{"id":62,"date":"2021-08-12T23:49:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T14:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmhub.cafe24.com\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2021-08-12T23:53:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T14:53:16","slug":"olympic-flag-arrives-in-paris-ahead-of-2024-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmhub.cafe24.com\/blog\/olympic-flag-arrives-in-paris-ahead-of-2024-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic flag arrives in Paris ahead of 2024 Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mayor Anne Hidalgo returned to the French capital on Monday with\u00a0the Olympic flag from Tokyo ahead of Paris&#8217;s turn to host the Games in 2024.ADVERTISING<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo brandished the Olympic flag after disembarking from the Air France flight that brought\u00a0many of France\u2019s Olympic medalists back to\u00a0Charles de Gaulle airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hidalgo, who&nbsp;formally received the flag Sunday during the Tokyo closing ceremony from International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, told reporters&nbsp;the flag \u201cis the symbol that now, really, the Paris Games are coming\u201d, adding:&nbsp;They will be \u201cvery positive for our country\u201d.Paris &#8216;will be ready&#8217;, says Mayor Hidalgo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/73d45e50-f94a-11eb-b72b-005056a90284\/w:900\/p:16x9\/EN_20210809_213606_213618_CS.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>She said the Tokyo Games were \u201corganised in very difficult conditions\u201d because of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>French basketball star Evan Fournier, whose team won silver in Tokyo, told FRANCE 24 that \u201cthe [Olympic] village felt like normal to be honest; there were a lot of athletes talking to each other and not as many restrictions as I thought\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s.france24.com\/media\/display\/213d739c-f94b-11eb-a981-005056bf30b7\/w:900\/p:16x9\/EN_20210809_213629_213915_CS.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>French organisers will stay in touch with Japanese counterparts to prepare for the Paris Games, including on security issues, Hidalgo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Olympic flag was raised at Paris City Hall later on Monday. A celebration then took place at Trocad\u00e9ro square, which overlooks the Eiffel Tower, where people welcomed the French medalists home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>(FRANCE 24 with AFP)<\/em><br>https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/sport\/20210809-olympic-flag-arrives-in-paris-ahead-of-2024-games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nMayor Anne Hidalgo returned to the French capital on Monday with\u00a0the Olympic flag from Tokyo ahead of Paris&#8217;s turn to host the Games in 2024.ADVERTISING Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo brandished the Olympic&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dmhub.cafe24.com\/blog\/olympic-flag-arrives-in-paris-ahead-of-2024-games\/\" class=\"link-more\" aria-label=\"Continue reading Olympic flag arrives in Paris ahead of 2024 Games\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","entry","entry-type-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmhub.cafe24.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmhub.cafe24.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmhub.cafe24.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmhub.cafe24.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmhub.cafe24.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dmhub.cafe24.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/dmhub.cafe24.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmhub.cafe24.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmhub.cafe24.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmhub.cafe24.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmhub.cafe24.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}