Eiffel family will fight Olympic rings staying on Paris tower

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo plans to keep the massive multicolored rings that were attached to the "Dame de Fer" ("Iron Lady") for the Paris Olympics until at least 2028, when the next Games will be held in Los Angeles.

The family of Gustave Eiffel has a valid point. Those rings don’t really belong on the graceful “Iron Lady.”

At the longest, keep them until 2028.

Aww, they look fine. Just leave them for a few more years. They'll be quite memorable for those who visit till '28 since it clearly shows when they visited in the snapshots.

Eiffzl Towzr is not supposed to have any lin with Olympic games.

It was just support for the rings.

I imagine it is like a tatoo on your body to mean something at a certain moment then one realizes time is over and it should be removed.

Olympic games are over after the flame goes out, and so rings shall be removed in 2024.

Hidalgo thinks the Eiffel tower is her toy and that she could show off longer.

Get them off it. The silly circus is over.

Three years ago, the same rings were on a famously rusty barge sitting in Tokyo bay or one of the rivers. Perhaps Koike should have kept it.

It's seasonal and not part of the Eiffel tower. Just bring down your Christmas decor after Christmas.

There must be plenty of places where these can be located that might even enhance the area. When I saw the Eiffel Tower I was in awe of its size and beauty. Move the rings. Keep the the tower and its artistic construction pure. Paris is a big enough place for some other place to put the rings.

The rings have become a symbol of corruption. Get them off the Eiffel tower.

Tawdry “Olympic” rings. Hypocrisy, greed and corruption symbolized.