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Eiffel family oppose plan to keep Olympic rings on tower
The Guardian
|September 03, 2024
The descendants of Gustave Eiffel have opposed plans by the Paris mayor to leave the Olympic rings as a permanent fixture on the landmark that bears the engineer's name.
They said the Eiffel Tower was "not intended as an advertising platform" and Anne Hidalgo's announcement that it was for her to decide was "incomprehensible".
Hidalgo declared at the weekend that the rings would stay. "As mayor of Paris, the decision is mine," she said in an interview with the OuestFrance regional newspaper. "I want the spirit of celebration to remain. I'm delighted that the French have fallen in love with Paris again, after 10 years of bashing and telling us that it [the Olympic Games] was going to be hell."
The 30-tonne, 29 x 13-metre ring structure is too heavy to be kept permanently on the tower, but Hidalgo said she envisaged replacing it with a lighter replica "as soon as possible".
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