French President Francois Hollande has questioned the need for so many corporate seats at the London Olympics, saying a French version would be interested in ‘gold, not money’. Expressing surprise at the number of empty seats at the Games, Hollande suggested that corporate clients were simply not turning up.

Not on our watch: French President Francois Hollande has said that if France got the 2024 Olympics, there would not be as many empty seats. Pic/AFP