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The Documentary Podcast

In the Studio: The Aquatics Centre, Paris Olympics 2024

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In September 2017, The International Olympic Committee announced that a century after France last hosted the Olympics in 1924, the games would be returning to Paris for the third time in its history. The 2024 games, are set to become the most sustainable games to date and are following a new model -which involves only two new construction projects for the entire games – The Aquatics Centre and Olympic Village. The bid therefore to design the only new permanent sports facilities for Paris 2024 was highly sought after. French journalist, writer and broadcaster, Agnès Poirier, follows the architects who have won this coveted contract - Cécilia Gross and Laure Mériaud.

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0:21.4

Welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service.

0:26.2

The program that follows some of the most creative minds in the world

0:29.8

as they develop an idea from its very beginning through the artistic process

0:34.8

right up to its introduction to an audience.

0:37.8

Ladies and gentlemen,

0:39.8

I have the great honour to announce that the International Olympic Committee

0:44.8

has elected the host city of the Games of the 33rd Olympiad 2024.

0:51.8

Paris 24, Los Angeles 24.

0:56.8

That was 2017 when the Olympic Committee announced that a century after France

1:03.8

last hosted the Olympics in 1924,

1:07.8

the Games would be returning to Paris for the third time in its history.

1:12.8

One of the things which makes the 2024 Games particularly special is that

1:18.8

for the first time most of the venues used will be existing ones.

1:23.8

In fact, there will only be two new constructions, the athletes,

1:28.8

village and the aquatic centre,

1:31.8

the latter of which will be built right opposite the Stade de France

1:35.8

in the Sandernie district north of Paris.

1:38.8

The architects of this new aquatic centre are the focus of this week's in the studio.

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