The Paris Olympics, scheduled from July 26 to August 11, 2024, risk upsetting the summer sports program somewhat that year.

Thus, to avoid "the dispersion of the security forces" at this time, "the arrival of the Tour de France will be a little early and will probably not take place in Paris but rather in Nice", declared Amélie Oudéa-Castéra at the microphone from France info.

“We will probably rearrange the elements of the calendar that can be,” she added.

This year, the Tour de France arrived on July 21 in Paris, four days before the start of the Olympics in two years.

Never since 1905 has this mythical cycling event arrived outside the capital.

Contacted by AFP, the town hall of Nice "confirms nothing for the moment".

“It is a working hypothesis among others,” qualified a source close to the executive.

Prudhomme maintains (barely) the mystery

"We have excellent relations with the city of Nice, which proved to be very solid in 2020 (when the Tour was postponed to September due to the pandemic)," the director of the Tour told AFP. Christian Prudhomme.

"We are discussing a number of things with the town hall of Nice," he added without further details.

In an interview with the daily

L'Equipe

, Emmanuel Macron assured that the State would ensure that "all the cultural or sporting events that take place during this period, such as the Tour de France for example, take place either before or after , so as not to mobilize the police".

The question of the mobilization of the internal security forces is a major challenge for these Olympics which will be held in two years.

There are also risks of a possible lack of private security guards at this time.

The Ministry of the Interior will create eleven new mobile units for the Olympics, the Elysée had indicated on Monday following the Olympic Council.

"We will be able to cope," assured Emmanuel Macron to

L'Equipe

.

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