As thousands of athletes, spectators and officials descend on Paris for next Friday’s opening of the Paris Olympics, Nicolas Guilloteau dreams that he can achieve something unexpected and special that the world will remember for the ages, a “magical moment”.
His Olympic discipline is not the parallel bars, the javelin or the 100 metres, however. If the 41-year-old Frenchman is selected from a shortlist, he will perform with two turntables and a crate of vinyl – not as an athlete but under his nom de plume DJ One Up, as one of the disc jockeys providing a soundtrack for the breakdancers making their Olympic debut this year.
