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Gay Games Moving To Paris In 2018

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After a successful run in Cleveland, Ohio, this year, the Gay Games will travel across the Atlantic to Paris, France, when they return in 2018.

"We have spent such a magic week," Paris 2018 co-president Manuel Picaud said during the closing ceremony for this year’s games. "Cleveland and Akron have been so smiling, so welcoming, so open-minded. Everybody has been great. We have learned a lot from these Games. Thank you all."

The Games 9 drew around 9,000 participants to Cleveland over the past week, reports The Plain Dealer. This event's highlights included a record-breaking performance by 99-year-old Ida Keeling in the 100 meters race. The games started in 1982 and have previously been held in Germany, Canada and Australia. The games have been hosted in New York and Chicago as well.

Paris organizers hope the Games 10 will help ease some of the homophobic attitudes present in European sports. “They feel there is a lot of work still to be done, even in places like Paris. While we look at Europe as incredibly inclusive, a lot of their sports are behind our sports. European soccer is desperately racist and homophobic,” Outsports.com reporter Cyd Zeigler told WBUR.

He continued, “They believe the cultural impact and political impact in sports and politics that we can have there as a group can be very powerful.”

h/t: The Plain Dealer

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