Paris 2024: why volunteers for the Olympic Games are neither paid nor compensated

After the controversy over the high ticket prices, Paris 2024 will undoubtedly not escape the subject of the “non-remuneration” of its 45,000 volunteers, essential to ensure the organization of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Especially since the people selected, who for the most part will take days off, will have to come to Paris by their own means and find accommodation for a dozen days, the organizing committee not financing and not proposing solutions . They will officiate an average of eight hours a day.