15:43 "During the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyongjang, South Korea (…)" Mmmh… sure. ;) Edit: I was made aware that the city which housed the olympics is pronounced very similarly to Pyongyang and so the information in the video was correct. Sorry for my mistake.
@@zeroid105 He said it right. Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea, whereas "PyeongCHang" (notice it is written slightly different) was the city in South Korea where the winter Olympics were held in 2018. A difference hard to spot due to us not being used to their phonemes.
For me, hosting the Olympic games was the best thing that happened to Rio de Janeiro. The entire port region has been renovated and is incredible. Transport was vastly improved with the expansion of the metro and the creation of a Tram that helped to revitalize the city's historic center. The Olympic village was built with private money. The Olympic park is now a public park with schools and sports classes. The stadiums are being used by local football teams. Unfortunately, only a negative image of the city is presented, which is far from the truth.
So isn't true that 5 massive stadiums were built and are hardly being used? A lot more than 5 were built so saying "stadiums are being used by local football teams" isn't justifying building 12 to use 7. That's a huge waste of money. Transport was improved for the Rio area, but how about the majority of Brazilians? How about the other cities inland that need it more.
@@markkostka6897that is incorrect information. Many of the arenas that were built were temporary - dismantled and rebuilt as public schools after the event - and the ones that remained are now part of the Brazilian Olympic training center, one of the resulting legacies of the Olympics. The two major large stadiums used for the event, the Maracana and the Olympic Stadium, are used regularly as well. Despite some hiccups - mainly due to corruption and embezzlement - the Olympic Games were largely positive for the city. Transportation in the city has been transformed with the new BRT, light rail and extended subway systems, and the new sports infrastructure really boosted the ability of the city to host events. I remember watching international news then, before the event, and seeing some ludricrous comments about "the capacity of Rio to host the event". What I found quite funny is that most of the concern focused on the number of tourists and whether Rio would be ready to host 'such a large event', instead of focusing on the Olympic infrastructure itself (the legit concern). Foreigners apparently have no clue that Rio hosts two annual events that actually attract more tourists than the Olympics itself: Rio's Carnival and New Year's Eve celebration. So dealing with the Olympics was nothing absurd to deal with.
It's a good reason for a government to invest in infrastructure without people complaining about the amount spent. More nations should use such events as reasons to rapidly expand useful infrastructure.
This video is spot on: the genius of the French is their ability to deliver exceptional value for money. They’ve pulled off the least expensive Olympics in over 30 years with amazing results. The key? They didn’t build hundreds of structures specifically for the Games at outrageous costs. Instead, they focused on: 1. Leveraging existing infrastructure and transportation that already prove their daily practical use-upgrading and renovating sports venues, conference centers, trains, traffic systems, etc. 2. Integrating the Olympics into the heart of the city by temporarily transforming iconic Parisian landmarks into competition zones (like Beach Volleyball, the Grand Palais, etc) at a very low cost. 3. Assessing the sports market and building temporary structures for anything that wouldn’t find use or funding after the Games. 4. Undertaking projects like the Seine purification to create summer swimming zones for tourists. In short, the French made the Olympics cost-effective yet highly efficient. This might just be the future: hosting events in emblematic city landmarks, using temporary structures where there’s no post-Olympics demand, and renovating or repurposing existing facilities. With this approach, even countries with modest budgets could consider hosting the Olympics.
Hey. I'm from rio and I can assure you that the Olympic legacy is not abandoned in the city. Some venues became schools, some are still in use and the one you showed on the video is where the music festival rock in rio takes place nowadays.
so, it's different than Athens buildings ? Athens was the most cited case, indeed in many countries summer and winter have procuced ruins buildings since the 60's...
as a french person it is always a pleasure to see how france and particularly the OG are seen from the outside. Everyone is so pessimistic about the games in France, critisizing every decision made. But from an external point of view, it all makes much more sense. Thanks for you work !
