The incidents that occurred in May 2022 at the Stade de France during the final of the Football Champions League raised a number of questions about France’s capacity to still know how to properly organize a major sporting event. This questioning – even this questioning – was all the stronger as it was a completely different project that awaited the country, with the hosting of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in the summer of 2024.
Today, in any case, the French are mostly confident about French know-how: 55% of them say ” trust [leur] countries to organize international events such as the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games », according to an Ifop-Fiducial survey carried out in mid-February for Sud Radio. 54% of them said the same thing at the end of May-beginning of June 2022, just after the Champions League final.
However, it is less on the public authorities than on the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee (Cojop), and more particularly on its president, Tony Estanguet, that the French are counting on to carry out the preparation and smooth running of the the event: 53% of them say they trust it.
Tony Estanguet is thus almost the only one to be “floating” because, as far as the politicians involved in the preparation of these Games are concerned, it is above all distrust that the French express. Thus, 73% of them say they do not trust the Minister of Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.
75% and 71% respectively say the same thing about the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, and the president of the Ile-de-France region, Valérie Pécresse. Distrust is less towards the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin (58%) and the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron (59%).
While the subject of security has been at the center of concerns for months, notably with the opening ceremony planned on the Seine on July 26, Cojop is also seen by the French as a key player in this area: 69% French people say they trust him to ensure security in Paris during the event. 69% also trust the Paris police headquarters and 54% in the Ministry of the Interior.
The survey was conducted among a sample of 1,011 people, representative of the French population aged 18 and over. The interviews were carried out by self-administered online questionnaire from February 13 to 14, 2024. The representativeness of the sample was ensured by the quota method (sex, age, profession of the person interviewed) after stratification by region and category of agglomeration.
A small majority of French people ready to follow the competitions
Six months before the start of the Games, a small majority of French people say they intend to follow the opening ceremony of the Games (53%) as well as the event itself (55%). It is especially among men that the interest expressed is the strongest: 66% of them intend to follow the tests this summer, while 46% of women express the same desire. And it is also in the wealthy categories (more than 2,500 euros of monthly income per person in the household) and the upper middle class (between 1,900 and 2,500 euros of income per month) that the event attracts the most interest: respectively 69% and 59% of people belonging to these categories say they intend to follow the competitions.
Our selection of articles on the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Find all our content on the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games:
Emmanuel Macron decides in favor of Parisian second-hand booksellers after months of controversy
Gérald Darmanin lowers the gauge of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games to 300,000 spectators
Training in private security professions in preparation for the Games led to 10,200 hires
“The Stade de France, let’s be clear, is not a plan B” for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games
Transport during the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris: from the euphoria of promises to the shock of reality
Suspense to know if line 14, “the lifeline of the Games”will be fully operational
Everything you need to know about traffic conditions during the Games
Olympic projects arrive on time
Bernard Thibault: “For the 2024 Games, our objective is to demonstrate that major events are not incompatible with high social rights
- Athlete preparation
Simone Biles on her way to Paris 2024: “I’m getting old and I have more to lose”
Marc-Antoine Olivier, the open water swimmer who makes waves
Thierry Henry faces the puzzle of composing his list for the Olympic football tournament
Integrate the top 5 medals, a “goal more achievable than ever” for the French people
For French athletes, the Olympic celebration is worth it
These French athletes who are playing overtime until Paris 2024
Paris 2024: Titouan Castryck, the crack who “revolutionizes” the kayak
- The question of the presence of Russian and Belarusian athletes
These Russian wrestlers whose neutrality is contested
Football and the Paralympic Games, two ticketing challenges
The Organizing Committee draws from its reserve to keep the Games budget in balance
Ongoing legal investigations
Tony Estanguet, the boss of the Games, in his turn in the sights of justice
THE “four musketeers” of the organizing committee targeted by the PNF
- The Olympic Torch Relay
Some municipalities are irritated by the requirements and costs linked to hosting the torch relay
The government steps on the accelerator to close the accessibility gap
- Seine-Saint-Denis and the Games
The Red Star Rugby of Saint-Ouen deprived of a stadium because of the Games
An island, an eco-mayor and ” luck “ to benefit from the Games
In La Courneuve, we “would like to see the Games arrive with the eyes of a child”
- Paris at Games time
Enthusiastic inauguration for the Adidas Arena, the new venue at Porte de la Chapelle
Cultural places worried and in need of information seven months before the Olympic Games
Film shootings will be banned in the capital for the first time for three months
- The Games are not just Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis
The American athletes most likely to be medalists will prepare in Eaubonne, in Val-d’Oise
In Calvados, the hope of a “accelerator boost” for attractiveness with the reception of foreign sports delegations
Paris 2024: the city of Miramas follows Kenyan time
197 Club 2024 fan zone projects, but the initiative is being shunned by some big cities
- Environmental issues
Coca-Cola, sponsor of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and always ” world champion “ plastic pollution
The difficult challenge of the “green” Olympic Games
- The societal issues that the Games highlight
Far from the splendor of the Olympics, the reality of PE lessons in a Montreuil college
At the time of sport, a major national cause, the worrying situation of swimming pools in France
School sport is still looking for the right formula
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