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"Ken Livingstone, hopes the Grand Départ will be held there soon after the 2012 Olympic Games. "We hope to win the right to do it in 2013, 2014, something like that," he said. Prudhomme would not be drawn: "Ken Livingstone said he would ask again after a 'respectable interval' and I will say the same.""

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