{"id":33546,"date":"2024-09-28T22:26:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T19:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=33546"},"modified":"2024-09-29T08:28:36","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T05:28:36","slug":"workers-take-down-olympic-rings-from-eiffel-tower-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/28\/workers-take-down-olympic-rings-from-eiffel-tower-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers Take Down Olympic Rings from Eiffel Tower \u2013 for Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
Sudan Events – Agencies<\/strong><\/div>\n
Workers removed the Olympics logo from the Eiffel Tower in the early hours of Friday, returning the beloved monument to its familiar form — but perhaps only temporarily.<\/div>\n
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has promised to build new Olympic rings and return them to the landmark as a tribute to the hugely successful Olympic Games held in the capital during July and August.<\/div>\n
The proposal has polarized opinion in the French capital and has been criticized by descendants of the tower’s designer Gustave Eiffel, as well as conservation groups.<\/div>\n
After initially suggesting the new rings should be permanent, Hidalgo has proposed they remain on the city’s world-renowned symbol until the next Olympics in Los Angeles in 2028.<\/div>\n
Workers operating multiple large cranes removed the 30-tonne steel rings from between the first and second floors of the tower during the early hours of Friday morning.<\/div>\n
They were first installed just under four months ago, on June 7, and will now be melted down and recycled.<\/div>\n
The new rings, which the International Olympic Committee is expected to pay for, would be lighter versions of the originals and less prominent, according to a deputy Paris mayor, Pierre Rabadan.<\/div>\n
“In my opinion, it would be better to put them somewhere else because it’s a Parisian monument and it’s not right that it becomes an advertising medium for an event that is now over,” Hugo Staub, a French tourist at the tower on Friday, told AFP.<\/div>\n
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Culture Minister Rachida Dati, a longtime critic and opponent of Hidalgo, has also cast doubt over the idea, saying the mayor’s proposal would need to respect procedures protecting historic buildings.<\/div>\n
But others felt regret at losing a visual reminder of an enchanted period in Paris and expressed support for the idea of replacements.<\/div>\n
“They were a bit large so it’s better to put small ones that can remain for a few years,” said Gabriel, a French volunteer at the Games, who was at the foot of the tower on Friday. “It would be symbolic and a great souvenir.”<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sudan Events – Agencies Workers removed the Olympics logo from the Eiffel Tower in the early hours of Friday, returning the beloved monument to its familiar form — but perhaps only temporarily. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has promised to build new Olympic rings and return them to the landmark as a tribute to the hugely …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33551,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33546\/revisions\/33551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}