Revealed: Team GB’s flagbearers for the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony

Team GB have selected their flagbearers for the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics which is due to take place on Friday. 

While the Games have already begun, with rugby sevens and football both kicking-off on Wednesday, the official opening will commence at 7.30pm local time (6.30pm GMT) and will be held on the River Seine. 

It will be a historic event for the Games, with this being the first time an Opening Ceremony will take place outside of a stadium. Athletes are due to be escorted down the iconic city’s main artery and past it’s world-renowned landmark, the Eiffel Tower.

Carrying the flag for the ceremony is considered a huge honour and the two athletes selected will join a list of British Olympic greats to have also led the team at the ceremony. 

Some of those names include Sir Chris Hoy, Katie Howey, Andy Murray and Sir Matthew Pinsent.  

The Opening Ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics is due to take place on Friday evening

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

It was revealed on Wednesday that Tom Daley and Helen Glover are the two athletes who have been selected as Great Britain’s flagbearers for Friday’s unique 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 part of a flotilla procession down the River Seine.

‘To be asked to be flag bearer is one of the greatest honours in my career,’ said 30-year-old Daley, who is competing in his fifth Games. 

‘If my dad was around now, he would be so incredibly proud. He always said that you would know you have cemented your Olympic legacy if you are asked to be a flagbearer.’

Glover, 38, who is rowing in her fourth Olympics, added: ‘This is probably the biggest honour of my life. 

‘I still pinch myself that I am an Olympian, let alone being a flag bearer and going down in history.’

Daley and Glover were invited to carry the flag at a team reception at the British Embassy in Paris last night, which was attended by Princess Anne and Mick Jagger.

Helen Glover (left) and Tom Daley (right) are the two athletes who have been selected as Great Britain’s flagbearers for Friday’s Paris Olympics opening ceremony

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

Glover, meanwhile, is rowing in her fourth Olympics, having won gold in the coxless pair at both London 2012 and Rio 2016 

The pair are set to join an illustrious group of athletes who have also carried the British flag at the Olympic Games

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

He has won four Olympic medals – one gold and three bronzes – and competes in the 10-metre synchronised platform event with Noah Williams on Monday.

Glover, meanwhile, is rowing in her fourth Olympics, having won gold in the coxless pair at both London 2012 and Rio 2016.

She is part of the coxless four in Paris and is looking to become the first British mother to win a rowing medal.

Glover has three children – six-year-old son Logan and four-year-old twins Kit and Bo. 

Daley (right) said being asked to be a flag bearer was one of the ‘greatest honours of his career’

Sir Chris Hoy led Great Britain out at the 2012 London Olympics Opening Ceremony

The pair are set to join their fellow Team GB athletes on a boat which will escort them down the River Seine. 

They will then disembark and carry the flag to La Place du Trocadero, opposite the Eiffel Tower, where the official opening will take place.