Anne Hidalgo and Tony Estanguet in Seine – Libération

2024-07-17 08:07:09

The mayor of Paris and the president of the organizing committee for the Olympic competition, together with the administrator of the Ile-de-France, Marc Guillaume, dived into the river on Wednesday, the seventeenth of July in the morning.

Jacques Chirac promised it, Anne Hidalgo did it. This Wednesday, July 17 in the morning, the mayor of Paris bathed in the Seine at the office of the President of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (Cojo) Tony Estanguet, nine days before the start of the Games in Paris. If, from the outside, the race for the image can make you laugh, the subject is important for the organizers of the Olympic Games, who have made the river the star of these Games, and its destruction is one of the column of their candidate.

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The promise is finally kept.

After many delays, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, bathed in the Seine on Wednesday around 10 am. pic.twitter.com/YASgJqLzVU

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A stone’s throw from the City Hall, where Marie’s arm is wrapped between the right bank and Île Saint-Louis, the mayor of the host city, President Cojo and the administrator of the Ile-de-France, Marc Guillaume, took the loss. just before 10 o’clock in the morning, and they followed a line of swimmers who were invited for the ceremony. The Minister of Sports and Games of France, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, beat them to the punch by swimming in the Seine on Saturday morning.

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