The Seine could create a 20-year Olympic legacy - Mayor of Paris
Anne Hidalgo hopes Paris' €1.6bn cleaning operation on the Seine will create an Olympic legacy for the city
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00:00When people sometimes ask me if this is not a parenthesis.
00:07In fact, no, this is not at all a parenthesis.
00:11All of this is the result of 10 years of work.
00:15So this is not a parenthesis.
00:1710 years of work, 15 days plus 15 days of happiness, and maybe 20 years of legacy.
00:26This is what we are living and preparing today.
00:31This is not a parenthesis because the scene that is polluted will remain clean and we will bathe.
00:40The entire population will bathe in the scene, even if many do not believe it.
00:45We have always believed it, but it is not a belief that is not done without work.
00:53It is a belief based on work.