PARIS (AP) — Charles Coste, the world’s oldest living Olympian and a cycling champion, has died. He was 101.

The French presidency said in a statement on Tuesday that Coste died last Thursday.

Coste won the team pursuit gold medal at the 1948 Olympic Games in London at the famed Herne Hill velodrome. He returned to the spotlight last year as the second-to-last bearer of the Olympic flame for the 2024 Paris Games.

FILE - Charles Coste, left, passes the flame to Teddy Riner and Marie-Jose Perec in Paris, France, during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 26, 2024. (David Goldman | AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Emmanuel Macron’s office said Coste was “until his final breath, the tireless messenger of a certain idea of sport.”

Coste moved the Paris crowd as he

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