The 2024 Paris Olympics haven’t fairly completed but with one final parade of athletes on the Champs Elysées on Saturday, September 14.
This unusually late further ceremony, ‘The Parade of Champions’, was inexplicably added on the behest of President Emmanuel Macron. A complete of 182 French Olympic representatives, 78 of whom have 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 end result of the parade’s route down the long-lasting boulevard within the French capital, which drew some 70,000 Parisians.
The occasion was attended by Michel Barnier, the brand new prime minister, and President Emmanuel Macron. Macron spoke on the ceremony and award state honours to French Olympians, Judo medal winner, Teddy Riner, and swimmer Leon Marchand.
Macron speaks of ‘nationwide concord’ led to by Olympics
Macron’s glorification of the Olympic spirit, which he unironically acknowledged had resulted in ‘nationwide concord,’ is about in opposition to the stark political actuality of a sharply divided society that adopted the July parliamentary elections and the Olympics which resulted in rows over the organic intercourse of some athletes.
Macron just lately named Barnier, the previous Brexit negotiator for the European Union, to steer a brand new authorities earlier in September in response to a hung parliament, growing 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 not sufficient to rule by itself. Because of this, no get together was in a position to safe a majority in France’s influential decrease parliamentary chamber.