Politicians and sports stars reassure the public ‘it’s going to be beautiful’, but those planning to flee the city are unconvinced
hen government posters recently appeared in Métro stations advising Parisians to work from home during the summer’sto avoid overcrowded public transport, Julie, 24, a support worker for refugees, was puzzled.
As Paris prepares for the Olympics and Paralympics, politicians, sports stars and the president, Emmanuel Macron, are trying to shore up public support for what is being billed as a “revolutionary” and radically different type of games – with half the usual carbon footprint and very little building, to avoid wasteful infrastructure investment.
Whether the Seine will be clean enough to swim in for the triathlon and open-water swimming events is another key question. Swimming has been banned in the Seine over the past century because of dangerous pollution levels. But a frantic clean-up operation has seen work on water management and filtering stations in the hope of opening up the river for the Olympics and beyond. Macron has promised to swim in it himself.
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