What will make these Olympics great, is that they are using existing classic sites like Versailles and the Eiffel tower to host events! As long as the security is good, it should be a huge success !
I really love this appproach where they try to avoid excessive and decadent building projects to rot afterwards and instead try to make the city as a whole a better place. I hope the IOC becomes reasonable enough to allow this style of Olympics into the future.
The Paris and Los Angeles Olympics will be successful because of this. Neither of the cities are building new stadiums and are using existing infrastructure. LA doesn't even need to build a new swimming venue or Olympic Village (unlike Paris) since they will use USC and UCLA's campuses.
@JuanWayTrips That's not exactly that : Karen Bass, Los Angeles' Mayor, cane in early March to visit the Paris athletes village in Saint-Denis as an example to take inspiration from to reduce the housing crisis (her own words). The Paris 2024 athletes' village has been designed as a super ecological transit oriented neighborhood that will be first used as the athletes' village. Instead of the usual opposite : designed as athletes' village and difficultly modified to be a neighborhood later, often having a rather poor future. Developers tailored the village primarily to the needs of future long-term occupants rather than primarily to the athletes' needs and built it with a subterranean geothermal plant. The modifications will then be very minimal, and the housing will be mixed : partly private, partly social, partly half social. About a third of the apartments will be sold on the private market. So the village is just a neighborhood in waiting that would have been built anyway, the Olympics only accelerated the process. The neighborhood is located near the largest hub station of the new humongous Grand Paris Express transit extension. As for the Olympic Aquatic Center, Paris didn't need a new swimming pool for the Olympics and it was decided against building a massive arena capable of hosting 15 thousand spectators as it wouldn't have been useful past the games and would have been a huge expense. Instead, they've built an Olympic swimming venue with a 3500 max capacity that would be perfect for most main events in the next 25 years and to use a temporary reusable pool structure in the huge and already existing Paris la Défense Arena for the events requiring a 15k+ capacity. The Greater Paris sector in which the Aquatic Center is built (93) is the least equipped in swimming pools per capita. So, the new pool helps to solve this major need. Paris was lacking a major swimming equipment in its Northeastern quadrant, so they've built it near the already existing Stade de France and used the opportunity to value a former derelict industrial lot and depollute it. Nothing that wasn't expressly needed in Paris past the Olympics was built. They've used the Olympics to fund equipment and neighborhoods that were severely needed anyway beside the Olympics. It seems like LA is going to do the same in 2028 by using a temporary pool inside an arena for the high attendance events requiring at least a 15k spectator capacity. Karen Bass seemed to have hinted at that during her recent visit in Paris : building necessary equipment or neighborhoods for LA and briefly using them for the games before their intended long-term use. So, LA may still end up building a village (media or else) in the same manner as Paris, to help with the housing crisis. She didn't just come for the show, she really wanted to use the 2028 games as an opportunity to develop housing and looked at what Paris did in that respect. From what I've heard, a delegation from LA spent some time in Paris going over all the details of the Paris approach to the games and taking notes with the Paris Olympic organization committee and will also be present during the games this summer as observers. The main subjects they were particularly interested in were ecoconstruction, crowds management, public transit, and cycling. It's pretty much the same for the media village : a new neighborhood was built near Le Bourget airport (Paris 3rd airport aimed mostly at business aviation and location where the famous Paris airshow is held). The new neighborhood will participate to reduce the housing crisis and was built right next to a recently opened rapid transit station as TOD.
The French invented the modern olympic games, the first event happened in Greece, the 2nd event in France, and it hasn't stopped since. 100 years after it happened in Paris, it comes back to Paris, this is a great thing. Many surprises this summer, I can't wait.
As a French don't go, every parisian I know will not be there because the security is (knowing Macron) lackluster, the official police has already said that their anti kamikaze drone protocole won't be ready for this summer. And I won't even talk about how the city has doubled the Métro's ticket prizes just for the occasion. The Games were predicted to cost around 4 or 6 billions but since it's Macron's personal little dream it is estimated to cost more than 10 billions € !!!
