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Olympic Village under construction (end of February)

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The athletes will be staying in the Olympic Village for weeks during the Summer Games in Paris.

If you get closer, there are enough contraceptives available: a good 300,000 free condoms.

Laurent Michaud, the director of the Olympic Village, announced this in an interview with Sky News.

At the last Summer Games in Tokyo, contacts were prohibited due to the corona pandemic.

Contrary to tradition, there were no condoms.

In Paris, in addition to the free condoms in the Olympic Village, there will also be an athletes' bar.

However, champagne and other alcoholic drinks are not served there.

The Summer Olympics will take place in Paris from July 26th to August 11th.

At the end of February, French President Emmanuel Macron inaugurated the Olympic Village.

At the symbolic handover of the keys, Macron spoke of the “adventure of a century”.

The newly built 82 buildings in the north of Paris will accommodate over 14,000 athletes and their employees.

In addition to sport and cultural exchange, the focus is also on the security concept for the games.

Due to the security situation and other organizational problems, significantly fewer spectators are expected to attend the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics than originally announced.

The 100,000 paying spectators directly on the Seine are likely to be joined by around 220,000 more people with free tickets in the upper bank area, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said at the end of January.

Fuss over bag with security details

For the first time in their history, the Olympic Games will not open in a stadium, but in an open-air ceremony on the Seine.

More than 100 boats carrying the international athlete delegations will sail down the river on a six-kilometer route - past Parisian landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower.

Heads of state and government from all over the world are also expected to attend the ceremony.

At the end of February there was a significant security faux pas when a bag containing a computer and USB sticks containing sensitive data relating to the games' security concept was stolen from the Gare du Nord train station in Paris.

The bag belongs to an engineer from the Paris city administration, as the British “Guardian” reported, among others.

The engineer was sitting on a regional train and had stowed the bag in a luggage compartment above his seat.

Since the train was late, the man wanted to change to another train.

He apparently noticed that his bag had been stolen.

According to the man, the data carriers were said to contain the plans of the Paris city police, the so-called Police Municipale.

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