Today, we wonder about the real bill of the Olympics with Béatrice Mathieu, senior reporter at L’Express and Jean-Loup Chappelet, honorary professor of public management at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Public Administration (IDHEAP) in Lausanne .
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The team: Charlotte Baris (presentation), Mathias Penguilly (writing), Théo Sire (editing) and Jules Krot (directing).
Credits: BFM TV, L’Effet Papillon, France 24, TV5 Monde, RMC, RTL, Public Senate, France Inter, AFP
Music and dressing: Emmanuel Herschon/Studio Torrent
Image credits: Thomas SAMSON/AFP
Logo: Anne-Laure Chapelain/Benjamin Chazal
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Charlotte Baris: For months, we have only talked about the Paris Olympics in negative terms. It seems like everything is done to spoil the party. And if finally, these Olympic and Paralympic Games happened… GOOD ? History is full of flawless games – despite a few false starts and colossal challenges. So throughout the week, we wonder how to succeed in our Olympics.
For the host countries of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the competition is always an opportunity to show what they are capable of. To flatter his honor in the eyes of the whole world, no expense seems superfluous. Especially in autocratic countries! While preparing this episode, I found the cost of previous editions of the Olympics and the figures are absolutely dizzying.
London 2012: $10.5 billion. Athens 2004: 15 billion. Beijing 2008: 44 billion. And the absolute record: the Winter Games in Sochi in 2014… 51 billion dollars. Vladimir Putin’s Russia has stopped at nothing.
The atmosphere is very different for Paris 2024. Ten years after the debauchery of the Winter Games in Russia, the trend is rather towards cost control and sobriety, both on an ecological level, as we told you in the yesterday’s episode, only on the economic level. Initial objective: Games costing less than 6.3 billion euros. A completely laudable goal, but absolutely unattainable.
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