Salma Hayek fulfills her childhood dream and carries the Olympic torch at the Palace of Versailles: “Queen”

As Mexico’s world representative, Salma Hayek was one of those selected to be the Olympic torchbearer in Paris 2024. This Tuesday, just three days before the start of the games, the Oscar nominee for Frida fulfilled a dream, because When she was just a child she was on the verge of becoming an Olympic athlete. The interpreter, furthermore, She is closely linked to France through her marriage to businessman François-Henri Pinault.whom he married in Paris on February 14, 2009. Together they have Valentina Paloma Pinault, who was born in 2007.

The Mexican carried the torch at the Palace of Versailles, being one of the celebrities who participated in the transfer of the famous flame on Tuesday. “Queen Salma Hayek has entered Versailles”they wrote on the games’ official social networks.

Before the transfer and dressed in sportswear for the occasion, she wrote on Instagram: “Getting ready to take part in the Olympic torch relay in Paris. I feel the excitement and unity that the Olympic Games bring”.

The flame has been carried by up to 10,000 people over the past 80 days and has already reached the French capital after starting its journey in Greece, where the games will begin this Friday. A sporting event that Hayek, as a spectator, awaits with great excitement. In a 2017 interview for the program Live Kelly & Ryansaid that Romanian athlete Nadia Comaneci, who was naturalized as an American, had inspired her to take up gymnastics during her childhood.

She was so inspired that she did her best to achieve her dream. After two months of hard training, she was called up to the Mexican team to take part in the Olympics. Salma, who was then 9 years old, did not receive the support of her father. Sami Hayek Dominguez feared that the future star of the big screen would neglect her studies and family life. “My Olympic dream died that day,” she lamented.