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French apathy and cost concerns dampen mayors’ bid to stoke Games fervour

La Baule-Escoublac, France Reuters When a group of mayors paid tens of thousands of euros each to bring the Olympic torch to their towns along France’s Atlantic coast, a row erupted over whether the cost represented value for money at a time when public spending is under pressure. Franck Louvrier, the conservative mayor of La […]