Will France be ready to host the Paris 2024 Olympic Games?

By Wulfran Devauchelle

Published yesterday at 3:33 p.m., Updated yesterday at 5:22 p.m.

The Paris Olympics will open on July 26, 2024. FLORIAN HULLEU / AFP

INTERVIEW – Nearly 200 days before the start of the Paris Olympics, it seems that the dream has been overtaken by reality. Consultant Armand de Rendinger gives us his view on the controversial organization of this event.

Co-founder of the Sports Business Observatory, Wulfran Devauchelle is an expert in marketing, football, authorities and American sports.

LE FIGARO. – We observe that what the preparation for the Paris Olympics is going through today is neither original nor unprecedented. There is not a single preparation for the Games abroad which did not experience a situation during the last year of their preparation. troubled and troubled », where we hear leaders considering that everything is going well in the best of all possible worlds and others thinking that, on the contrary, we are heading towards disaster and fiasco. So who to believe?

Armand DE RENDINGER. – Whether they are simply politicians, elected or not, whether they are recognized experts of the real complexity of an organization such as the Olympic Games or whether they are members of the imposing cohort of eternal “ grumpy » refusing all constraints linked to an event which would hinder their freedoms… we are witnessing between these different…

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