Less than three years are left before the opening of the XXXIII Summer Olympic Games in Paris, scheduled for July 26, 2024.
Affected by a one-year delay in the Tokyo Olympics.
Time passes imperceptibly, and soon the question will arise how it will be there in Paris.
Moreover, the Paris Games are special. The last three Olympics - the summer in Brazil and Japan and the winter in South Korea - took place in distant countries, and even in them, sports events cannot be said to arouse the enthusiasm of the masses. Especially in Japan.
Not so in the capitale du monde, the glorious city of Paris. The decision on the venue for the XXXIII Summer Olympic Games was made on September 13, 2017. That is, four months after the victorious election of Macron as president of the republic and the announcement of a new era in the history of France. The decision of the IOC was just right, because the Games in Paris should become jubilee: exactly 100 years ago, in 1924, the VIII Olympic Games were held there, which were recognized as very successful both in terms of organizational and political aspects. France, which was in a state of rapture with its victory in the World War and considered itself a European hegemon (yes, there was such a thing), strengthened itself in such an honorary title. And by the way, she did not allow her defeated rival, Germany, to the Games. Rogue states appeared in world sports long before WADA and Rodchenkov.
Macron, who wants to make France great again, in 2017, when Paris was entrusted with hosting the Games, saw it as a happy sign, including for his own political destiny - as the promise of victory in the presidential elections in 2022.
By 2024, the "President-Sun" was going to wonderfully transform Paris in accordance with the dictates of the times: to plant forests on the Place de Grève (where the Hôtel de Ville is) and around the Gare de Lyon and to make the Seine suitable for bathing.
Obviously also for water sports.
Whether it will be possible in three years, having run out of the Greve forest, with pleasure to rush into the river waters is a separate question.
More important is the other: will the sanitary and hygienic as well as the political situation be sufficiently favorable?
Nobody knows about the sanitary one - what it will be in three years.
Maybe 2020-2021 will be forgotten like a bad dream.
And maybe the 19th wave of a pandemic with the "psi" strain will appear.
With the corresponding quarantines, protests and massacres, which do not contribute to the joyful holding of the sports festival.
See Tokyo.
Moreover, the Japanese are a very disciplined people, which is more difficult to say about the French.
It is also not clear to anyone whether there will be a "President-Sun" by July 2024 and in what form.
How France will handle all this is her business: the president proposes, and God disposes.
But Russia is interested in the Paris Games in one more respect, apart from the duty officer “Citius, altius, fortius,” of course.
Namely: in what status will Russian athletes come to Paris?
Formally, if you follow the letter of the law, it is the same as everyone else, as it was before 2016.
The term of his stay under the yoke - without the national flag, anthem and in the obscure status of the "Russian Olympic team" - expires on December 16, 2022.
That is, the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing will still be held under the yoke for us, but then - full rehabilitation.
The only question here is whether supporters of fair sport (that is, their own) and opponents of dishonest (that is, Russian) - primarily Anglo-Saxon athletes and functionaries - will agree with this.
What we saw during the Tokyo Games can hardly be called agreement.
Travis Tygart, Director General of the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA), called for "curbing the Russian thirst for medals, not valuables" and demanded "to publish the test results of all athletes, but especially from Russia." ? "
That is, the fraud continues more than ever, and the head of the IOC Bach and the head of WADA Banka turn a blind eye to all this.
How long?
True, G.M.
Rodchenkov and German TV doping columnist Hayo Zeppelt, who did not get out of the box during the 2016 and 2018 Games, disappeared somewhere.
Perhaps, by the time of the Paris Games, neither Tygart nor the new Rodchenkovs will be present: they scratch, and that's enough.
After all, the fact that now the Anglo-Saxons are furiously inflating the hood and hissing is a common thing - they do not know how to do otherwise.
The question is, do they have poisonous teeth or were, but they all came out.
In any case, both the IOC and the Elysee Palace are seemingly fed up with "Rodchenkada" and "Taigartiada" and would prefer to arrange a sports festival, as in the good old days: it is both calmer and more profitable.
But this is still, and there are still three years ahead, and our partners cannot help but make a mess.
As well as the virus, on which a lot also depends.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.