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We are ready" for the 2024 Olympic Games, said Tuesday the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo a little more than a year of the global sporting event, while an IOC official had estimated Monday that the host city had "still a lot of work to do".
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Yes, we are ready, "said on France Inter the elected socialist, for whom "a year of the games, in general, it is stress" and "we say that we will not succeed".
But in the case of Paris, "we are in the budgets and we are on time," she added.
The president of the coordination commission of the Paris Olympics, Pierre-Olivier Beckers, said during a visit of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to the headquarters of the organizing committee of the Games that it was necessary to "continue to seek optimizations" in order to "maintain the budget".
With 417 days to go before the Olympics, "there is still a lot of work to be done," said Beckers, for whom the Organising Committee of the Games (Cojo) will have a "tense work to the end" on the budgetary plan.
The budget of the organising committee, notably due to inflation, was increased to €4.4 billion in December. This budget is based on ticket revenues, sponsorship revenues and a contribution from the IOC.
According to a provisional report of the Court of Auditors on the Olympics revealed Monday by the daily Le Monde, it indicated that "substantial uncertainties remain, especially for domestic partnerships".
In particular, the signing of a first-rate partnership with LVMH has been awaited for many months.
Asked about the cost of tickets, which is causing a wave of criticism, Ms. Hidalgo said that it was necessary to "accept an economic model" that allows to have "50% of tickets sold at less than 50 euros".
The PS mayor recalls that the opening ceremony will be an opportunity to offer "several hundred thousand free tickets".