Sorry mate but spending 1.4 billion euros to barely make the Seine river swimmable is insane, especially considering that people in Mayotte or La Reunion are struggling getting fresh, drinkable water. On est pas pessimistes, on est choqué de l’utilisation de l’argent publique pour des “jeux” quand notre système de santé est défaillant, nos étudiants dorment dans des taudis et notre taux de pauvreté a doublé en dix ans.
I hope that the river Seine is clean enough for them to use it in the games, however even if it's not clean enough the city will end up with a cleaner river. This would not have happened without the olympics.
Something that wasn't said during the video is that it rained for months in Paris, from April to June leading to the river not being clean. But now that the weather is better the quality of the water is great, the mayor, the secretary of Sports, the paralympic flag holder and the president of the steering Committee for the Olympics have all jumped in it
It just doesn't work, 1B5 for this , ppl who went in it did it for cameras only obviously, took a lot of medication right after cause as you can guess ... the river is full of shit
@@LesGrosPiedsDeDeejay sure, but this Spring had historical rains and this was before the bassin at Gare d'Austerlitz was inaugurated. If it doesn't continue raining above historical levels, the river should hold "swimmable" standards
It s the best Olympics i have ever seen with so much joy, eye for details and beautiful use of surroundings. Kuddos to France, really! I m enjoying so so much.
As a 2022 Paralympian in alpine skiing and someone who has always loved the Games as a whole I really appreciate videos like this highlighting the logistics and preparation of the games themselves. I believe the Olympics and Paralympics are an extremely important event for all of us to bring the world together, and even though they can have major costs and be an inconvenience to some, I hope these games in Paris are a major success that will help spur the Olympic spirit onward.
The Tokyo Olympics had it rough because of the absence of fans and the revenue that would have come with them. But all things considered, the Olympics went smoothly, with the facilities made for the games still in use.
Fun to come back afterwards. Fact is the Paris olympics were a smashing success and the risks taken payed off, especially the venues in the city. Most stunning venues in olympic history.
Yeah. There’s going to be practically endless demand for public transit during the games from all the tourists - this is basically the only acceptable time to do a fare hike. Natives won’t be significantly affected because it’s temporary, so they’ll only spend like twenty euro more over the whole games probably. More if they use more public transit obviously. But for the city this will double the earnings from the tourists on transit, which is money that can be funneled back into the massive Grand Paris Express plans to help speed up construction.
Paris expects 500,000 people daily to be attending the events. Assuming 2/3 take public transit (which I think is likely, because there’s no way Paris has 500,000 extra cars for rent sitting around), that’s 660,000 euro a day extra generated, for a total of 11.2 million, JUST from the games themselves. Tourists wishing to take the opportunity outside competition times to visit the rest of the city will generate even more trips. I think 15-20 million extra generated by doubling fares is a reasonable number, which isn’t much on the scale of Paris’ expansion plans’ cost, but is regardless still a quite large amount of money, especially compared to running public transit for FREE during the Olympics.
@@addisonbaker8211great point. In addition, locals have the option to buy monthly pass to avoid the price hike. If they don’t use the public transit enough to buy a monthly pass, it means they don’t use transit much and thus only a small temporary hit for them
the more I hear about the paris olympics, the more I'm interested in the event. It's been long known that the event is an unprofitable expensive mess, but seeing this one being used to work on the issues of the city is amazing. But it also makes me wonder why this couldn't be done any time in the last half a century...
The Rio Olympics only happened in 2016, and unless you are writing from the future, the stadiums have not been abandoned for a decade, let alone "well over a decade"...
@@vinny7114 So, basically, there are very few abandoned structures in Rio, especially because it was an edition that involved many temporary structures. What gave the impression of abandonment was mainly the delay in dismantling and reconverting some structures. Everything in games today in poor condition includes: - BMX Center, Olympic Tennis Center, Rio Municipal Velodrome (Which is undergoing renovations). All other structures that remain are in use and very well maintained. The big problem with the Rio games is much more that they were a tool for a very violent process of real estate speculation. But this is also happening in Paris, as it happened in London, or in Barcelona back then.
