June 2023

Partner Premium Paris 2024 Games and Official Sponsor of the Torch Relays, the BPCE Group – through its network of People’s Banks et Savings Banks – opens a selection campaign for future bearers of the Olympic flame, starting this Thursday, June 1, 2023.

Mless than a month before the unveiling of the Olympic Torch Relay route Paris 2024 Games, the schedule is accelerating.

What Tuesday, May 30, 2023, the Organizing Committee (COJO) thus presented the procedures for selecting the future 11,000 “Scouts” who will successively carry the Olympic torch (10,000 torchbearers) then the Paralympic flame (1,000). On this occasion, the organizers notably outlined the role of the Official Sponsors of the Torch Relay, namely Coca Cola and the BPCE Group.

Also, while the American company will unveil a selection campaign for torchbearers on July 17 – with parallel events planned during the summer as well as a promotional campaign on its products – the People’s Banks and the Savings Banks draw the first, launching, from this Thursday, June 1, 2023, a campaign aimed at selecting 900 torchbearers throughout the territory.

This selection will be made by submitting an application on the platforms dedicated by THE People’s Banks et THE Savings Banksand according to the criteria set by Paris 2024, taking into account in particular the representativeness of all generations, the inclusion of people with disabilities and respect for the principle of parity.

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Although the minimum age required to apply was announced by the OCOG at 15, with a large place given to the general public, it should be noted however that elected politicians and religious figures are excluded from the process.

For the rest, as stated in the BPCE Group :

Are you behind inspiring actions? Are you an actor of entrepreneurship and innovation? Are you working for a more cohesive society? Do you act for sport on a daily basis? Or are you mobilized in favor of the environment?

You have until September 30 to tell us your story and try to be drawn to live the unique experience of becoming a bearer of the Paris 2024 Olympic flame.

In addition to the initiative whose purpose is the selection of torch bearers for individual relays, the campaign will also focus on the composition of collective relays, knowing that Paris 2024 will rely in fine out of 125 relays of this type, including 69 directly from the sports movement.

In the present case, each People’s Bank and every Savings Bank will organize a collective relay on its territory, with 27 relays made up of 24 participants selected from customers, members, employees and local personalities.

As Hélène Madar, Managing Director of Retail Banking and Insurance within the BPCE Group :

As official sponsors of the Olympic and Paralympic Torch Relays, the 12 regional Banque Populaire banks and the 15 regional Caisses d’Epargne are fully committed to making this event a great celebration of sport, popular and open to all.

Cooperative banks and local businesses, they will be keen to register their actions around the Relays in a double logic of inclusion through sport and heritage in the heart of their territories.

In each of our beautiful regions, our customers, our members, our employees, our athletes from our teams and the general public will be able to take part in this unique event and thus share the emotion of the Games..

(Credits – Paris 2024)

For the future, at the end of the selection campaign for future torchbearers – open from June 1 to September 30, 2023 – the BPCE Group will draw lots for the pre-selected candidates from among the applicants who have submitted an application, and will also send additional information to the organizers of the Games.

Once this internal phase has been completed, the OCOG will study and validate the applications between October and December 2023that said candidacies come from People’s Banks and Savings Banksor through the intermediary of the other Official Sponsor of the Relay, but also through the Territorial Communities, the Sports Movement, without forgetting also since the Club Paris 2024 who will havea dedicated platform from this Thursday to nominate a loved one.

Finally, from the mid-January 2024the OCOG will announce the Olympic torchbearers and establish in fact the continent expected to participate in this celebration of the spirit of the Games from May 8, 2024, date of the flame’s arrival in France from the Old Port from Marseilles (Bouches-du-Rhône).

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