(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Tickets are going fast! No, really. "Of the 10 million tickets available for the Olympic Games, just under 8 million have already been taken up." Better hurry if you don't already have your tix.
What could go wrong? Plenty of things.
Bed bugs, for one thing. Last fall it was like a plague. About the same time, trash collectors went on strike and piles were left on Paris streets. That in turn probably exacerbated the persistent rat problem.
For another thing, they have millions of visitors coming in the middle of a "housing crisis." In the words of one student, "[M]any of my friends are being evicted from their flats in June so that their landlords can let them out at inflated prices during the Olympics."
Workers are being asked to work from home if possible, so that the already-strained transport system isn't overloaded. Transportation tickets will double in price.
Add more strikes and public protests to the list. Be glad you are not in charge of making this whole thing look good to the world and run smoothly. Because the last thing France wants is to damage its global, glorious reputation.
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