Our Olympics editor almost breaks bread with le président, gets pulled over by police and revels in a Dupont dreamland
Our Olympics editor almost breaks bread with le président, gets pulled over by police and revels in a Dupont dreamland
4am alarm. Games o’clock. All aboard the Eurostar for my fourth crack as Olympics editor. I sit next to a lovely family surprising their son with a trip to Disneyland Paris. But where are the best thrills and spills? Thunder Mountain or the gut-churning Olympic rollercoaster? We’ll see. Later, I am at the Élysée Palace for a speech by Monsieur Macron to the arriving global media. There is a buffet. Readers will not be shocked to hear it is a gastronomic delight. I accidentally-on-purpose drop a bit of ham that is snaffled by the Macrons’ elderly dog, Nemo, famous in these parts for onceEmmanuel and Brigitte do a walkabout. I try to get close for pearls of wisdom but bodyguards fend me off.
I am first in line to validate my accreditation at 7am – a gold medal moment – and return to the hotel to find chief news man Sean Ingle having breakfast. “I know this might not be good timing,” he says, “but we’re only 18 months from the Winter Olympics and we need to start planning.”Horse whipping, spy plots, pitch invasion chaos. News everywhere to triage, distil, analyse. Just a normal day at the Olympics – and it hasn’t officially started yet.
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