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They also had significant labour law exemptions: another law that they introduced. Interestingly enough, they have a sports law in place. This was additional and very specific to the need to host the Olympic Games. They had hypersensitive trademarking alterations to the French sports code to grant the IOC absolute ownership of all Olympic properties. These were debated at length; they needed parliamentary time and that was regarded as important for the IOC to grant the right to Paris to host those Games.