Tag: Games2024
Olympic Games-2024: still thousands of positions to fill and desire for stable jobs
Four months before the Paris Olympic Games, thousands of positions are still to be filled (AFP/Archives/Dimitar DILKOFF) Four months before the opening of the Olympic Games, 12,500 positions are still…
Olympic Games-2024: “no plan B” for the events in the Seine, reaffirms the prefect
“The Cojo (organizing committee) has always said that there was no plan B as to the location of these events,” said Marc Guillaume, the prefect of the Ile-de-France region, in…
Olympic Games-2024: start of construction work on the contested tower for the surfing events in Polynesia
The first stage of the construction of the very controversial judges’ tower for the surfing event of the Paris Olympic Games took place calmly this week on the Teahupo’o site,…
Olympic Games-2024: teleworking on the program for Ile-de-France employees
For several months, to avoid transport embolism this summer, Ile-de-France residents have been invited to telework during the Olympic Games (AFP/Archives/Chris DELMAS) During the Olympic Games, “the important thing is…
Olympic Games-2024: taxis and VTCs in turmoil
A demonstration by VTC drivers on January 24, 2024, in Paris (AFP/Archives/Thomas SAMSON) Concert of horns, snail operations: taxis and VTCs are ready for a showdown to defend their rights…
Olympic Games-2024: organizers cancel thousands of overnight reservations in Lille
Europe 1 with AFP 6:13 p.m., January 22, 2024 Thousands of hotel nights have been canceled by the organizers of the 2024 Olympic Games from Paris to Lille, which is…
Olympic Games-2024: “We don’t care what Putin thinks” retorts Amélie Oudea-Castéra
Europe 1 with AFP 10:45 a.m., January 3, 2024 Asked to comment on the Russian president’s statement made in mid-December considering that the IOC risked “burying the Olympic movement” by…
Olympic Games-2024: UFC-Que Choisir deplores the soaring prices of Parisian hotels
The Olympic rings on the facade of Paris City Hall, September 2, 2022 (AFP/Archives/Behrouz MEHRI) Hoteliers in Paris and its surrounding area are “increasing their prices” in the run-up to…
Olympic Games-2024: Nicolas Ferrand, the “inhabited” builder of the Olympic works
Nicolas Ferrand poses for AFP on November 27, 2023 in Paris. At 51, the engineer graduated from Polytechnique and MIT in Boston heads the company responsible for delivering the works…
Olympic Games-2024: the surfing event will be able to be maintained in Teahupo’o
Europe 1 with AFP 9:13 a.m., December 11, 2023 For months at the heart of tensions between the authorities, the organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and the local…
Olympic Games-2024: 4 times fewer workplace accidents than on comparable sites, according to Bernard Thibault
To date, there have been four times fewer work accidents on a 2024 Olympic Games construction site than on comparable construction sites, according to the former head of the CGT…
Olympic Games-2024: the Olympic world favorable to the Russians under a neutral banner
Europe 1 with AFP // Photo credits: GREG MARTIN / OIS/IOC / AFP 6:10 p.m., December 5, 2023 According to the press release concluding the 12th Olympic Summit, representatives of…