This photograph shows Olympic Rings on the Eiffel Tower taken from France Televisions set in Trocadero, during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Paris, on July 31, 2024. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP Paris’s mayor said Friday, September 6, that she intended to keep the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower until at least 2028…
The descendants of Gustave Eiffel have opposed plans by the Paris mayor to leave the Olympic rings as a permanent fixture on the French landmark that bears the engineer’s name. The family association said the Eiffel Tower was “not intended as an advertising platform” and that Anne Hidalgo’s announcement that it was for her to…
As much as the French capital reveled in the celebratory air of the Olympics this summer, many are less than thrilled to discover Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo’s plan to keep the iconic Olympic rings on France’s most iconic monument even after the Games. “The decision is up to me, and I have the agreement of…
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has triggered a heated debate by saying she wants to keep the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower after the summer Games are over. “The decision is up to me, and I have the agreement of the IOC [International Olympic Committee],” she told the Ouest-France newspaper over the weekend. “So yes,…
