Summer Olympic Games Paris 2024 Venues

[intoronto 6,566]

22 minutes ago, phelps said:

look, I'm used to the same narrative every week here in Milan (and every Summer in general in Italy)

 

in Milan they say there's always too much pollution, but guess what? it's only about stopping the private circulation on weekends, never Monday through Friday, when people must go to work 

 

if the air is heavily polluted, it's 365 days/year, not 260

 

in many places close to the big cities, they say people can't bath because of E.Coli and other bacteria through the cold months, but suddenly, each and every Summer, when you're at risk of losing many tourists, the sea water becomes crystal clear and clean...

 

so, if they say that the river Seine is not healthy (and for what I know, it's years that bathing is prohibited there, not just from yesterday and the recent shitty weather days), I just can't trust politicians that from one day to another change that evaluation only because the Olympics are at the door (or because of a couple of sunny days), 'cause the quality of a big river (not to mention the sea) can't change that much that quickly

 

that's biology

 

then, there's politics and politicians...and unfortunately they take the final decisions

 

p.s. always ready to ask for pardon if I'm (really) wrong 

Yup and Multi sport event host will only see negatives in the media (that's what gets the clicks after all)

[De_Gambassi 1,267]

2 hours ago, phelps said:

 

so, if they say that the river Seine is not healthy (and for what I know, it's years that bathing is prohibited there, not just from yesterday and the recent shitty weather days), I just can't trust politicians that from one day to another change that evaluation only because the Olympics are at the door (or because of a couple of sunny days), 'cause the quality of a big river (not to mention the sea) can't change that much that quickly

 

 

It's not like they will turn the water quality by prayers and magic. The current project has been set up in 2015 (it goes beyond Paris 2024), billions have been spent. They built stuff like this. Is it going to work ? I don't know. Might they cheat their way ? Possibly. 

Only thing I know is that they claimed that the system will not be compatible with shit weather. And the weather in June was apocalyptic shit.

[phelps 8,338]

4 minutes ago, De_Gambassi said:

 

It's not like they will turn the water quality by prayers and magic. The current project has been set up in 2015 (it goes beyond Paris 2024), billions have been spent. They built stuff like this. Is it going to work ? I don't know. Might they cheat their way ? Possibly. 

Only thing I know is that they claimed that the system will not be compatible with shit weather. And the weather in June was apocalyptic shit.

I hope it all works well and all the atheltes will have no consequences for swimming in the Seine

 

if they survived Rio 2016, we can even be optimist for Paris

 

still, I don't think that any system can turn things around in a few days just with the help of a bit of sun

[Faramir 447]

At worst we can study the mortality rate in a few years and see how big of an impact swimming in shit has.

[rafalgorka 1,808]

Photos from fencing arena at Grand Palais look spectaculiar. Best venue imo

[intoronto 6,566]

Beach volleyball venue looking nice

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9SCB2DCNrt/

[intoronto 6,566]

Archery:

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/C9S-OVtuSJm/

[Olympian1010 8,253]

The Grand Palais getting ready for fencing and taekwondo: https://www.instagram.com/paris2024/p/C9fOGH2tEfB/?img_index=1

[hckošice 15,605]

3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

The Grand Palais getting ready for fencing and taekwondo: https://www.instagram.com/paris2024/p/C9fOGH2tEfB/?img_index=1

this looks so unusual like some aviary of pterodactyls from jurassic park

[De_Gambassi 1,267]

Stade de France in all its new purple glory ready to host the seven tournament