VIDEO. Less than 500 days from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the journalist wonders about the future good performance of the event.
By Le Point.fr
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J – 499. As the countdown to the Paris 2024 Olympics begins, “all sorts of questions arise”, begins Philippe Labro. First – and in a complicated social context – “there is what Yves Thréard calls “greviculture”: you never know what can happen”. Indeed, in the event of major social movements, the organization of such a meeting can be heavily impacted.
Added to this are security issues, which “were put on the agenda after the Stade de France fiasco”. The inauguration of the Paris Olympics, on July 26, 2024, is in this sense “a risky and daring choice which can bring all kinds of problems”, underlines the writer.
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Nevertheless, the president of the organizing committee, Tony Estanguet, and the president of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, try to reassure and affirm that things are progressing well. But “will the buildings be built on time?” Are the finances OK? asks Philippe Labro. “It is forbidden for things to go wrong. Let’s be optimistic and positive! he concludes.
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