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International Olympic Committee:  International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach hailed next year's Olympic Games in Paris as "the Games of a new era".

Bach made the remarks during an exclusive interview with Xinhua, a day before he is scheduled to attend the opening ceremony of the Hangzhou Asian Games, reports Xinhua.

Paris 2024 will be "the first Olympic Games which has been planned from the very beginning and will be delivered to the very end according to the Olympic Agenda 2020 of the IOC," Bach noted.