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Paris’s socialist mayor has blasted the “extreme right” in an extraordinary English-language rant against criticism of her Olympics organising. Against her press officer’s best wishes, Anne Hidalgo launched into the f-word-laden tirade as the Games appeared to exceed pre-event expectations – marred, in particular, by concerns over athletes swimming in the River Seine. The Spanish-born mayor, 65, fired off expletives at right-wing critics in an interview with French outlet Le Monde, saying: “F*** reactionaries, f*** the extreme right, f*** all those who want to shut us in a war of everyone agai…

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