@@twentyfivemelody Bullshit ! Government has nothing to do with olympics. In the video itself they speak about the budget maybe you didnt watch it ? probably the cheapest in ages. One of the main. factors of price increase is .... Inflation Huge part of budget is not on the event itself but legacy. For instance the olympic village which will become a mixed neighborhood, or transport infrastrucure and the seine clean up. You are frankly ingnorant about the issue and you focus WAY to mch on " Macron bad " rhetoric . Stop watching random political influencers and go read serious reports : Cour de compte for instance said budget is well managed Paris was awarded the games in september 2017 you think it macron who came up with it ? another proof you didnt go deep in the subject and then you come here on interntaional audiences to display your ignorance ? Please leave the olympics alone , stop hoping for the worste and try to be optimistic once
There's one big mistake though, or at least a confusion. The Grand Paris Express project wasn't meant for the Olympics, and it never was expected to be completed before the games. With the bid to organize the event, the Paris games committee proposed to use the first parts of the Grand Paris Express to be delivered. These parts only included line M14's extensions and the first section of M16/M17. Only the second part (M16/M17) of what was expected will be missing and they knew that for years, so they even decided to *not* rush the M16/M17 section and instead to focus on other things, while also relocating elsewhere some events that were supposed to be served by the missing section. In the meantime, other transit expansions will open between March and June, namely : 1) M11's Eastern extension (as part of GPE, just like M14's Northern and Southern extensions). 2) The first phase of RER E's Western extension up to Nanterre la Folie (just West of La Défense, only meters away from the huge arena) and 2 other major stations. 3) And tramway line T3b Western extension to Porte Dauphine and the Bois de Boulogne. That's about 34 kilometers of new extensions opening this spring, of which roughly 30km are in tunnels. Let's not forget the dozen of tramway lines that opened in the last decade or decade and a half, with 2 lines opening in 2023 alone. Plus a major renewal and capacity increase of the trains. Like the new MP14 trains of line M14 now having 8 cars instead of 6 and with a frequency of 42 or 44 trains per side per hour. New trains on M11, huge new RER NG trains on RER E... One of the main points of Paris 2024's bid was cycling. With a goal of total "cyclability" that includes thousands of additional "Vélib" station-based bikeshare bicycles, thousands of additional bicycles in free roaming by private operators and a bunch of additional temporary and itinerant "Vélib" base stations. They expect at least 10% of the events' public to ride bikes and other forms of soft mobility. As for the transit ridership, you have to keep in mind a very French and Parisian specificity : French people tend to take major holidays in droves. Especially in Paris where the city sees a substantial drop in local population and transit ridership during the summer. The apex being in August when the city feels empty and you could almost see tumbleweeds on the platforms of certain lines. 😂 So, for the Olympics, authorities have set the transit system to super peak mode instead of the usual much lighter summer service pattern. As an example, on a normal weekday during the year the RER line A carries up to 1.5 million passengers, and the B line a little less. But during the summer, they often see their ridership reduced to a quarter or less of that. That's plenty of capacity for Olympic visitors to use! Which will be spread over far wider time-frames, contrary to usual working weekdays where ridership is more concentrated on 2 two intense peak periods, the morning and evening rush. Just picture the reinforced super-peak operations but all day long, it should be able to cope with the Olympic crowds. The only real question is how the organization committee will spread the "human flow" (600k as of today) for the opening ceremony and if they'll assign specific schedules, and metro and walking paths to spectators according to their tribune or zone location. It's a bit unclear in the video but the entire opening ceremony will take place on the Seine river along a 6 or 7 kilometer stretch, with spectators on the lower and higher banks and the bridges. The Paralympic opening ceremony will take place on the Trocadero gardens or Concorde, I can't remember.
As a little correction of what you wrote, the extension of M11 has nothing to see with GPE, it doesn't really change the fact that it is being done before the Olympics.
@@jeremydiez2528 Yes M11's extension is part of the overall tally of the GPE, even if most of the extension is built solely by RATP. M14's extension too is part if the GPE even if a major part of it is built by RATP and only a minor section of it is built by the SGP. The official scope of the GPE consists of 4 new lines and 2 major extensions of existing lines, 84 stations, 68 of which are on the new lines. The fact that it is built before the Olympics doesn't make it linked to the games in any way, shape or form. The entire GPE project was launched way before Paris was even a candidate host city for the Olympics.
Using existing sites and facilities, coupled with temporary venues looks like a good idea regardless of the revenue savings. Some cities (such as Montreal here in Canada) sometimes wind up with outsized venues they don't or can't use. Sometimes these sites are not finished in time for the Olympics and wind up never really getting completed. One of the reasons the Olympic committee is finding it harder and harder to find cities that will host The Olympics.
