Revealed: Team GB’s flagbearers for the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony – as two gold medal winners are set to join a host of British greats to have been given the honour

Team GB have selected the flag bearers for the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, which will take place on Friday.

The Games have already started, with rugby sevens and football both starting on Wednesday, but the official opening will take place at 7.30pm local time (6.30pm GMT) on the River Seine.

It will be a historic event for the Games, as this will be the first time that an opening ceremony will be held outside a stadium, with athletes being guided through the city’s iconic artery and past the world-famous monument, the Eiffel Tower.

Carrying the flag at the ceremony is seen as a great honour and the two selected athletes join the list of British Olympic greats who have also led the team at the ceremony.

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

Athletes from around the world will be escorted in a procession of boats down the River Seine, in what will be a historic first for the Olympic Opening Ceremony.

It was announced on Wednesday that Tom Daley and Helen Glover have been selected as the two athletes to serve as Great Britain’s flag bearers for the unique Paris 2024 opening ceremony on Friday.

The diver and the rower, who have three Olympic gold medals to their name between them, will carry the Union Flag on the British boat as part of a flotilla procession along the River Seine.

“Being asked to carry the flag is one of the greatest honors of my career,” said the 30-year-old Daley, who is competing in his fifth Games.

“If my father were alive today, he would be so incredibly proud. He always said that you know you have established your Olympic legacy when you are asked to be a flag bearer.”

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

“I still have to pinch myself when I think I’m an Olympian, let alone a flag bearer and making history.”

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

Helen Glover (left) and Tom Daley (right) are the two athletes selected as Great Britain’s flag bearers for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris on Friday.

Daley is competing in his fifth Games, having made his debut in Beijing 2008 at the age of 14

Glover is now rowing at the Olympic Games for the fourth time, having won gold in the coxless pair at both London 2012 and Rio 2016.

The pair will 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 in Beijing in 2008 at the age of 14.

He has won four Olympic medals – one gold and three bronze – and will compete in the 10-meter synchro platform event with Noah Williams on Monday.

Glover is now rowing at the Olympic Games for the fourth time, after winning gold in the coxless pair event at London 2012 and Rio 2016.

She is part of the coxless four in Paris and is aiming 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 carry the flag was one of the “greatest tributes of his career”

Sir Chris Hoy led Great Britain to the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics

The duo will join their Team GB teammates on a boat that will take them across the Seine.

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