Less than three months before the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games (OG) in Paris, all the media are flexing their muscles and showing their desire to be part of it. The written press is no exception. Several daily newspapers, including The Parisian And The Teamheld press conferences at the beginning of April to highlight their respective measures, while others, like Le Figarothe women’s weekly She or the website 20 minutescompete with press releases praising their coverage in the run-up to this global sporting event.
Impossible to miss, for editorial reasons: a hundred years after organizing its last Summer Olympics in Paris, the French capital is preparing to welcome several million tourists, spectators and athletes. For the media, the issues are obviously sporting, but they are just as political, economic, geopolitical, environmental and security (due to fears of attacks).
The editorial offices are therefore organizing themselves so that the various services and specialists are on deck and have accreditations, a precious key delivered in small quantities by the International Olympic Committee. Agence France-Presse claims to have obtained a little more than two hundred for its journalists.
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The press agency will cover the Games through text, photo and video formats, and in six languages (French, English, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese and German through the subsidiary Sport-Informations-Dienst). “We have the specificity of working for four thousand clients, including 1,800 media outlets around the world”, explains Pierre Galy, head of the sports department. According to our information, The Team has forty-three accreditations for its editors; follow The Parisian (twenty eight), The world (seventeen) and Le Figaro (ten), to which must be added the photographers.
The Team however, highlights that in total its seventy accreditations for its journalists and photographers represent double those for the Tokyo Games, which took place in 2021 in reduced circumstances due to the Covid-19 epidemic. For its part, with its thirty-five photographer accreditations included, The Parisian wishes to make itself essential with its triptych “inform, support and move”.
The two newspapers will strengthen their paginations, going from thirty-six to forty pages for The Team (including twelve pages of results) and forty-eight to fifty-two pages during the Games, or even up to sixty-four pages for the opening ceremony. Also, like the website of the Worldthey will offer a live online broadcast from 6 a.m. to midnight, which should be the main vector of traffic with the program and competition results pages.
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