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French President of the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics Organising Committee Tony Estanguet carries the Olympic flame on board French 19th-century three-masted barque Belem to begin its journey to France at the Piraeus port, near Athens, a day after Greece handed over the torch of the 2024 Games to Paris organizers.
“We are now in the final phase… I want us to respect this major democratic moment and we need to stay in our place so that French people can enjoy these Games which they can’t wait to see,” he told reporters during a visit to the Olympic village.The Games were intended to “demonstrate the audacity and the best of what our country has to offer the world… to make people proud of what the country is capable of organising. There’s also a desire to bring French people together,” he said.
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