“The Games are a wonderful event but they have an enormous cost for the communities,” summarizes Fatoumata Sow, the first deputy mayor of Colombes, responsible among other things for the Olympics.
When I took office in 2020, I understood that the Olympic Games would have very, very significant financial consequences for communities.
Consequences of which we were not necessarily aware, neither when the city applied for and obtained the Games in 2017, nor later.
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Colombes won two timpani.
The municipal swimming pool will serve as a training center for artistic swimming, while the Yves-du-Manoir departmental stadium will host field hockey events.
The city of nearly 89,000 inhabitants therefore had to quickly adapt to Olympic time to receive hundreds, even thousands of athletes and spectators.
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