport, with the second gold medal for skier Marielle Goitschel and the ;rsquo;advent of Jean-Claude Killy. Three weeks earlier, after Narbonne and Béziers, it was the town of Agde which had the honor of welcoming the Olympic flame, carried by young athletes from local clubs.

Only small violation of the rules: a five-minute stop in front of the house in the heart of the town, the then town hall, where Pierrick Lapeyre, mayor from 1965 to 1971, welcomed the ;rsquo;event alongside two jousters, Mimi Castaldo and Joseph Massal.

Two Agathois will carry the flame

Two Agathois will have the honor of carrying the Olympic flame in the coming days: Georges Grimaud, whom we introduced to you; on January 24, and young Chloé Montalieu, sports student. The first will run Monday May 13 & Sète, the second à Montpellier, the same day. Something to make this family of fishermen proud!
Finally, Chloé Marques also lived the Olympic dream but in another way, since she escorted the Olympic Games. the flame of Athens until ’à Marseille, à aboard the three-masted ship Le Belem. An incredible adventure that ends Wednesday May 8.