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It was a day in October or November 1968. Cecilio Sanchez no longer remembers the exact date, but he keeps in mind the time when he moved with his parents into an apartment in the Olympic Village in Grenoble.
“We discovered what a modern neighborhood was, everything was impeccable, with beautiful and bright apartments, surrounded by green spaces
,” enthuses this Grenoble resident of Spanish origin, today president of the Neighborhood Union. of the Olympic Village.
The family and their five children settled on the ground floor of one of the eight large towers that dominate the neighborhood.
“I was 17 years old and I remember the feeling of pride of living where the athletes had passed.”
From his window, beyond the garden located in front of the apartment, the young man can see the large wasteland on which the ephemeral Olympic Stadium was located.
It was there that, a few months earlier, General de Gaulle came to officially open the Olympic Games...
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