As a French and there are not many I the comments, the biggest issue for our governments is to change people minds because many are against the OG and believe it will be a disaster. And this negativity doesn't help to plan such a big event. There is so much communication done right now to excite people for the OG. I myself believe it's gonna be very nice on TV and that's what will touch most people around the world, and make the most profitable gains for France.
@@sacha339 de loin de quoi ? le désastre de l'euro 2016 ? ah non c'etait pas un desastre ... La coupe du monde de rugby ? ah ba non plus... Ca suffit le pessimisme.. oui il y aura 2/3 couacs sasn doute mais bon pas la peine d'en rajouter
This a good video. Factual, well paced, well voiced. Really good, appropriate photos with good labels and graphics. No filler, no repetition. Good job.
I think it's really exciting that many sports will take place outside or in the middle of Paris. Paris is known for its creativity! It's going to be great! I'm excited. 🥇 🥈 🥉
Ah man, this made me realize my view of time is all weird still with covid throwing off the 2020 Olympics. Hopefully they clean the city and have secure accommodation! And likewise I really hope the visitors will be respectful and not cause any problems…
I was there this past summer lol. The Seine still looked pretty gross lol. Honestly didnt realize till after I got back that they were hosting the Olympics and had these huge plans in place, though I do remember seeing the big Olympic rings somewhere. I guess I didnt put 2 and 2 together, but I do distinctly remember thinking that if I put my hand in the Seine, it would probably just be bones left. Hopefully they can pull it off, cuz it would have been really nice and unique to swim in it.
I have been to Paris. The rush hour is brutal. I have to wait six trains to hop on. And the river for swimming competition, I won’t be surprised in ten years that something strange growing on their backs.
@@doug8263 No, it takes 3 years to paint the Eiffel Tower. The last campaign started in 2019 was stopped during the covid period and then they discovered that the old layers of paint to be removed were containing too much lead so protective measures for workers slowed down the work. It will only be finished in 2026.
Would love to see a car-free Paris for the Olympics. Lots of walking and biking in the beautiful summer heat, and a non-stop stream of buses would be greatly efficient with no personal use cars in the way on the roads!
Did you look at the map? Can you imagine the logistics of trying to get 600,000 people _walking_ from venue to venue on a tight event schedule? It doesn't work that way. We use efficient means of transportation like cars in the modern world. And the athletes aren't staying in a place that's safe to walk. They're all going to need secure transport. All it takes is one whackjob and you have Nice 2015 amplified by 100x.
@@ciarablh6375 and I have lived for 10 years without a car in cities much smaller and harder to navigate while carless. It would be a great improvement I think.
Of course, Paris will be ready in the summer. Yes challenges are huge but …beside Security and a few traffic jams, …infrastructures and organization of events can’t fail. Paris and France know how to plan.
We were in Paris in August, 2023, and we didn't see anything resembling construction around the area of the Seine, Notre Dame, Alexander Bridge, I was surprised that the Olympics were going to be there 11 months later. We had a picnic along the Seine right by the Alexander Bridge and it was a sesspool, so I hope they can pull it off!! BTW, we had a wonderful time in the City of Lights, cant wait to go back!!
I absolutely love how they're incorporating the city into their Olympic infrastructure and not just building soulless eccentric buildings that will be redundant after the Olympics finish
11:48 if you're suggesting adding more car lanes? It'll add to congestion rather than fixing it. It'll cause bottlenecks and therefore more chaos, therefore more delay. Building better infra for human speeds such as biking and walking makes perfect sense.
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Paris is such an attractive, historic city that one would assume a major sports event held in it would be a 10 out of 10. But today's Olympic games have a knack for being both better & worse than the host city. That has been the case with plenty of locations, even going back decades, such as Montreal or Athens. Or Beijing, Rio, Tokyo, much less cities holding the winter Olympics. London 2012 turned out good, but the money spent on its games may still have outranked its rating.
2.1 millions inhabitants is the population of the inner city limits (Paris Intramuros "inside the wall"), which is not a relevant number since the Olympics games wont be restricted to the city center but also extend to greater Paris, like you said, for example on the île de Saint Denis, Saint Denis, Versailles etc. So you need to add these 15 million visitors to the 12 million residents of the Paris metropolitan area. Knowing that Paris is one of the densest cities in the world, this could result in an enormous challenge and the security measures might make it even harder to roam freely in the city. That's why many Parisians (the more privileged ones) will leave the city as soon as the game starts, enjoying also the possibility to rent their apartment at an indecent price. While the middle class and labor class of the metropolis are facing the biggest housing crisis in the modern era due to speculation ...
