With less than 70 days to go until the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the French government is still struggling with the city's sanitation.
The Seine, an important event venue, is heavily polluted, often filled with garbage and bacteria levels. In addition to the rivers, the environment on the streets of Paris is also worrying, with garbage and sewage flowing everywhere.
With the Olympics looming, will the French government have enough time to turn around what has been described as a "slum"?
Can Paris welcome athletes from all over the world with a clean and elegant city?
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Romantic Paris is a big surprise
In the run-up to the 2024 Paris Olympics, the city, known as the "City of Romance", has a stunningly unstruck world with its filthy street environment, which contrasts with its romantic image.
As the host city, Paris is supposed to welcome athletes and tourists from all over the world with a clean and orderly appearance, but it is a shocking sight of garbage and feces, as if it were in a slum.
Walking through the streets of Paris, you can see mountains of garbage, sewage and most disgustingly, uncleaned human waste everywhere.
On some street corners and at the base of walls, piles of excrement can even be seen, which may also be mixed with toilet paper and other garbage. The excrements have long since dried up and agglomerated by the wind and sun, emitting a smoky stench.
What's more, pedestrians openly defecate on the streets, throwing feces on the ground. In densely populated neighborhoods, yellow stains and stains can be seen everywhere on the ground, making it unbearable to look at them directly.
In addition to disgusting feces, the streets of Paris are littered with other kinds of rubbish. Plastic bags, mineral water bottles, food packaging bags, newspapers and other household garbage are everywhere.
To make matters worse, there is also a lot of construction waste mixed with household waste, as if it has been dumped on both sides of the street.
The garbage emits a rancid smell in the sun, which is intertwined with the smell of feces in the air, making people almost sick. Occasionally, passers-by have to cover their mouths and noses, otherwise it is really unbearable.
In addition, Paris has been plagued by a large number of rats in the city, which not only poses a health hazard, but also directly affects the use of event venues.
Tracing the roots of Paris's environmental problems, it can be traced back to the Middle Ages. In that era of extremely poor sanitation, people had the bad habit of defecating and littering.
Due to the lack of an effective garbage collection and disposal system, feces and various household garbage are piled up on both sides of the streets, polluting the urban environment.
Even in modern society, this bad habit still persists among some Parisians.
For the sake of so-called "romantic" feelings, they even put garbage can-like facilities on the streets to encourage people to "be civilized and convenient on the spot".
For countless tourists with romantic fantasies, they originally thought that they would enjoy the elegance of French architecture and feel the atmosphere of romantic love on the streets of Paris.
However, when they actually put themselves on the streets of Paris, they are piles of garbage accompanied by a foul smell.
The Seine, the venue of the event, was reduced to a stinking ditch
The Paris Olympics are about to begin, but the sanitary conditions of the Seine, one of the major venues, are worrisome, casting a shadow over the Games.
The Seine will host marathon swimming, triathlon and other events, but the river is often littered with garbage, and water quality tests have shown that the bacterial levels are seriously exceeded, and the runners face potential health risks during the race.
Although the French government has invested heavily in cleaning up rivers and building a sewage system, progress in improving the water quality of the Seine is still slow.
Late last year, France suffered its worst rainfall in more than 20 years, with a failed sewer system and a large amount of sewage and household waste washed into the Seine, further exacerbating the already poor water quality situation.
Although the French government has previously allocated 1.4 billion euros to clean up the river and build a sewage treatment system, the water quality of the Seine River is still not at the ideal level.
Swimming in the Seine has been banned for 100 years, and it seems like a daunting challenge to try to improve the water quality before the Olympics.
Although the president of the Olympic Organizing Committee, Estanguet, expressed confidence that the Seine will eventually meet the needs of the competition, he also has to admit that if the pollution level is too high, the swimming part of the triathlon may have to be cancelled.
Whether the Seine can recreate its "romantic river" before the start of the Olympics depends largely on the weather conditions at the time.
If there is no rain on the horizon, the water quality will naturally improve. However, a sudden rainstorm could cause another sewage overflow, causing athletes to suffer.
Paris Daiso City, preparing for the Olympic Games
The Paris 2024 Olympics are just around the corner, but the city, known as the "City of Romance", has been criticized for its poor sanitation.
