500 days before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (July 26-August 11), Emmanuel Macron received the thirty partner companies for lunch at the Élysée on Tuesday, before meeting with Tony Estanguet , the president of the organizing committee and Thomas Jolly, the artistic director of the opening ceremony.
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The President of the Republic then met at the end of the afternoon with five hundred civil servants involved in the organization of the Games.
During a speech at the Prefecture of Paris, he said: “
We are going to receive the world.
Our challenges: being on time and with excellence in terms of organization, meeting sustainability, security, heritage, inclusiveness.
We won't be perfect, given our urban transport network, but we have to continue.
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And to ensure: “
It is a formidable sporting event but also a human mobilization that the world will watch.
We must continue to involve the population.
Legacy should help us do that.
Making the Seine and the Marne swimmable is a legacy of these Games.
We have to be innovative so that everyone feels associated with these Olympic and Paralympic Games.
“Emmanuel Macron then assured:”
I ring the general mobilization, do not release anything.
You have to put in the maximum amount of energy, give it your all.
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Before concluding: “
There will be two, three subjects on which we will have to put pressure.
France must be able to give the most beautiful image…
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