Just making things clear : the homeless of Paris were merely deported, and left to struggle even more in provincial towns, due to the lack of support networks.
As an American who watched the opening ceremony I have to say I was truly amazed. It had to be the most beautiful and impressive Olympics opening I’ve ever had to witness in my 45 years of life and so did my 70 yo father !
Where the hell did you find Tokyo generated nearly six billion in revenue? No way did they come close to that based off losing over $800 million in spectator ticket revenue due to the pandemic. Cite your sources bruh.
Y'all do realize that you the point was to show how much they generated income versus how much they spent. Viewing through that lense Tokyo did not make 6 billion after breaking even, they did not recuperate their spent money on the Olympics. Furthermore you dummy, there is a source list in the description, the source they cited was the 2nd one. Please do your due diligence before complaining in a fit of emotion. Thank you
Thank god Paris is in a developed country, and wont face the same problems as those olympics in developing countries.... You know... Like London and Tokyo... famously underdeveloped
Madrid already proposed to use existing stadiums and submitted a more climate-friendly bid when climate-friendly wasn't still a thing and cities were fighting to build the largest / newest / most expensive stadium. The bid was famously and controversially rejected.
Madrid did no such thing lol they just built stuff before being given the olympics beacause they love to spend money on construction, with scams like the ciudad de la justicia or the 7b metro which is making houses sink
The poor ratings of the Tokyo Olympics in the US was also due to the time difference which was not at all favorable as most of Japan daytime occurs during the American night: 4PM in Tokyo is 3 AM in NYC or 6 AM in LA.
The Olympics it's about sports and never been about religion . Go visit the the museum " Le Louvre " in paris and you will see were all the images from the opening come . To se people make art and then been treatened by radical religious . Educate yourself reed a book , go to a museum .
The president of the organizing committee of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, accused of bribery, had his sentence annulled. Governor of the state of Rio (complaint appears, 0:19) has nothing to do with the mayor of the city of Rio. And it was Rio, the city that organized the Olympic games
I doubted this channel information when he missed pronounced the French city neighborhood town's names correctly and he cannot pronounce the city most famous for French wine
Swimming in the sewer doesn't seem like a good way to reinvent things 😂😂😂 Even Rio managed to clean its bay to the point that dolphins and whales have returned to it
Honestly it makes me sad. Brazil hosted a beautiful Olympics and kept being slammed with critics. I remember the closing ceremony was warm and representing the country. When Tokyo Olympics happened I realized how much I took it for granted. Tokyo’s ceremonies were underwhelming.
@@msch7620The Olympics should be celebrated in the same location every time,period; anything else is just an unsustainable waste of money. People are starting to catch up with that fact. That's why for the 2024 Olympics, only 2 cities bid. And the excuse that you need an event to justify investing in the local infrastructure is just disgusting.
Cara, é verdade A abertura foi bonita Mas rolou muita corrupção na organização do evento Alem de obras que não foram entregas até hoje... Gastos exorbitantes Até sem sentido Já que não trouxa quase nenhuma vantagem pro rio Trouxe visibilidade pro brasil Que já era conhecido Mas não apaga as outras coisa que aconteceram o pessoal que passar pano Ter que trazer olimpíadas pro rio para fazer a obrigação é de cair o c da bunda As olimpíadas de 2024 só 2 países disputaram para sediar Que foi Paris e Los Angeles Isso diz muito viu
So far they're amazing. The venues are the most beautiful ever. Céline Dion on the Eiffel Tower was the most beautiful and emotional moment of the olympic opening ceremonies ever. Nothing made before can compare to that. The ceremony in general might not be the best ever but it was nice to see something new.
