With an expected fifteen million visitors coming to town this summer, Paris is making a tremendous effort to give them a good impression and a good time at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
Spectacular scenery will abound as a background for photos. Imagine the opening athletes coming down the Seine River on boats as you watch from the riverside quai, beach volleyball under the Eiffel Tower, equestrians on the grounds at Versailles.
Huge profits will ensue for businesses and the city. But possible disasters loom as well, so the upfront costs are also huge as they try to eliminate those possibilities.
Three swimming events will be held in the river itself, where swimming has been banned since 1923 because of pollution. Confident that it will be clean, President Macron says he himself will take a swim in the river.
from Paris is Heading for an Olympic-Sized Disaster
(cont'd tomorrow)
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