When: Saturday, August 4th, 2018
San Francisco to Paris
Following the tradition, the rainbow flag, torch-bearer of the LGBT spirit, will be passed to Paris in 2018 after a great course, enrolling in the continuity of this transmission since the origin of the Gay Games in 1982 in San Francisco. By asking Front Runners (FR) International, the Rainbow flag will be raised by local associations throughout the world. Thus it will be for FR San Francisco to begin this movement by passing the "torch" to the host city of the 1986 Gay Games (New York). The NYC FR will then receive this flag to pass it to the next host city and so on. The route created will be held from 2014 summer, year of the Gay Games in Cleveland.
Rainbow Run in Paris
At the end of the journey of the Rainbow flag, it will have to travel the French capital during the Rainbow Run. An introductory Event for the 2018 Gay Games in Paris, it will happen at the heart of the city, before the opening ceremony at the Stade Jean Bouin. To maximize visibility, the Rainbow run will be organized in collaboration with several sports associations of the FSGL and a new way since it will form a multi-sports relay. Indeed, rowers, cyclists and runners, all participants and allof the Gay Games to pass the torch during the whole morning. The advantage of this multi-sport relay is to unite teams from "Sailing and Cruising in Liberty", the "Paris of Dderailleurs" and "Front runners Paris" around a common cause: the memory of sportsmen and died of AIDS and breast cancer.
The course will begin from be between the Parc de la Villette in the north-east of Paris tilland the Hotel de Ville (fig.2) by taking first the waterway channel Ourcq and the Bassin de la Villette (19th arrondissement district of Paris) and the cycle track housing the canal Saint-Martin (10th district) to the boulevard Richard-Lenoir (Paris 11th district) and finally the road which joins the Seine to Place de la Bastille and docks right bank to the Town Hall (11th and 4th arrondissement).