The French electricity grid is already 99% carbon free thanks to nuclear and hydro. Wind and solar are not a climate improvement in France. Actually solar CO2 emissions are 400% worse than nuclear according to UN IPPC figures. (48grams / kwh for solar and 12 grams for nuclear)
The situation in Brazil was entirely different from other cases. Brazil suffered a parliamentary coup. The president was removed (acquitted in court 7 years later) 10 days after the end of the Olympic Games. As a result, the entire body of managers at the sports ministry was changed. And also all the planning and destination of the facilities. The new government had no commitment to sport, as the previous one had.
Whoever believes that France is powering the grid with wind and solar energy needs to rethink this. Yes, they may probably increase the part of these renewables but most electricity in France is still and will for a long time be nuclear power
bro what do you mean nuclear power pollutes infinitely less than "renewables" that are almost impossible to recycle and use rare ressources to be built
I’d love to watch a video about the logistics of the Paris 2024 opening ceremonies, like the timing of the boats and recorded parts would be cool to learn about
This is called social business. It is the idea of Professor Dr. Mohammed Yunus. He is the main adviser of the Paris Olympics this year. He is from Bangladesh. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for uplifting millions of people out of property with his idea of microcredit/Microfinance. Now he is working with more than 100 companies and about 53 countries with this social business idea. Just two days ago, he took oath as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. We Bangladeshi are proud of you sir.
Revenue can't be negative... and you say that the Rio buildings have been abandoned for over a decade, even though the Rio Olympics were eight years ago? This is not even a minute and a half in, cmon
@@KhneeferYes, revenue can be negative in certain situations. This typically occurs when a company experiences a decrease in sales or incurs expenses that exceed its revenue, resulting in a negative net income. It's important for businesses to carefully manage their finances to avoid negative revenue situations.
I am French and I live in Barcelona. There are just too many images of Barcelona in this video about Paris. It's just strange. Europe is not all the same like "meh, Paris, Barcelona, same shit" … just strange
Like... The stadiums are not only used to soccer but shows, events, etc. Also, there were cancelations on the olimpics due fecal residues on water, so... why they can spend billions and brazilians can't? Not only that, athletes hated the beds because they were uncomfortable, there are complaining about the food and other problems on the village. At least Brazil worried with the athletes
That's a pretty common theme in OBF videos. It's the main thing that stops me subscribing to them. Also the fact that their entire style of narration, animation and storytelling is a blatant ripoff of far more accurate and successful channels. I encourage the team here to actually branch out and find their own style, but it doesn't look like that'll happen.
I’ve been critical of previous summer Olympic cities because it was obvious they were using the event as an excuse to improve the cities infrastructure, which is the reason corruption happens and costs skyrocket. There should be a rotation of cities that can host the Olympics thus minimizing cost…Paris would be one of those cities for me. An Olympic event in Paris once every 20yrs as oppose to once every 100yrs. All that said, I’m definitely watching the games.
LA 2028, will be hosting summer Olympics for the 3rd time, LA made profits previously. Salt lake City will be hosting Winter Olympics 2035, also it's 3rd time hosting.
Paris reinvented The Games by having an opening ceremony with a budget of two bucks. The most embarrasing thing on tv I've ever seen. And by having crazy ambitions like expecting contestants swimming in a very polluted river. Paris also reinvented the games by having a complete failure to deliver the infrastructure promised like new train lines. The first time in over 48 years this has happened.
man do be mad, it was however an objectively interresting opening ceremony, your opinion to think it was embarrasing, I'm however quite glad the event represented france past and present history, an history of revolution inclusion and had the balls to make a parody of the cène, even if as we all know christians can't take a parody without being mad, christians or any other religion I'd say even
@@justsomeweebwithamustache2674 You do not have to be a Christian to think that the parody was disgusting. The parody mocked Christianity, and the religion means a lot in the lives of billions of people around the world. It is not inclusion if you mock a major religion of the world. They showed a naked man with his balls exposed on live TV, which was very inappropriate because there were millions of children worldwide who watched the opening ceremony. The Olympics were always supposed to be politically neutral, but this time, they made it about a certain agenda.
