London โwinningโ the right to reduce itself to chaos, and its taxpayers to beggary (beggary, Derb, beggary), for the โhonorโ of hosting sports bureaucrats, foreign politicians and a bunch of people who like running very fast was the best present that Paris could be given. Nevertheless, fans of sour grapes will enjoy the French press this evening. Here, as an example, is the Mayor of Paris in Le Figaro (in French, unsurprisingly).
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Andrew Stuttaford is the editor of National Review's Capital Matters.
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