In order to reverse the situation before the Olympics, Macron's government decided to build hundreds of new free public toilets throughout the city, while completely upgrading the existing paid public toilets, and adding a large number of temporary eco-friendly toilets around main streets and scenic spots to solve the city's persistent problem of open defecation.
At the same time, the Macron government will also focus on cleaning up the "black spots" that have been littered and graffiti everywhere for a long time, and strive to restore the appearance of Paris as it should be.
The homeless and homeless will be forcibly "cleared" out of the city, provided with temporary shelter, or given job training.
In addition to the street environment, the water pollution of the Seine will also be the top priority of this remediation.
The government will step up supervision of sewage discharge, and spend huge sums of money to build new sewage treatment facilities, dredge and clean up the silt at the bottom of the river, and put a large number of microorganisms on the river surface to promote self-purification.
As a landmark building in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is naturally among the focus of this renovation. In addition to the complete renovation of the tower itself, the surrounding plaza and green space will also be renewed.
The strike cast a shadow over the Olympics
As the world's top sporting event, the Olympic Games have extremely demanding requirements for a good operating environment, and the French strike has begun to shake the foundations of the Olympic Games.
Security is at the forefront of the Games, which require a large police presence to maintain order at the stadiums, but the French police have also joined the protests during the strike, and the massive absence will severely weaken security capabilities.
Once a safety accident occurs, it will bring great personal injury to athletes and spectators. It is conceivable that if order in the stadium gets out of control, the Olympics will fall into uncontrollable chaos.
Trains, subways, buses and other key capacity may be suspended, which will bring great inconvenience to athletes and spectators, and may even lead to the postponement or cancellation of the competition.
It can be said that this wave of large-scale strikes that has swept France has posed an unprecedented challenge and threat to the smooth holding of the Olympic Games.
Workers in key areas such as security, transportation, and food supply are leaving their jobs, which means that the basic operations of the Games are at risk of being completely paralyzed.
If the French government fails to defuse the strike crisis in time for the start of the Games, the Games will be in a "catastrophe" of runaway operations.
At that time, it will not only cause a lot of inconvenience to the participating athletes and spectators, but also may cause irreparable damage to the Olympic Games, and even affect the reputation of the Olympic Games in France and even the world.
Netizens called on athletes to withdraw from the Paris Olympics
Paris is known as a romantic city, but it has recently been criticized for its sanitation problems. Regrettably, the citizens of Paris seem to have become numb to this harsh environment.
In their daily lives, the garbage heaps and dirty streets that can be seen everywhere have become a kind of "scenery".
Some Parisians even see the environment as a sign of some kind of "romance", setting up garbage can-like facilities on the streets, openly encouraging citizens to "defecate in place".
With the Paris 2024 Olympics approaching, many local residents have taken to social media to call on athletes from all over the world to refrain from competing.
They admit that the current state of the environment in Paris is too bad to provide the safe and hygienic conditions that athletes from all over the world deserve.
In response to this situation, Chinese netizens have also expressed their worries, calling on the Chinese sports delegation to think twice and not rashly participate in the Paris Olympics, so as not to affect the health of national athletes.
After all, as a top-level sporting event, the Olympics are supposed to provide a clean and safe environment for competition, and the status quo Paris is clearly unable to meet this requirement.
conclusion
With less than 70 days to go until the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the French government does not seem to be fully ready.
The filthy streets of Paris, the heavily polluted Seine, and the massive strike wave pose enormous security and operational challenges all cast a shadow over the highly anticipated Paris Games.
Right now, the French government is going all out to turn things around before the opening. As an important participant, the Chinese sports delegation is going all out for the success of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
In order to ensure the safety and normal participation of Chinese athletes, the Chinese delegation will take a number of measures.
The Chinese delegation will scientifically manage and carefully organize the preparation of athletes to ensure that the athletes can participate in the competition in the best condition and give full play to their strength.
Create a good environment for athletes to participate, eliminate all interference factors that may affect performance, and fully protect the legitimate rights and interests of athletes.
In addition, the Chinese delegation will be equipped with senior coaches and medical security teams to provide athletes with a full range of professional technical support using advanced scientific and technological means.
Most importantly, they will also strengthen communication and coordination with the host country, France, to reflect the reasonable demands of Chinese athletes in a timely manner, and work together to optimize the event environment.
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