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Parisians like me love to grumble about the Olympics – but could we be about to enjoy them?
If I were a city, I almost certainly would not want to host the Olympics. So my thought last summer was that I would put my Paris apartment on Airbnb for an outrageous sum of money and leave the city – until friends from the US persuaded me to put them up …