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Léon Marchand is inspiring a little of the French ideal of "fraternité" that may have felt in short supply in the host nation during a time of sharp political division.
His heroics are proving a welcome distraction during the crisis, said Parisians lounging on the grass in one of the city’s parks, watching the sporting action on a big screen.
The tradition of a population galvanising around a hero is as old as the Games itself, according to Philip Barker , editor of the Journal of Olympic History .
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