Who would have thought that one day Zinedine Zidane would be stuck in a broken-down subway? Surely not him. And yet, this is how the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games began.
In a video featuring him with his friend Jamel Debbouze, the 1998 world champion seized the Olympic flame in a deserted Stade de France before taking it into the underground tunnels of the RATP.
Once boarded a subway car… Zidane, Olympic torch in hand, found himself stuck after a few meters, in a broken-down carriage and simply illuminated by his precious. The French legend would end up passing on the totem to a group of children, with the mission of bringing it back to the capital for the opening of the Games.
A fun and unexpected production, not necessarily to the advantage of the RATP, but which was indeed filmed in collaboration with the Parisian transport network, as its spokesperson, Jimmy Brun, seems to confirm on X (formerly Twitter). The latter also reveals that number 10 was taking the capital’s metro “for the first time” in his life.
Omnipresent during this opening ceremony, Zinedine Zidane carried the Olympic flame twice, at its beginning through this incredible video for its first time – and probably its last – in the capital’s metro, and at the end on the Place du Trocadéro where he passed it to Rafael Nadal to complete the relay.