They have to. Certain sports need to be by the sea or ocean. Cant do those in Paris. Plus they will obviously make use of the football stadiums around the country.
Not anymore… so many illegal immigrants homeless in the cities… so better stay at home … riots and chaos is inevitable … so many Islam Muslim everywhere
@@JJ_RYAN27 tell me you've never been to L.a. without saying you've never been to L.A. or California after 2010 (or earlier, but the dystopia is real now).
@@wilddata This is the equivalent of having the games in New York City and having one game in American Samoa, or having the games in London and one game on Pitcairn Island or in Amsterdam and one game in Aruba. How would it have been done if the Olympics were in any other city? How would this have been handled in Sydney, Atlanta, Athens, London, Beijing, Seoul, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, St Louis, Stockholm etc?
@@Kev4KevI get your point but the surf event is something very new, Los Angeles will probably have it in Huntington beach, but London, Moscow and plenty of other Summer olympics cities would never be able to organize the surf event locally
After a long gap after pandamic we as well as all participants of the World & others are proud to expect all the arrangement including peventive protection of the Health & Medical facility of the participants &all others should be perfect in this gathering with the great support of World Health Organisation as per the requirment this Paris Olympic 2024..Thanks with Best of luck President & all others organised bodies with great expect...
My wife and I have been here in Paris from June 29 and head back to the States on July 18. We've seen a lot of the construction going on around Paris, lots of traffic, so many people, and blockcades of many areas. It's pretty cool to see, though. We've also seen the Flame parade, which I've never seen before. I can't imagine how busy itll be once the Olympics starts. Its gonna be mass chaos 😮
@@lacmc9 Wrong, and I'm a perfect example of this. I'm French, I live in Paris and I'm pretty confident. Many Frenchies tend to be self loathing, self-pitying spoiled brats that take pleasure in self deprecating and whining. They even sometimes think that they live in a terrible place and that their life is much more difficult than in neighboring countries, even though half the world dreams of being in their shoes. It's exhausting... As usual, they complain and are convinced that the worst will happen, even though they have exactly zero evidence of that. Paris is one of, if not the most visited city on Earth, the core's population triples during the day on a normal working day. Plus, every summer there's a massive drop in population and the transit system runs in "light mode", especially in August. Frequencies and services are reduced and the network feels deserted. So, during the Olympics, many locals will be elsewhere on holiday as usual and the Olympic visitors will mostly replace them. The transit agency will run the network in super peak mode all day long, which offers a capacity well in excess of 10 million rides per day. 10+ millions !!! Another great point is that Olympic visitors don't have the same needs, they don't overflow the system twice a day during the morning and evening rush hours. It's spread much more evenly over the day, with peaks on certain events which the network is used to handle. Let's also not forget that there will be yet another line to serve one of the major arenas, the one in La Défense, with the opening of the first section of RER E's Western extension, plus gigantic new trains on this line. Several lines can each transport more than a million people every day. On the RER, line A carries 1.5 million riders on a weekday where there are 2 rush hours. If the peak is extended all day long the capacity is further increased. Line 14 of the metro can be operated all day long with a 80 or 85 second frequency on each side. And it has new 8-car trains. The other automated lines M1 & M4 can also be operated at peak frequency all day long. And for the other, non fully automated lines, drivers are scheduled with full teams and overtime during the games. Finally, as I said in a lengthy comment under this video : there's a mistake in the video, the Grand Paris Express gigantic metro expansion was never planned for the Olympics. The GPE was planned well before Paris even got selected for the games. The Paris Olympics committee then decided to use 2 of the first parts to be delivered and include them in the plans. The 2 parts being M14's extensions and the first section of M16/M17. Then, more than 3 years ago they saw it was going to be a bit short for M16/M17 and they decided *against* rushing construction. Instead they relocated events to other venues and planned something different. Nothing is behind schedule transportation wise : M14's extensions are set to open this spring, as expected. M16/M17's construction have been reorganized to deliver a much larger section in 2026, instead of 2 or 3 smaller ones in 2024 and 2027. So there's no surprise, everything that is needed in Paris Olympics committee's plan will be there.
Video 18:00 hrs. Great info on Paris and how the events are using current famous sites. Very interesting background to know. Loved the video. I'm in Ontario, Canada!
