If you have ever been to Paris, you cannot miss it – and it is very difficult to get over: the Place de Concorde, one of the largest and busiest city squares in the world.
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The likeable, megalomaniac French have built 350×210 metre arenas for skateboarding, BMX, breakdancing and 3×3 basketball. Here our women won gold, celebrated with Dirk Nowitzki and high-fived the Spanish king after the final against Spain.
Did Felipe VI know that he was sitting on bloody ground? It was there, of all places, that revolutionaries beheaded one of his relatives on October 16, 1793.
Spain’s King Felipe cheers on his team at the 3×3 basketball final. Afterwards he congratulated Germany on their victory
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Marie Antoinette, the wife of the French King Louis XVI, who had lost his head in the same place nine months earlier. Marie Antoinette was hated because of her alleged saying: “If people have no bread, let them eat cake…”
October 16, 1793, The body of Marie Antionette lies under the guillotine. A revolutionary shows her head to the masses.
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Later, the revolutionaries happily executed each other. 1,345 people died on the Place de Concorde, the “Place of Concord”.
Now it is the Olympic fairground. Fun, noisy. All competitions are accompanied by continuous commentary in English and French.
When our 3×3 basketball team played, I heard two German words from the roaring stadium reporters: “Schnitzel” and “Blitzkrieg”.
Long live the cliché!
