The success of the Paris 2024 Olympics has sparked debate about the frequency of the Games. Could staging them every two years be a viable option?
Keely Hodgkinson wins gold in the women’s 800m final at the Paris Olympics , one of many highlights of this year’s Games. The average sports fan is increasingly a big-eventer and there is a risk of the Games losing out in the attention economy. We are knee-deep in Twixmas: that twilight zone between Christmas and new year, excess and reflection, lists and yet more lists. Over the past week there have been many saluting the Paris Olympics .
Yet across the globe there is one constant: these lists are dominated by a Paris Olympics seared into the memory. Nothing else came close. Pick your day, relive the moment. Keely Hodgkinson, Alex Yee, Simone Biles, Léon Marchand, Mondo Duplantis, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and a men’s 1500m final for the ages; I was fortunate to see them all up close. But even that list still barely scratches the surface. As Christophe Dubi, the executive director of the Olympics, put it to me recently, Paris 2024 was like the Dude in the Big Lebowski: In fact it was so good, it even provided the most thrilling moments of the year in tennis and basketball – two sports where the Olympics are usually an afterthought not the pinnacle. Novak Djokovic’swas one of the great men’s matches, while Steph Curry’s “golden dagger” provided one of the great moments, and memes, in the dying embers of The TV figures were also strong, with the BBC’s live coverage winning the ratings battle every day. So during this period of excess and reflection, a provocative question comes to mind. Would it be that wrong to stage the summer Games, this wondrous celebration of sport, more frequently? Perhaps, even, every two years? In the past you could have brusquely dismissed the idea with two words: too expensive. But Paris – while not exactly cheap – showed how to stage a Games without a city becoming a building site or being crippled with debt
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