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Seven years of preparation, French officials at all levels worked hard.
It has launched a series of renovation plans and has sought help from 46 countries.
With double-digit time left, is France ready?
The Olympic torch relay begins
On 26 April, the President of the Greek Olympic Committee, Palalos, officially handed over the torch to the President of the Paris Organising Committee, Tony Estanguet.
At this time, it is not a few days before the start of the Paris Olympics, and it is understood that France has worked hard to win the qualification for this Olympic Games, so in order to be able to hold it, it is also an opportunity for France to "raise its eyebrows" in the international arena.
Paris won the bid to host the 2024 Olympics in 2017, and it has been seven years since they counted their fingers, and even the French who won the bid were ridiculed as the lucky ones in that year's bid.
In fact, because Paris is running for the city, many cities have opted out for various reasons, which is the only time that France, which experienced a terrorist attack in 2015, has tried to stir up national excitement.
So when France won the right to host the Games on September 13, 2017, the French government made a vow to make the Summer Olympics a beautiful one.
Even in 2019, the emblem of the Paris Olympics was released, and the slogan of the Olympic Games "The Olympics can be more open" was released on the occasion of the countdown to the second anniversary.
On the occasion of the countdown to the first anniversary, the famous French designer Matthew Lehanneur designed the torch to be exposed, with champagne gold as the main color and a symmetrical design, giving people a simple and rich texture in the fashion capital of Paris.
The same is true for the actual medals to be announced on February 8, 2024, and the biggest highlight is that each medal has an original piece of construction material from the Eiffel Tower embedded in the middle.
No matter how you look at it, France has worked hard for the Olympic Games, but also retains sincerity, and even the original construction materials of the Eiffel Tower, one of the world's famous buildings, are embedded between the medals, which shows that France attaches great importance to the hosting of the Olympic Games.
However, it is frequently rumored that the Olympics are approaching, France panicked, and even asked 46 countries for help, and French citizens even said bluntly, is France really ready, and why?
Is Paris not ready?
And the reason why there is a doubt about "whether Paris is ready" is that the French government has put a lot of effort into preparing for the Olympic Games.
In addition to building a new water sports center to host swimming competitions, France will not build a new permanent venue, in the French side's answer, it is to make full use of the beautiful scenery of Paris as the biggest highlight of the Olympic Games.
Just as the Place de la Concorde in France will be the grandstand of the Olympic Games, taekwondo matches will be held in the Grand Palais, and beach volleyball matches will go to a makeshift venue under the Eiffel Tower.
In short, with the natural beauty of Paris as a backdrop, it is only natural that the cost of the Olympics alone will be greatly reduced.
Place de la Concorde
However, there are also many external forces that can be successfully held in Paris this time, and the "epidemic" of the new crown epidemic in the world alone has made the Paris Olympics work difficult.
Lines 14, 15, 16 and 18, which were supposed to be in operation before the Olympics, are now only being extended to operate on time.
The line connects Orly Airport in the south of Paris, and one line connects to the airport, so the traffic of the Olympic Games has naturally become a problem.
Then there's the issue of security.
As early as March this year, it was revealed that the security pressure of the Paris Olympics was huge.
The French Interior Ministry has reached out to 46 countries for help, with the biggest wish being that they send more than 2,000 police officers to help secure the Paris Olympics this summer.
In addition, the French Ministry of Defense requested foreign countries to send a small number of military personnel in order to help France carry out security during the Olympic Games.
France wants foreign reinforcements to include mobile forces, anti-drone specialists, and more, and 35 countries have responded to France's request for assistance since it was reported in March.
The French government plans to deploy about 45,000 members of the police and security forces, 20,000 private security guards and 15,000 military personnel every day to secure the Games.
The reason why the French people attach importance to security is still inseparable from the terrorist attacks on the French people in 2015, so when the French government asked the outside world for help to increase security, the French people's "questions" about the Olympic Games also came up.
In addition, the Seine River is also worrying the French people, for no other reason, but Paris said during the Olympic bid that the triathlon swimming event will be completed in the Seine.
According to foreign media disclosures, this is not the first time that the mayor of Paris has promised to restore the water quality of the Seine to the point where it can be swimmed.
A non-governmental organization even released a sample report on the Seine River water from September last year to the beginning of this year, showing that the bacteria exceeded the standard and was not suitable for human contact.
So in the eyes of the French people, Paris may be "unprepared".
However, the tournament is approaching, is Paris really not ready, and in fact, it is not, security issues, as mentioned in March, more than 30 countries have already accepted requests for French assistance.
In addition, the Paris government has long known about the water quality of the Seine, so it is not surprised by the so-called verification report, and said that the hydrological conditions of the Seine vary from season to season.
And the Paris city government said that it will set up more than 30 water quality monitoring stations during the Olympics to control water quality in real time, and the mayor of Paris is even more confident to the outside world: then we look forward to whether the athletes will be able to swim in the Seine this summer.
Therefore, it is still necessary to believe in Paris's determination to host the Olympic Games, the mascot was designed early, and the medals were even embedded in the raw materials for the construction of the Eiffel Tower.
As for whether there is a real problem, we will see in July.
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