Revealed: Workforce GB’s flagbearers for the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony – as two gold medal winners are set to hitch a number of British greats to have been given the honour

Workforce GB have chosen their flagbearers for the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics which is because of happen on Friday. 

Whereas the Video games have already begun, with rugby sevens and soccer each kicking-off on Wednesday, the official opening will begin at 7.30pm native time (6.30pm GMT) and can be held on the River Seine. 

Will probably be a historic occasion for the Video games, with this being the primary time an Opening Ceremony will happen outdoors of a stadium. Athletes are on account of be escorted down the enduring metropolis’s principal artery and previous it is world-renowned landmark, the Eiffel Tower.

Carrying the flag for the ceremony is taken into account an enormous honour and the 2 athletes chosen will be part of a listing of British Olympic greats to have additionally led the staff on the ceremony. 

A few of these names embody Sir Chris Hoy, Katie Howey, Andy Murray and Sir Matthew Pinsent.  

Athletes from around the globe are set to be escorted alongside the River Seine on a procession of boats, in what can be a historic first for the Olympic Opening Ceremony

It was revealed on Wednesday that Tom Daley and Helen Glover are the 2 athletes who’ve been chosen as Nice Britain’s flagbearers for Friday’s distinctive Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony.

The diver and rower – who boast three Olympic gold medals between them – will carry the Union Flag on the British boat as a part of a flotilla procession down the River Seine.

‘To be requested to be flag bearer is likely one of the biggest honours in my profession,’ mentioned 30-year-old Daley, who’s competing in his fifth Video games. 

‘If my dad was round now, he can be so extremely proud. He at all times mentioned that you’d know you may have cemented your Olympic legacy if you’re requested to be a flagbearer.’

Glover, 38, who’s rowing in her fourth Olympics, added: ‘That is most likely the most important honour of my life. 

‘I nonetheless pinch myself that I’m an Olympian, not to mention being a flag bearer and happening in historical past.’

Daley and Glover had been invited to hold the flag at a staff reception on the British Embassy in Paris final night time, which was attended by Princess Anne and Mick Jagger.

Helen Glover (left) and Tom Daley (proper) are the 2 athletes who’ve been chosen as Nice Britain’s flagbearers for Friday’s Paris Olympics opening ceremony

Daley is competing in his fifth Video games, having made his debut at Beijing 2008 aged 14

Glover, in the meantime, is rowing in her fourth Olympics, having gained gold within the coxless pair at each London 2012 and Rio 2016 

The pair are set to hitch an illustrious group of athletes who’ve additionally carried the British flag on the Olympic Video games

Daley is competing in his fifth Video games, having made his debut at Beijing 2008 aged 14.

He has gained 4 Olympic medals – one gold and three bronzes – and competes within the 10-metre synchronised platform occasion with Noah Williams on Monday.

Glover, in the meantime, is rowing in her fourth Olympics, having gained gold within the coxless pair at each London 2012 and Rio 2016.

She is a part of the coxless 4 in Paris and is trying to develop into the primary British mom to win a rowing medal.

Glover has three youngsters – six-year-old son Logan and four-year-old twins Package and Bo. 

Daley (proper) mentioned being requested to be a flag bearer was one of many ‘biggest honours of his profession’

Sir Chris Hoy led Nice Britain out on the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony

The pair are set to hitch their fellow Workforce GB athletes on a ship which is able to escort them down the River Seine. 

They are going to then disembark and carry the flag to La Place du Trocadero, reverse the Eiffel Tower, the place the official opening will happen.