Sports customers, “friends”, or the lack of permanence… On the terrace, the Olympics also produce winners and losers.

2024-08-06 05:28:04

NEWS – In the second week of the Olympic Games, Le Figaro take a long walk around Paris to get a glimpse of the Olympic influence on the capital’s bars and restaurants.

“Sorry, we’re full!” On the terrace of the Frog XVI bar, a stone’s throw from the Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, a few tables connected along the length of the sidewalk were all taken by storm at the beautiful, hot end of the day . Here, people speak English, there Polish, a few seats further, Danish. A waiter puts on his best Spanish accent to explain to an Argentinian tourist that he’ll have to find somewhere else to get a drink after a day of admiring the Olympic athletes in full swing. “We have very few people when the games are on TV”, one of his colleagues told us, pointing with his cheek at the screen installed on the large inner wall of the setup. This Monday, the French volleyball players are in the middle of the quarter-finals against the tough Germans – whom they will end up winning in five sets. Inside the tree, many customers do not miss a beat.

Paris is a party, Parisians like to say…

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