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Ex-Resistance Olympic torch-bearer lights way

Sprightly Centenarian

At the age of 102, Melanie Berger-Volle will carry the Olympic torch as high as she can, despite her fragile shoulder, to champion the values of friendship between people that she defended during her time with the French Resistance in World War II.

A ”woman in the shadows” during the German occupation (1940-1944), Berger-Volle was thrilled to be chosen to carry the torch as it

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