Olympic Games come to an end in Paris
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🗓️ 11 August 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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On the final day of the Summer Olympics, France's Sports Minister reflects on what the Games have meant for her country. And we look at the cultural and social impact of the Games in Paris. Also in the programme: Donald Trump's presidential campaign team says its internal communications have been hacked by Iran; and 160 opposition members and activists have been arrested in Zimbabwe ahead of a regional summit. We hear from a lawyer representing some of them. (Picture: Sifan Hassan of Netherlands celebrates after winning gold in women's marathon. Credit: REUTERS/Lisa Leutner)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to Newsa from the BBC World Service, coming to you live from our |
| 0:08.1 | studios in Central London. I'm Julian Marshall. The Olympics are drawing to an end with what's expected to be a |
| 0:16.5 | spectacular closing ceremony later today for many the games are bomb for the soul, uplifting, inspirational, distracting in a troubled world, |
| 0:26.9 | a celebration of sometimes superhuman achievement and a study of how humans face success and failure. |
| 0:35.0 | But for some there are unsettling echoes of nationalism and they point to the disparities in wealth and resources reflected in the number of medals won by individual |
| 0:46.0 | countries, while the nominal Olympic truce has certainly not stopped hostilities in Ukraine and Gaza. |
| 0:55.2 | But for the moment let's take stock and ask whether the Paris Summer Olympics have been |
| 1:00.3 | a success and whether with the money spent they'll bequeath a lasting legacy for France. |
| 1:05.6 | Nusaz Julian Warica has been speaking to France's sports minister, Amalie, Wadera Castera. |
| 1:14.0 | We have been able to give a lot of joy to a country, a nation that is sometimes hard to satisfy. |
| 1:20.9 | We know the French people, they're sometimes hard to. But there we feel that collective |
| 1:26.3 | joy and it's fantastic. There is a new sense of unity and I really think that this country needed to recover some trust on its ability to do that. |
| 1:38.0 | I am sure that this will accompany us in the weeks, the months, the years to come because it's a period that |
| 1:46.2 | everyone will remember forever. What legacy will these games leave? I know there |
| 1:52.0 | was investment or there already is investment or |
| 1:54.9 | there will be investment in Saint-Sandani in Paris, but where else? What other |
| 2:00.4 | parts of Paris and France will benefit from these games longer term do you say? |
| 2:04.6 | Well we have invested in a number of sports infrastructure and equipments all across France. |
| 2:11.5 | Since 2017 we've been investing more than 1.2 billion in those sport |
| 2:18.9 | equipments. We have also transformed the public transport system and deployed services for the disabled people so that we improve really the level of accessibility. |
| 2:31.0 | There is also the big legacy which is going to be the ability to |
| 2:36.1 | swim in the river's sand starting next summer and this will change the quality of life. It's a real great demonstration of the power of sports |
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