Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Tennis Champs


Tennis Champs
Originally uploaded by rhino75.

The Champs Elysées (aka "the most beautiful avenue in the world") was closed off to traffic on Sunday and turned into a giant sports ground. The aim: to try and persuade the International Olympic Committee that Paris should be selected as the venue for the 2012 games. And I was there!! Albeit by accident. I thought it was brilliantly Parisian: the scale of the thing was really impressive, they even had showjumping down at one end of the avenue; at the same time, from an organisational point of view, it was a bit of a shambles as no-one really seemed to know what there was to see and so it was all a bit hit-and-miss, and there were too many people milling around aimlessly for you to actually try and make your way anywhere. Looked great though.

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