The Tokyo Olympics are barely over when we are already thinking of the next ones, in Paris in 2024. In a festive atmosphere, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, received the Olympic flag on the tarmac at Roissy airport Monday afternoon.
The sportsmen returned from Japan then marched in the capital.
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The Tokyo Olympics ended on Monday.
The closing was marked by a record audience: more than 50 million French people, or 87% of viewers, watched the Olympics for at least one minute this year.
Rather auspicious results for the next Games, in Paris in 2024. The Olympic flag has already arrived in the capital, Monday, at the beginning of the afternoon.
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The flag, nearly two meters long, has finally arrived.
Anne Hidalgo brandished it when exiting the plane on the tarmac at Roissy airport.
The entire Olympic delegation then went to the town hall where the flag was proudly hoisted by the mayor of Paris.
"We are very happy. It's a huge emotion," slips Anne Hidalgo, between the applause.
"One hundred years after the flag flies, it is again hoisted in front of the town hall and on Paris. I mean to tell you, the emotion is immense and we will be at the rendezvous of our history", she continues.
"It's nice to see the craze"
The mayor of Paris was surrounded by sportsmen who had just arrived from Tokyo.
Among them, the men's basketball team which returned from the Olympic Games with a silver medal.
"It's nice to see the enthusiasm and to find Paris, to find France after a long journey. We are happy to come back and even more happy to come back with something around our neck," says pivot Rudy Gobert.
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The French delegation then headed for the Trocadéro.
The public was eagerly waiting to finally see the athletes up close, after days of applauding them in front of their television sets.