The venues in Paris are the most beautiful ever seen in any Olympics. The trains issue was the result of massive sabotage. Everything got fixed in 36 hours. I hated the woke part of the ceremony but there was a thunderdtorm right above the city. Try at least to be fair and factual but haters gonna hate i guess...
@@NicolasViard-kc9dm that I can agree with, well I didn't hate the woke part, I actualy think it's gonna become more and more "normal" with time, but that's up to personal opinion
The fine line danger is about climate-friendly : good intentione, but in the olympic village, few meat 🥩and air cooler ❄seems is a problem. Fine balance of adventage and disadventage.
A billion and a half Euro spent on cleaning some rivers in a populated area, seems better than spending ten billion on single use facilities. (Of course, why can't governments do such improvements anyway.)
Thanks for your video and the quality itself is insanely good compare to those flow on the internet these days. I appreciate your work and it does inspire me to study on my own. Wish to see more like this!
My theory is that every country that participates should put an agreed amount/percentage into a kitty every Olympics, and there needs to be a ceiling on costs, with the priority being the sports, not the opening ceremony. Another option is to have a fixed Olympic set up somewhere, with all countries chipping in to maintain it and one country each time nominated to set up the 'flavour' of it.
"minimising its environmental impact" one line later... "and hosting events as far as French Polynesia" So you're telling me NO ONE sees the very obvious contradiction here?
Transporting the athletes there shouldn't even need a full extra flight... So the environmental impact shouldn't be any larger, or barely, than if they didn't held the competition there. Flights to Tahiti and local hosting accommodations are extremely pricey, which de facto severely limits the number of Olympic visitors in Tahiti to barely more than usual. It's not like they'd transport millions to the other side of the Earth. I'm not even sure if there's 100 or 150 people including athletes and staff. They'll probably group everyone on the same flight combo. Anyway, Tahiti would not allow an invasion of tourists for Olympic surfing events, they are really restrictive in the number of flights and tourists they receive, keeping the destination as exclusive as possible, even during the Olympics.
@@KyrilPG It's a scheme to strenghten imperial rule over Polynesia and have everyone sees it as part of France since the independantist parties won the elections there.
People in the comments not realizing that for the Olympics, a new tower was build which damaged/destroyed parts of it. There was already a tower there that is used every year for the walk competition there. This was also against the wishes of locals
Energy from solar and wind in cloudy Europe… If there is one thing Europeans are good at, it is greenwashing. France is big on nuclear power, which is technically carbon neutral.
There are tons of solar and wind electricity in Europe... It still works when it's cloudy. There's even a large solar array on the roof of the aquatic center. In the Southern half of France, there are plenty of houses equipped with solar panels. There are giant wind farms along the European coasts, and you don't need any sun for that.
Stop posting lies, you need to visit the city of Rio before telling this bunch of lies. The current management of Rio's city hall has changed this, the Rio port has changed, the city has more transport, the stadiums are being used as sports schools, the Olympic park is now a public park. You post anything to make money, the Rio Olympics changed the face of the city. I would be ashamed to post lies. Go to the Rio de Janeiro city hall page and look.
The Olympics should be celebrated in the same location every time, period; anything else is just an unsustainable waste of money. People are starting to catch up with that fact. That's why for the 2024 Olympics, only 2 cities bid. And the excuse that you need an event to justify investing in the local infrastructure is just disgusting.
It's a French company, Atos that takes care of the informatics systems of the Olympics games. And this treat was always there. In Rio there were massive attacks, that nearly. Took the system down, but it was kept secret
Doubling the metro ticket price was to encourage the tourists to buy passes instead which are way cheaper and this way avoid queues inside the stations.
These are reasonable costs, such a river should be clean. Not just for the Olympics. What do you think London paid in the 19th century to get the cesspit called the Thames halfway clean again? By today's standards, it was more than €1.4 billion. Perhaps Olympic cities should soon be selected that have numerous clean bathing lakes within the city limits, such as Berlin, which has 3,000 lakes available in its urban region.
