Tour de France?: International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach (right) and French canoe champion and co-president of the Paris candidacy for the 2024 Olympics Tony Estanguet ride bicycles through the streets of Paris on Oct 2. — Reuters
PARIS: Paris is the hot favourite to win the right to host the 2024 Olympics Games but, having fallen at the final hurdle before, knows the hardest part is yet to come – convincing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) its bid is the strongest.
In July 2005 in Singapore, London pipped an over-confident Paris, which had lost out to Beijing for the 2008 Games, to win the right to stage the 2012 Summer Olympics, triggering tears in the French camp when the vote results were announced.
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