Ciryl Gane goes to be an Olympic torchbearer.
The 2024 Olympic Video games happen this summer season in Paris, and as per custom, the Olympic flame will go on a relay by the nation of the host nation within the lead-up to the opening ceremony. Because the UFC’s high French fighter, Gane has been chosen to function one of many honorary torchbearers for the relay, “Bon Gamin” revealed on his Instagram on Saturday.
“Proud to hold the flame
“Hoping to see MMA as an Olympic occasion someday
“Meet on June 4 at La Roche-sur-Yon”
The 2024 Olympic Torch Relay started on Thursday, Could 9, in Marseille and can spend the following 11 weeks touring by France till the beginning of the Olympic Video games on July 26. Practically 10,000 athletes, volunteers, and different luminaries will function torchbearers this 12 months, with every individual carrying the Olympic flame a mean of 200 meters. Gane will function a torch bearer through the twenty fourth stage of the relay because the flame strikes from the Deux-Sèvres area to Les Sables-d’Olonne.
Gane is a former interim UFC heavyweight champion and has twice headlined UFC occasions in Paris, together with his most up-to-date combat, a TKO win over Serghei Spivac this previous September.
