Majority of French back Paris Olympic bid - poll


  • Tennis
  • Sunday, 25 Jun 2017

French President Emmanuel Macron (C) departs in a security boat on the Seine River in Paris, France, June 24, 2017. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier

PARIS (Reuters) - Some 73 percent of people in France support Paris's bid to host the 2024 Olympics, a poll showed on Sunday.

Some 30 percent of those polled said they fully backed the idea while 43 percent said they were favourable towards it, while 26 percent opposed it, the poll said.

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