Getting ready for Paris 2024
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Ashish Sharma reports from Paris as the city prepares to host the Olympic games in the summer of 2024.
President of the Paris Organising Committee of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tony Estanguet, tells Ashish how they hope to make the games the most sustainable ever held. We also hear from Sodexo, the company charged with catering the games.
Local business owners tell us how they feel about the Olympics coming to their city so soon after the pandemic and in the midst of an energy crisis.
Presenter / producer: Ashish Sharma Image: Tony Estanguet; Credit: Getty
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, y'all? I'm Renee Montgomery, and my podcast Untold Legends ORA is available now. |
| 0:06.5 | I'm looking back on the life of one of the most extraordinary black female sports stars of the 20th century, |
| 0:13.3 | whose name has been all but forgotten. |
| 0:16.1 | Ora, Washington. |
| 0:17.9 | Stay listening at the end of this podcast to find out more. Paris, a city of beauty, romance, gastronomy, and in 2024, the Summer Olympics. |
| 0:53.3 | Thousands of people gathered at the Trocadero in front of the Eiffel Tower |
| 0:58.0 | on the banks of the River Sen and watched on giant screams the moment |
| 1:02.1 | when the closing ceremony at the Tokyo Olympics handed over the baton to the city |
| 1:06.2 | and with it began the official countdown to the Games in 2024. |
| 1:10.9 | It'll be exactly 100 years since Paris last hosted this event. |
| 1:22.5 | Hello, my name is Ashishamah, and in this edition of Business Daily, |
| 1:26.6 | we look at the preparations taking place for those Olympics |
| 1:29.5 | and ask how much appetite is there to host such a big event |
| 1:33.6 | so soon after the coronavirus pandemic and with a war now raging in Europe. |
| 1:38.5 | It's very difficult, but on the other side, |
| 1:41.3 | there's still a lot of expectation. |
| 1:45.6 | We saw very well what happened in London in 2012 and it was a major success. |
| 1:50.8 | So maybe more than before the COVID situation, it's needed for a country like France |
| 1:58.4 | to have this kind of positive emotions. |
| 2:01.7 | That's Tony Estangay and he's the real star. |
| 2:04.6 | A former three-time French Olympic champion in canoeing, |
| 2:07.6 | he's also the president of the Paris 2024 organising committee. |
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