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Article: French president lauds Beijing Paralympics
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- September 18, 2008
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French president lauds Beijing Paralympics
PARIS, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy on
Thursday hosted the French Paralympic delegation and disabled
Chinese athlete Jin Jing at the Elysee Place and said the Beijing
Paralympic Games achieved "a huge success."
The 12-day sports event, which ended Wednesday, is a success for
the international Paralympic movement, Sarkozy told the French
Paralympians and Jin, the wheelchair fencer and Olympic torchbearer
known for protecting the torch from protestors in the Paris leg of
the relay.
He said that as more than 4,000 athletes from nearly 150
countries or regions competed ...