Team USA fan and hugely popular rapper Snoop Dogg will be a torchbearer of the Olympic flame on its final stretch before the 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.
The 52-year-old, who was fitted for a Team USA podium outfit on Monday, will carry the torch through Saint-Denis, the underprivileged northern Paris suburb home of the Stade de France Olympic Stadium, town mayor Mathieu Hanotin said on social media.
In a busy week of sporting collaboration for Snoop Dogg, the chart-topper featured in a post shared with Team USA while wearing a t-shirt showing star sprinter Noah Lyles, who he called “the goat” (greatest of all time).
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Snoop Dogg: Lyles ‘the goat’
“Make sure you get the goat,” Snoop Dogg told a photographer in the clip. “I’m official like a referee with a whistle”.
Thrilled six-time junior world champion fencer Lauren Scruggs could not hide her disbelief when she saw Snoop Dogg at the team’s base, where he posed with athletes.
“I didn’t realise,” she said as she embraced the artist, while Team USA described the 21-year-old as “shook”. “I was like, ‘who is this?'”
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Snoop Dogg Olympics support
A particular enthusiast for American football, Snoop Dogg was born in Los Angeles, where the Games will take place for a third time in 2028.
He ran 200m at Team USA’s 2024 Olympic trials, seeming satisfied as he applauded after crossing the finishing line in Oregon and adding: “34.44 [seconds] for a 52-year-old? Ain’t bad.”
Lyles is a three-time world champion at the distance, setting the American record of 19.31 seconds in 2022.
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NBC ‘fun’ for Snoop Dogg
NBC will be using Snoop Dogg for its primetime coverage of the 2024 Summer Olympics. “We’re here,” he told the broadcaster on social media after arriving in Paris. “Thanks for showing me the spot. This was fun today.”
The torch began its route from Greece in April and arrived in Marseille on May 8 on the first leg of its journey through France to the Eiffel Tower.
French actress Laetitia Casta and rapper MC Solaar will join Snoop Dogg in Saint-Denis. The opening ceremony takes place at 7.30pm local time (1.30pm ET) on Friday.
