Jobs, pure water, handicap, inheritance… Anne Hidalgo has often had the opportunity to hammer it home, the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games must serve and accelerate the transformation of the city. The mayor of Paris freshly and widely re-elected had been discreet on the front of the Olympics in recent months. On July 8, it received a visit from Thomas Bach, the President of the International Olympic Committee, accompanied by Tony Estaguet, the President of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games.
The opportunity to dive back into the issue and assess it in the light of the Covid-19 health crisis and its economic impacts. Anne Hidalgo, who accompanied the Olympic project to Lima, the land of choice in September 2017, should receive the flame and the Olympic flag as tradition dictates during the closing ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games (23 July-8 August 2021).
"A complete review of the project, that is to say what is on time and what is not"
Anne HidalgoUntil then, as she highlighted in L'Equipe , the mayor of Paris intends to follow the project step by step. This Saturday, she summed up at the inauguration of the 19th edition of Paris Plage in the company of Pierre Rabadan, the former Stade Français player who became his new Sports Assistant: “The OCOG must understand that he cannot decide for yourself. The Paris Games come in a post-Covid period after the postponement of the Tokyo Games. It is a state affair, not just a matter of sports federations, even if the Games are primarily sports events. " And L'Equipe to indicate that the mayor of Paris, also president of the Solidéo (Company responsible for the delivery of Olympic works) would have asked for September or October at the latest "a complete review of the project, that is say what is on schedule and what is not. "
Tony Estanguet in an interview with Figaro reminded about the re-election of Anne Hidalgo: "This result allows continuity with the mayor of Paris, it is good news for us. Anne Hidalgo carried the project, she knows it well, she wants it to succeed. We work well together. During the summer, we will also meet the newly elected officials, particularly in Seine-Saint-Denis, with whom we will be working until 2024. ” Aware of the stakes, the president of Cojo announced: "We will have to adapt to a new context while maintaining the same level of ambition, for example by reviewing a certain number of prerequisites, which until now were unchanged in the specifications. charges. This day (July 8) was very rich with the President of the Republic then the mayor of Paris. We discussed the schedule and we agreed to revisit this project around the end of the year and see how to strengthen it. I proposed to suggest a number of options to optimize the project in the light of the new context. ” Anne Hidalgo slipped into this calendar, stressed that the municipality intends to replace itself and remain at the heart of the Games.
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