The Paris Olympics are scheduled for two years from now.

The summer of 2024 still seems far away, but will it be long enough for the organizing committee and the State to be ready in time to host this world competition?

Indeed, only 24 months from the start, the list of problems to be solved is still long.

The Budget: a bottomless pit?

Inflation weighs on the budget of 4 billion euros of the organizing committee of the Paris Olympic Games (Cojo) and on that of Solideo, responsible for building permanent structures (4 billion, including 1.55 of public money ).

On the side of the Cojo, no figures filter on the amount of savings to be made.

After the 300 million euros released at the end of 2020, how much will it be necessary to find?

All the markets have not yet passed and all the sponsors have not yet been garnered.

They are eagerly awaited by the organizers to fit in their envelope (ticketing, sponsorship, IOC contribution).

On the Solideo side, inflation will have to be paid for by someone, probably by the State, which tops up its envelope each year in the Sports budget.

The economic context, which promises to be difficult, will make the absence of waste even more essential, otherwise the Olympic Games will lose public opinion.

Shortage of security guards

The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on the Seine gives the police services cold sweats.

Should it be reduced?

For now, the Cojo does not want to change anything.

But we will also have to ensure the security of the Olympic and Paralympic Games for two summer months.

Some of the events will take place in the center of Paris, Place de la Concorde, very close to the Élysée, near the Eiffel Tower or even at the Château de Versailles.

It will be necessary to have the public forces available and above all to find the 20,000 private agents necessary while the sector has been on its knees since the health crisis.

Not enough public transport for spectators

To manage the approximately ten million spectators expected, the question of transport is essential, especially since certain metro lines (16 and 17) which were to serve Seine-Saint-Denis will not be ready in time.

A report on the transport and service system must be submitted to the Prime Minister at the start of the school year, in light of the incidents in the Champions League final at the Stade de France, which highlighted access problems.

In addition to the classic public transport network, as in any Olympic edition, it will also be necessary to charter additional buses, and suddenly find drivers when the profession is short of arms.

For the hosting of the Paralympic Games, there is also considerable progress to be made in terms of accessibility.

“Olympic lanes” of circulation reserved from July 1 to September 15 for athletes, officials, media and emergency services have been established.

The anti-doping service lagging behind

Several sources from the world of anti-doping affirmed that the Cojo was "very late" for the establishment of the organization of anti-doping during the Olympic Games, so much so that even "the IOC is worried".

If it is the International Testing Agency (ITA) which will officiate during the Olympic Games, it is up to the Cojo to plan the logistics and to ensure that it can intervene and work correctly.

The AFLD (French anti-doping agency) should recover the mission.

The objective of putting the French in sport undermined

Get the French to "move" while a sedentary lifestyle is wreaking havoc among adults and children: the public health objective shared between the State and the Olympics has so far resulted in the initiative, launched by the Cojo, to set up 30 minutes of physical activity in primary school.

Its generalization has become one of the measures of President Emmanuel Macron's program.

The objective of three million additional practitioners displayed in 2017 after obtaining the Olympics will be difficult to achieve, also undermined by the health crisis.

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