On Sunday, Anne Hidalgo received the Olympic flag from the hands of Thomas Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, who himself received it from the governor of Tokyo, Yuriko Koike.
Less than twenty-four hours later in Roissy, when he got off the plane from Japan, the mayor of Paris held it firmly in hand with Tony Estanguet, president of Paris 2024. Also in the company of the Minister for Sports , Roxana Maracineanu.
It is Anne Hidalgo again, after, who chaired with the athletes the ceremony intended to hoist this same flag on the facade of the Town hall.
The Games are over, long live the Games!
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The event which will be held in three years but which will punctuate the news of the French is a source of pride in Paris as well as national.
It is also, of course, a strong political stake for 2022.
“This very sporting summer for the mayor of Paris comes to confirm its important international stature”
, underlines its first deputy, Emmanuel Grégoire.
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