Thomas Bach: “Organizing the Olympic Games is perhaps the most complex project in the world”

A few days before the lighting of the flame, in Olympia, Thomas Bach, visiting the headquarters of the Organizing Committee for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, a few hundred meters from the Stade de France, looked through the news of 'a project that has emerged from the plans and entered a concrete phase to be built in the city. Relaxed or more serious, the German leader did not ignore the context, the difficulties, the criticisms and the scale of the task remaining to be accomplished.

LE FIGARO. - 100 days before the event which will mark the return of spectators to the Games after two editions hit by Covid, is Paris ready for the Games?

Thomas Bach. - Yes. On all the plans? Yes. Because the Organizing Committee is doing an extraordinary job. The cooperation with the IOC is perhaps the closest ever. Because we are in a situation where the Paris Games were aligned with our Olympic agenda

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