You had to use a photoshopped image to imply Rio's Olympics was bad. That really shows how strong your claims are. At least in Rio people could swim without getting sick as in the Seine
Wtf is this video ? The dude is saying reinventing while showing horrendous French’s administration and will to pay the less possible. - workers aren’t paid - most of artists aren’t paid - security is taken from all cities in France putting them at risk - raising security has a cost so asking other countries is better lol even if there will be communication issue - Paris had the advantage of the previous OG - more environmental friendly, what a load of bs. There is no AC because it increases the cost. Just look at the directors, etc they have AC and let them turn on in their cars You all trying to put under the rug the issues of this OG should be ashamed because you are just pushing and applauding work without salary, no true environment help (as athletes are coming with their AC too) Hilarious
That river is just one example of how unhygienic the French truly are. The condition of the Seine has been growing more and more horrendous throughout the past decade.
Everytime a Olympic event is held, there will be talk about how its economics wont work. That is because they are moving from city to city building infrastructure. Rather if they should rotate among few cities in each continent so that existing infrastructure is utilised
Sadly it may comes to that if no one wants to host, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. Plenty of cities and countries are lining up to host the next few Summer Olympics, with bids confirmed from Indonesia, India, Turkey and Chile.
New countries want to have us see their (sometimes) newly achieved status on the World scene. Only if it becomes too expensive they will not do it. But then watch Qatar's World Cup, in the middle of the desert they built sport stadiums and accommodation just to show off, so I guess there will be someone willing to that also in the future.
@@FlorinArjocu Look no further than Saudi Arabia wanting to host the 2034 FIFA World Cup. Personally I think that should go to China instead because at least they have stadia already built.
Unfair advantage to these cities, missed opportunity to show the culture of other places as if continents are unified blobs of the same culture and have the infrastructure in place improved.
WAOW really well documented, congrats!! I just regret that you didn't talk about one of the most controversial aspects: Israël is welcome to the olympic games, while illegally invading other countries since 1967. Russia as a nation not represented is 100% understandable, but this favor to Isräel is outrageous.
Making it clear upfront: I absolute adore Paris, and France. Gorgeous country, vibrant city. However, Its already clear that these games will be chaotic, starting with the rail havoc caused to visitors, the endless list of diversions in the city to accommodate everything around the attractions, where the right thing would be to have proper facilities to host each game's categories. Getting some of the aquatic sports and athletes into swimming in a river with fecal coliforms? You gotta be joking us. Comparing these games, to past games like Rio and London, honestly, is beyond me. The real name for this video is RECALQUE. Only Brazilians will understand. Go learn! 😂 Last, but not least, let's see how much the public transport tickets will return to pre-olympics price, so residents don't end with the burden. Not to mention the eviction of refugees to fill up the hotel rooms at extorting prices. Ppl are calling this to the be "inclusion" games.. it couldn't be far from that. 1000€ tickets to watch any attraction? Spare me.
"reinventing" lol so far two athletes got sick after having to compete in the dirty waters of the seine (not to mention that training has been postponed more then once because of the conditions of the water), people have complained about not having enough/proper food in the olympic village, others were left behind for hours after training in the skateboarding facilities and some had to go back to their dorms by skate because the bus broke down, some of the tennis athletes had to use ice to cool down because of how hot the bus was and they weren't allowed to open the windows, just this week another athlete decided to sleep in some kind of square in the village because the room was too hot. a lot of athletes from a certain delegation decided to go to hotels because they had to share a single bathroom between 10 people. I love the olympics but its just shameful how we have to accept everything as perfect, smart and beautiful because it comes from an european country. you can cut down on costs, I agree with that, but not giving proper structure to people that have been training for this moment for years is just shameful. and I didn't even say a word about the messy opening ceremony, how people paid thousands to be able to see just a few minutes of boats going down the river, in the rain (not just the ones that wanted to watch it, but all the athletes, the press, everyone).
When there is new sports like Olympic String Collection are started , you sure will not make any money. White Elephant buildings allways seem to be made. An example of spending/planning to spend too much.
