The 2024 Paris Olympics haven’t relatively completed but with one closing parade of athletes at the Champs Elysées on Saturday, September 14.
This surprisingly past due further rite, ‘The Parade of Champions’, used to be inexplicably added on the behest of President Emmanuel Macron. A complete of 182 French Olympic representatives, 78 of whom had been medalists, in addition to 137 Paralympic athletes participated within the Parade of Champions. A hoop-shaped platform across the Arc de Triomphe monument marked the fruits of the parade’s course down the enduring side road within the French capital, which drew some 70,000 Parisians.
The development used to be attended through Michel Barnier, the brand new top minister, and President Emmanuel Macron. Macron spoke on the rite and award state honours to French Olympians, Judo medal winner, Teddy Riner, and swimmer Leon Marchand.
Macron speaks of ‘nationwide solidarity’ led to through Olympics
Macron’s glorification of the Olympic spirit, which he unironically said had led to ‘nationwide solidarity,’ is about towards the stark political truth of a sharply divided society that adopted the July parliamentary elections and the Olympics which led to rows over the organic intercourse of a few athletes.
Macron lately named Barnier, the previous Brexit negotiator for the Ecu Union, to steer a brand new govt previous in September according to a hung parliament, expanding social unrest, and mounting nationwide debt.
The naming of right-wing Barnier as PM infuriated the left-wing coalition that secured nearly all of seats within the Nationwide Meeting, however no longer sufficient to rule by itself. In consequence, no birthday celebration used to be ready to safe a majority in France’s influential decrease parliamentary chamber.