it was actually set up by a newspaper called lavanya. of them are involved in running the bars and brasserie of paris. people from this region and this newspaper set up the race back in 1914 to kind of show off the trade and to attract people into the business of being being waiters. and if you look at the old footage on pat and others, you can see on pate and others, you can see regular footage from the �*30s and �*aos of the race taking place with men, only men in those days, running around the city, wearing their sort of formal attire of of apron and black trousers and so on. it ran out because the newspaper ran out of money a few years ago, and now it's being revived by the city this time. and the idea is, i guess, to make it an annual event again. but, of course, the link to the olympics is there in a kind of way, because everything that happens in paris this year is about self—promotion, about showing the city off to its best advantage. and one way of doing that is showing that, yeah, the tradition of hospitality in bars and brasse