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07-05-2005
All of the delegation in Singapore
The President Jacques Chirac and the Great French Sport Champions arrived in Singapore. Among them, Marie-Jo Pérec, Tony Parker and Laura flessel joined the Paris 2012 team, a day before the final vote of the IOC.
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| Jacques Chirac is welcomed at the Raffle Hôtel by Bertrand Delanoë. (© AFP - Paris 2012) |
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Arriving at the Singapore Airport, the basketball player Tony Parker, San Antonio Spurs key player, declared "We are here to show that, from A to
Z, the bid has been associated with Sportsmen and women. On their side, the athlete
Marie-José Perec and the swordwoman Laura Flessel compared this crucial rendez
vous for Paris 2012 to "a great competition": "We think about it all the time,
we cannot sleep, we just cannot wait".
Today, The French President Jacques Chirac joinded the French Sportsmen and women in Singapore. Together with Bertrand Delanoë, Paris Mayor and the
Paris 2012 President, Jean-François Lamour, Minister for Youth, Sports and Associative
life, and Henri Sérandour, President of the CNOSF, who will go tomorrow for the
final presentation of the Paris bid in front of the IOC members.
The Day before the vote which will decide the host city for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Paris 2012 hopes, through a united delegation,
representative of the entire French society, to convince the Olympic family that
this is a unanimous nation who wants the honor of organizing the XXXth Olympiad. |
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