Olympic Games 2024: With Paris ready to count the descending for 100 days, they want to revive love for games
Paris (AP)-On the outskirts of Paris, a little-eyed girl takes over Olympic Games and Disabled To finish.
This is because the swimming club will inherit the 10 -year -old Olympic Olympi swimming pool. It will be dismantled after games and trucks move from the Olympic race in the high -ranking Paris business area to Sevran, which is the city of Paris with lower luster and wealth. There, the pieces will be installed together and – Voala! Kebbi and the swimming team will get a new Olympic swimming pool to wander.
“It is incredible!” She says. “I hope you will bring luck to us,” her mother, Nora, adds.
Copies of one of the most famous Greek statues, Venus Milo, are installed on the steps of the French National Assembly in Paris, France, on Monday, April 15, 2024, to celebrate the Olympic Spirit. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
On 100 days starting on Wednesday, the Paris Olympics will start An ambitious opening ceremony conveyed by water. but First games in a century In the capital of France, the scene will not be judged alone. The last scale will be its impact on the disadvantaged Paris outskirts, away from the features of the city center that hosts many procedures.
Through positive and less polluted promises, and less than Olympics less wasting, the city synonymous with romance also places itself in the high tape to make future games more desirable in general.
Critics doubt their value to a world that is struggling with them Climate warming And other emergency situations. The possible host cities became more than that to the point that Paris and Los Angeles were The only candidates remain in 2017 When the International Olympic Committee chose them for 2024 and 2028, respectively.
after Scandals and The cost of 13 billion dollars Subordinate Epidemic Tokyo games in 2021, Unrealized promises A useful change for hosts Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and Winter Games 2014 in Sochi Disted by Russian steroids and President Vladimir He holds the subsequent lands of Putin in UkraineSwiss -based IOC has mountains of doubt to dispel.
Paris virtuous summer games can help survive in the long term of the huge IOC event.
Spreading benefits outside the center of Paris
The idea that July 26-August. 11 Games and 28 August-September. 8 Disabled You should benefit from the disadvantaged societies in the Sayyain-Dinis River area, northeast of Paris, built from the beginning to the city’s plans.
SEINE-Saint-Denis is the poorest of the mainland of France. Thanks to generations of immigration, they are also vibrant, with 130 nationalities and more than 170 languages with a population of 1.6 million. For children of Sayyin-Sent-Dinis face Racial discrimination And other barriers, sometimes the exit path. World Cup holder Kylian Mbappe Shahda His skills in silk football As a boy in the town of Bondi in the Setin Dennis River.
The stands are under construction on Champ-De-Mars, provided, with Eiffel Tower in the background, Monday 15 April 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
Once a severe industrial, Sen Dennis has become dark and frightening in parts after losing many jobs. The riots shook its streets in 2005 and Once again last year. Members of an Islamic extremist cell 130 people were killed In the French capital in 2015, he was hidden after the massacre in an apartment in the town of Saint Dennis and was Firing With the armed Swat teams with weapons. This drama is only 15 minutes walk from the Olympic stadium, which hosts the path, field, Rajabi and closing celebrations.
Tangantly, the games will leave a legacy of new and renewed sports infrastructure at Centus Dennis, although critics say the investment is still not sufficient to catch up with better and more prosperous areas.
Mamitiana Rabarijaona grew up near the Olympic Stadium, which was originally built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup. He says he did not provide a lot of a batch of Sayyin-Sent-Dinnis residents. He believes that the Olympic Games will be a “big party” and it will be among 45,000 volunteers Who will help. But it is not expected that the Olympic investments will invest in the magic difficulties of Sayyin-Dinis difficulties.
“It is like raising the carpet and brushing dust under it,” he said. “It does not make it disappear.”
Copies of one of the most famous Greek statues, Venus Milo, are installed on the steps of the French National Assembly in Paris, France, on Monday, April 15, 2024, to celebrate the Olympic Spirit. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Seine-Saint-Denis got the new Olympic Village That housing and offices will become when Olympian, which number 10,500 and 4,400, left the handicapped. It is also home to the place of competition only for games, a water center for diving, and water polo, and Technical swimming events. Other competitions were already present, previously planned or temporary.
“We were truly driven by the ambitious ambition and above all not to build unparalleled sports facilities that will not have any reason to exist after the games,” said Marie Parsak, the old director of the Organizational Committee, in an interview.
The 50 -meter -long swimming pool for SEVRAN will be an important upgrade. The town of Seine-Saint-Denis, with a population of 51,000, was closed due to the closure of the factory in the 1990s. The age of 25 meters is about 50 years old.
Other Seine-Saint-Denis cities also get or have been specially welcomed to the children of the region, because only half of them can swim.
“The ambition of these Olympic Games … is that they benefit everyone and for the longest possible time,” said the mayor of Sephran Stefan Blanchett. The Olympic Games could not “continue to pass only and then move without thinking tomorrow.”
Paris costs positively compares
In nearly 9 billion euros (9.7 billion dollars), more than half of the sponsors, ticket sales and other non -public financing, Paris expenditures so far are less than the last three summer games in Tokyo, Rio and London in 2012.
Including police and transportation costs, part of the French taxpayer bill is likely to be about 3 billion euros ($ 3.25 Pellon).
protection It still represents a challenge for the city Repeat over and over again By extreme extremist violence. The government reduces its ambitions to obtain 600,000 people Seine For the opening ceremony. Quoting the risk of attacks, Promise Anyone can apply for hundreds of thousands of free tickets. Instead, 326,000 spectators will pay either tickets or invited.
The stands are under construction on Champ-De-Mars, provided, with Eiffel Tower in the background, Monday 15 April 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
Criticism of privacy advocates Video control technology It is published to discover security threats. The homeless activists feel anxious that they will be washed away from the streets. a lot Parisians are planning to leave, To avoid disturbances or rent their homes to the expected 15 million visitors. with Workers unions Pressure for Olympic rewards, the strikes are also possible.
And all this against a flammable background of geopolitical crises, including but not limited to The Israel War is Hamas and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As a result, the International Olympic Committee does not allow athletes from Russia and Belarusian jewelry To review with other Olympic At the opening ceremony.
However, Olympic Games expect great things from Paris. It includes Ayawi Atandu, a 32 -year -old trainee from Togo studying in France. The Olympic volunteer believes that games can bridge the departments, even if it is temporary.
“The whole world is without ethnic differences, ethnic differences, and religious differences. He said,” We will all be together, scream, we celebrate. “We need the Olympic Games.”
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