2024-08-17 12:35:06
This week’s French weekly magazines take stock of the Paris Olympic Games, which ended last Sunday (11), with commercial success and opposition before and after the event. Socialist Mayor Anne Hidalgo has overcome the scandal and should have political shares.
Le Point was angry when examining the protest before the Olympics began, in contrast to the praise from the international press at the end of the event. The magazine said: “Although poverty can be painful, the Olympic Games are a popular celebration and sporting achievement.
For Le Point, the event represents everything that the left has built: “the stubborn pursuit of self-improvement, the virtues of competition and its exemplary size, the best reward, the organization of ambitious national competitions through camaraderie”.
Fans at the Eiffel Tower Arena. REUTERS – Esa Alexander
The newspaper also remembers that Paris 2024 is the opposite of Tokyo, where the previous Olympics were held, when the fear of the pandemic dominated the world. “The Paris conference is worldly and popular. The environment changed the country in an interesting way, bringing a new air of optimism. Politicians who refuse to see this run the risk of finding themselves rejected by society,” he said.
L’Express says that the Olympic celebration masks the economic situation of the country, recalling that the indicators of the Banque de France – the French Central Bank – have been bright since June and are similar to those made notice in 2022 after the invasion of Ukraine and the beginning of power. crisis
“The impact of the games should fill this hole for a while. But for a while”, said L’Express, remembering that the crisis is hiding in other countries, such as Germany and the United States.
Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris, at the RFI studios, on 7/08/2024. © RFI
At the same time, the magazine L’Obs analyzed the shares of the Games for the main producer, the socialist mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo. “After months of dealing with criticism and insults, the leadership of Paris emerged stronger from the Games, which created a lot of excitement and put the capital in a critical position.”
“Today, even his harshest critics are silent; It is difficult to attack in a time of such success, when time seems to stand still, when tourists praise the beauty of the property, the environment, the quality of the organization, transportation, festivals, cleanliness”, analyzes L’Obs .
The audience honors the volunteers for the Paris Olympic Games at the Stade de France, 08/11/2024. AP – Natacha Pisarenko
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