France, Feb. 17 -- Five months on from that balmy summer of love for all things Olympic and Paralympic, the graft goes on in the chill midwinter for Mathieu Hanotin, mayor of Saint-Denis.
The 46-year-old was among several French local government chiefs guiding counterparts from Brisbane and its satellite towns and cities around Olympic sites in Saint-Denis and Saint-Ouen on the northern outskirts of Paris just before the start of the school holidays.
The Australian delegation comprising inter alia the mayors of Brisbane, Logan, the Sunshine Coast and the Scenic Rim, were in Paris for three days gathering facts and touchy-feely niceties to help them organise the Olympic Games in 2032.
Their early morning labours took them to Saint-Denis P...