The schedule of the Paris Olympic Games slows down a week before the opening ceremony – Libération

2024-07-19 12:15:48

The global IT outage of Microsoft software affected the IT services of the Olympic organizing committee on Friday, July 19, changing the accreditation system and affecting the arrivals of national representatives in the Olympic village.

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Nothing will escape them. Exactly one week before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, after a great political crisis, the tensions of the Seine and the notice of a strike by the players on July 26, the organizing committee of the Olympic Games (Cojo) has been forced to recognize, Friday July 19, that its operations were also affected by the outage of Microsoft software throughout the world. In a press release, Paris 2024 explained that “These issues disrupt IT services” of the Games but ensure in the process that its groups “We are fully mobilized to reduce the impact of these problems”.

Ask through France InformationThe president of Cojo, Tony Estanguet, explained that he is working on this new jolt “to see how to fix it”. “For time, the works can continue,” he explained, hopefully “that Microsoft can solve this problem quickly.” For him, this new manifestation of Murphy’s law “It does not call into question the security of access to important and important information, but on the other hand, in the activities on the ground, to welcome the new athletes, all the representatives, to give certificates, it slows down our activities “.

A source within the committee explained to AFP that the exit could prevent the arrival of athletes and national representatives in the Olympic village, which opened on Thursday. For several hours, the roads were blocked at the airports, and connections were suspended by some flights at a time when the athletes were arriving together in France. But the computer systems of the ADP group (formerly Aéroports de Paris) seem to be broken. In its press release, Paris 2024 explained that “The impact on the operations of some airlines prevented the arrival of some representatives in Paris”. The message loops are opened with representatives by Cojo to “ensure their reception in the best conditions”.

Among other disruptions, an AFP source in Cojo explained that the authentication system has been changed, preventing some people from removing their bags, which could confuse officials such as journalists. Regarding the work on the Parisian sites, the organizers of the Olympic Games said in their press release that “Works regarding the assembly of (Olympic) sites continue normally, without risk on deadlines”.

The American technology giant Microsoft, affected by a global outage, said that it is taking “Reduction Methods” time to solve the problem. Many stock markets rose quickly and showed some decline, including those of Paris, London, Milan, Frankfurt and even Hong Kong. The CEO of the cybersecurity company CrowdStrike explained that his company “is actively working with customers affected by a flaw found in a single content update for Windows hosts. This is not a security incident or cyber attack. “