{"id":485558,"date":"2024-07-23T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485558"},"modified":"2024-07-23T13:51:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T17:51:33","slug":"rapper-snoop-dogg-to-carry-olympic-flame-in-paris-games-torch-relay","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rapper-snoop-dogg-to-carry-olympic-flame-in-paris-games-torch-relay\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Snoop Dogg to carry Olympic Flame in Paris Games torch relay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American rapper Snoop Dogg will be among the torchbearers carrying the Olympic flame during the final stretch before the opening ceremony of the Paris Games on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The 52-year-old artist will bear the torch through the streets of Saint-Denis, the northern Paris suburb that hosts the Stade de France Olympic Stadium, as announced by Saint-Denis mayor Mathieu Hanotin on the social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Saint Denis: last step before the Eiffel Tower. An international cast @SnoopDogg for the last stretch of the Olympic Flame,&#8221; Hanotin wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Roughly 10,500 athletic superstars are at Paris 2024 \u2014 but celebrities too.<\/p>\n<p>Snoop Dog to take part carrying the Olympic torch in its final stages before the Opening Ceremony, where C\u00e9line Dion may sing.<\/p>\n<p>Snoop Dog will also be an analyst in the U.S. coverage on NBC Sports. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zpdAziKejX\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/zpdAziKejX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ben Steiner (@BenSteiner00) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenSteiner00\/status\/1815775250165948889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Snoop Dogg, who is also contributing to NBC Primetime&#8217;s coverage of the Games, is widely recognized in the sports community for his Snoop Youth Football League, with its championship game known as the &#8220;Snooper Bowl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other notable torchbearers in Saint-Denis on Friday include French actress Laetitia Casta and French rapper MC Solaar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American rapper Snoop Dogg will be among the torchbearers carrying the Olympic flame during the final stretch before the opening ceremony of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":485559,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,17669],"news_category":[20292],"gn_keywords":[18357,19982],"acf":{"announce":"The 52-year-old artist will bear the torch through the streets of Saint-Denis","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485560,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485558\/revisions\/485560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485558"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485558"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}