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Paris 2024: French people's support for the Olympic Games remains unclear [1]
['Gabriel Richalot']
Date: 2024-07-24
Four days to go until the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, at La Défense, outside Paris, on July 22, 2024. LOIC VENANCE / AFP
Against a background of ongoing tension, the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are here. But among the French population, there's indifference (36%), concern (24%) and even anger (5%) according to a survey (IFOP-Fiducial for Sud Radio, carried out on July 15 and 16, on a representative sample of 1,504 people). The poll suggested that the country's hosting of the world's biggest sporting event is still not thrilling the crowds. There's a faint stirring, however: 23% of those polled said they felt "satisfaction" when thinking about these Games, compared with 11% at the end of May.
It's probably time to move on from close examination of the numbers. For Paris 2024 is now a concrete reality. The Games are about to begin. For almost three weeks, not only the Paris region, but also several other cities (Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Saint-Etienne, Lille, Lyon, Châteauroux and Nice) and even Teahupoo, a small town of 1,500 inhabitants in Tahiti, in French Polynesia, will be nothing but a vast sports ground. Over 10,000 athletes are expected to take part. All are hoping to achieve the performance that will earn them a lifelong pass to glory.
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