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Eiffel's descendants call for Olympic rings to be moved to LA

Gustave Eiffel Olympics Paris the Eiffel Tower Anne Hidalgo Tower Los Angeles
Olympic Rings on the Eiffel Tower taken from France Televisions set in Trocadero, during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Paris, on July 31, 2024. The Paris mayor's plan to preserve the "historic moment" of the Olympic and Paralympic Games has raised an outcry from heritage conservationists and opponents of Anne Hidalgo. AFP - STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN

The descendants of Gustave Eiffel – who are opposed to maintaining the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower until at least 2028 as the Mayor of Paris wishes – have proposed that the City could ‘symbolically transfer’ them to Los Angeles between now and the end of 2024.

In a press release issued on Sunday, the Association of Descendants of Gustave Eiffel (Adge) reaffirmed its "unfavourable position" to the "definitive perpetuation of the rings ... beyond the Olympic year 2024, with no clear date announced for their removal".

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