Paris Olympic Games in 2024: 47% of French people say they are "indifferent"

Europe 1 with AFP 11:30 a.m., July 26, 2022

Two years before the opening of the Paris Olympics, which will take place from July 26 to August 11, 2024, 47% of French people say they are "indifferent" to this event, according to an OpinionWay poll published this Tuesday by the daily Le Parisien.

To the same question on the feeling inspired by the Paris Games, only 26% of respondents say they are "interested", while 19% are "worried" and 7% "impatient".

1% don't know.

54% of French people plan to "follow the event in the media"

The survey is published the day after a "site meeting" on the subject of the Games convened by Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée, to take stock of all the major issues of the event.

According to this survey, the French are also only 54% to plan to "follow the event in the media" and 12% to want to "buy tickets to attend the events", but 9% wish to attend the ceremony of opening, on site, 8% at the closing, and 6% are ready to participate in the Games as a volunteer or by applying for a job.

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For the rest, 65% of those polled are "favorable" to the opening ceremony on the Seine, and on the crucial question of security they are 72% to think that it will be well ensured in the other cities, but only 66 % For Paris.

Finally, for 75% of those questioned, the budget for the Paris-2024 Olympics will be exceeded, and for 53% France's medal total will be equivalent to those of the previous Games, against 26% of optimists (more medals) and 19% medals (less medals).

The survey was carried out on a sample of 1,019 people representative of the French population aged 18 and over, questioned by self-administered questionnaire on July 20 and 21, according to the quota method.