French President Emmanuel Macron exchanged hits with tennis players on an outdoor court set up on a Paris bridge on Saturday, to promote the capital's bid for the 2024 Olympics.
Macron visited tennis players practicing on the Alexandre III bridge on Saturday and, at one point, grabbed a racket to play a few points in a suit.
Then he took off his jacket and sat on a wheelchair to play para-tennis. He also went to a floating boxing ring set up on the Seine River.
In shirt sleeves, he put on blue gloves and exchanged friendly punches with a young boxer.
Paris is competing against Los Angeles to host the games, and bid organizers have turned some of the city's famous landmarks over to sports during a two-day Olympic festival.
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