VIDEO SHOWS: FILE FOOTAGE OF CHARLES COSTE SHOWS: BOIS-COLOMBES, FRANCE (FILE – FEBRUARY 8, 2023) (REUTERS – Access all) 1. AT THE TIME THE OLDEST SURVIVING FRENCH OLYMPIC MEDALLIST NAMED AS TORCH BEARER FOR PARIS 2024 GAMES, CHARLES COSTE, BEING ESCORTED INTO A HALL BY PRESIDENT OF THE PARIS 2024 ORGANISING COMMITTEE TONY ESTANGUET 2. ‘100’ IN CHOCOLATE OVER CAKE 3. CAKE, WITH SPARKLERS, FOR COSTE'S 100 BIRTHDAY 4. GUESTS SINGING HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR COSTE, WHO IS SEATED ON STAGE, WITH ESTANGUET AND BOIS-COLOMBES MAYOR YVES REVILLON STANDING 5. COSTE LOOKING ON 6. VARIOUS OF ESTANGUET GIVING PARIS 2024 T-SHIRT WITH NAME OF COSTE ON IT AND OTHER GIFTS 7. COSTE'S WIFE, YVETTE, APPLAUDING 8. PICTURE OF COSTE WHEN HE WAS YOUNG 9. COSTE ON STAGE 10. COSTE AND ESTANGUET STORY: French cyclist Charles Coste, who had been the world’s oldest living Olympic gold medallist, has died aged 101, French media reported on Sunday (November 2). Coste, who won Olympic gold in track cycling’s team pursuit alongside Pierre Adam, Serge Blusson, and Fernand Decanali, passed away on Thursday. He had been the world’s oldest living Olympic gold medallist following the death of Hungarian artistic gymnast Agnes Keleti at the age of 103 on 2 January 2025. Coste was one of the torchbearers during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics. His record also includes the 1949 Grand Prix des Nations, a 140-km time trial in which he beat Italian Fausto Coppi, a Tour de France and Giro d'Italia champion. (Production: Andy Ragg)
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