I think the Olympics are so cool. It must be so amazing for the athletes to get to meet so many people from around the world and share this experience with them. I don’t know why, but I also just love the idea of the Olympic village. I wish I could stay there just for fun. If only my parents had put me in a sport when I was a young child, then I could attempt to make an Olympic team of some sort lol
another great video. Thank you. comment on the olympics however. I am a fan of idea of the olympics and follow winter more than summer so it will be fun to see breakdancing and how tahiti will be used for surfing. The budging for the games always balloons and not a single games has been ever close to estimate budgets. and the after games purposing almost never stays as what is planned so it will be interesting to see what happens ever. It also will be interesting to see how the dissidence of france's residences about the games will be.
Taking advantage of the existing infrastructure as well as popping up temporary ones to accommodate a temporary event is financially & environmentally responsible move. Bravo Paris!
wow! You worked hard on this..very interesting and informative. I was always wondering how cities and countries got voted and prepared for the Olympics
I remember when breakdancing was something teens in church or on a street corner might do just for fun. If someone told my younger self that breakdancing would be part of the Olympics in the distant future, I would've laughed my face off :)
I’m hoping the atmosphere and play out is at least close to that of London 2012. Seems recently London has started be be regarded as the best games of all time over Sydney. I can fully see why, everything in the games was absolutely perfection
Thank you! 😌 We forgot to link the card - will do that right now. We also linked the video in the description, it's called: Top 10 Megaprojects in Europe
I’ve never had the pleasure of going to Paris. However, every friend that I’ve had that has visited that city has come back with tales of garbage everywhere in the city being dirty. A lot of them have pictures of how dirty the city is so it sounds like one of their challenges is just to clean it.
I was in Paris just last week for the half marathon which had around 47 000 participants and honestly I felt the public transport already struggled a bit so I am really interested to see how they will manage during the Olympics. But I appreciate the effort to think about the longevity of the arenas.
The difference might be that most parisians will leave the city. August if the time of the year most people go on vacation, so you don't have as many locals commuting to go to work. And as a guy who lives in Normandy, I know where many parisians will go. I guess this event will affect us too.
I know most public stereotyping the Olympics as a megaevent to showcase sports , drama and competitiom but it is also a mega project to branding a city
I feel that the surfing Olympics in Tahiti was brushed over too lightly. If France's mission is to truly be "carbon neutral" wouldn't they not build a new tower cemented into the reef via concrete foundations? Constructing such tower would cause unnecessary damage to the reef and marine ecosystem there. Not to mention there already is a wooden judging tower at Teahupo'o that has been used for judging for the past 15 years. It is stated that the reason France wants to build this tower is so that the judges can have AC. This doesn't sound too carbon neutral to me... I understand building new infrastructure with the idea that it would bring a new look and well being to a community but building such tower is not building any sort of reasonable infrastructure to be used indefinitely. The judging booth is a temporary, 4 day, use structure that will have no real boost to the community and come at the cost of the reef.
I am glad that the city is actually being cleaned. I hope the Athlete's village will be/can be used by normal people living in France in the future for housing, not an extravagant accommodation. Also, I really hope that the river and all streets of Paris will be clean before, during, and after the Olympics.
Paris 2024 is a special Olympiad due to the riots the City of Lights have per annum that make times dark with police who arrest people. Human security is a must during the days of the international, athletic event. What else specializes the Olympiad? The opening ceremonies are being held on the Seine unlike the previous Olympiads.
Like the idea of the opening and closing ceremonies. Concerned with the security more than anything, especially after the 2022 champions league final where fans were getting mugged. The police lost control of the situation then try and cover it up.
This is how Olympic Games should be held going forward, seeing the issues we're having with sustainability and massive facilities being demolished or abandoned after sporting events. I love how they incorporate the city's unique character into the games.
having a view of the historic sites while the games are going on is also much cooler. I think that every city should do this from now on. Like New York should find a way to show the empire state building, Hamburg should find a way to incorporate the outside of the Elbphilharmonie, Tokyo showing Mt Fuji. i guess the risk of outdoor events is the weather, either the sun is too hot or there might be rain. I would think that it's a problem if our top athletes aren't working in their optimal temperature, and instead are overheated. Then that really just messes up the conditions of the event i think
Paris streets can NOT handle the influence of traffic I was there in 2019 and the traffic was bad I can only imagine what it will be like for the Olympics
This gives me goosebumps, I love paris and but has been so underwhelming for so many years...and recently i was there, just a month ago, everything is cleaned up and glowed up. It's like having a homeless person undergone an extreme makeover with nice clothings and hair and a good spa :)
