evidence: ‘Our way of showing resistance’: Olympians raise Palestinian flag at Paris Games [...] "France, like many European countries, still doesn’t see Palestine as a country," he told FRANCE 24. "But we have a lane here at the Paris Olympics." [...] The Palestinian athletes have been riding a wave of popular sympathy since their arrival at Charles de Gaulle airport on the eve of the Games. They walked through a sea of Palestinian flags at the Paris hub and were greeted with gifts of food and roses.