Host to the world 's most powerful politicians at the summit meeting for the Group of 8 major industrial nations , which opened here on Wednesday night , he had become the victor in the campaign to lure the world 's most prestigious sporting event away from Paris , stealing an enormous march on his rival , President Jacques Chirac , after weeks of French-British vituperation .
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