The route of the Olympic para-cycling road events has given rise to controversy. The mayor (UDI) of Coubron, a town of just over 5,000 inhabitants of Seine-Saint-Denis, which will be located on the 13.9 kilometer loop designed in the department, lamented on Tuesday February 20 at the microphone of Sud Radiofor not having been associated with this route and its feasibility. “At no time did anyone call me. I have never been asked about this,” explained Ludovic Toro.
The Paris 2024 Organizing Committee (Cojop) is “came to see me about a year ago saying “We’re going to do this at your place”, and since then they have traced the route themselves [sans] Never [venir] see me to say “How do we do it? Do we work together?” “, he added.
According to the elected official, the Cojop “imposed a route that cuts the city in two”. Result, he said, “There will be no bus for the start of the school year. It’s unmanageable! I’m going to tell people that they won’t be able to go to work the way they want, at the time they want, that they won’t be able to take the bus. Neither do middle and high school students.”
Meeting at town hall on October 10, 2022
Asked, Cojop said, for its part, to discover “with surprise” these statements and not understanding them very well to the extent that he considers that he has kept the elected official informed. “After a first telephone contact in September 2022, we met the mayor of Courbon at the town hall on October 10, 2022 in order to present the route project to him for the first time,” we assure the management of Paris 2024.
On the occasion of this meeting, “the constraints generated by securing a road competition were presented very precisely”, underline the organizers of the Games while noting that this exchange would have been marked by a “very positive reception of the project by the town hall of Coubron”.
Paris 2024 says it will then “worked with the International Cycling Union, the department of Seine-Saint-Denis, the communities crossed, the departmental prefecture and the Paris Police headquarters to finalize and validate the route”.
The management of Cojop also adds that this course was presented publicly on October 24, 2023 during a press conference held at the Paris 2024 headquarters. “Stéphane Troussel, president of the departmental council of Seine-Saint-Denis and Ludovic Toro”she recalls.
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