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‘Bloody warm, innit?’ says man who climbed Eiffel Tower on last day of Olympics (www.theguardian.com)

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A climber scaled the north face of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Sunday, the last day of the Olympics, but was intercepted by police midway up, police said. “At 2.45 pm, an individual was seen climbing the Eiffel Tower,” a police spokesman said. “The police immediately intervened and arrested the individual.”

Videos showed the bare-chested man skirting the Olympic rings as he made his way up without ropes.

In one video, the grinning climber can be heard saying to bystanders in English: “Bloody warm, innit?” as he is escorted off the viewing platform by police.

He's since been named as Louis Davis, a climber and stuntman who previously climbed the Cheesegrater in London.

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