Organisers of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris will aim to set a world record when they try to fly a football pitch-sized flag off the Eiffel Tower as the Olympics are handed over to them from Tokyo tomorrow.
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo will be given the Olympic flag by International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach during the Tokyo 2020 closing ceremony.
And at the same time, the huge flag will be unfurled in the French capital.
BBC News reports it has not been revealed which flag will be flown.
The world record for the biggest flag ever flown is 2,448.56 m², set in the United Arab Emirates in 2017, and if the Paris flag is indeed around the size of a football pitch that would make it around 7,000m².
The closing ceremony of the Olympic Games starts at 11pm tomorrow.
[Source: BBC]
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