Paris 2024 Olympics: what bill, what legacy?

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500 days before the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics (back in France after a 100-year absence), Éco d’ici Éco d’ailleurs is bringing together an exceptional line-up at the headquarters of the Organization (COJOP) in Saint-Denis, epicenter of this planetary event. Around Bruno Faure, the leaders of Paris 2024 first take stock of the budget for the Olympic Games (upward due in particular to inflation), on the progress of the sites whose delivery is planned by the end of the year 2023, on the price of tickets which is controversial. They then come back to the expected benefits, from an economic and social point of view, including in Africa.

Étienne Thobois and Marie Barsacq during the recording of the show at the Paris 2024 headquarters. © Christophe Diremszian/RFI

Our guests :

Etienne Thobois, Director General of the COJOP (Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games) of Paris 2024

Marie Barsacq, Director Impact and Legacy of Paris 2024.

And the interventions of:

– Nicolas Ferrand general manager of the Olympic works delivery company (Solideo).

Danielle Dubrac, president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Seine-Saint-Denis.

The construction site of the Universeine district.
The construction site of the Universeine district. © Pauline Gleize/RFI

Our reports :

The environmental concern is very present in the construction sites of the Olympic Games. Example in the Universeine districtnorth of Paris, which will host some of the athletes and their companions. Pauline Gleize, journalist in the economy department of RFI, visited the site carried out by the developer Vinci immobilier. It is intended to be sustainable in every sense of the word…

UNIVERSEINE SITE REPORT

To facilitate the reconversion of the Universeine district, beams have been removed from the buildings.
To facilitate the reconversion of the Universeine district, beams have been removed from the buildings. © Pauline Gleize/RFI

How to involve local companies in the sites of the Olympic Games, including the smallest? A charter imposes to grant them 25% of public contracts. But it is a real challenge as illustrated by this report in Seine-Saint-Denis by Nicholas Feldmann

SME REPORT IN THE OJ

Find our reports on the Paris 2024 Olympics here.

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