The great pending works of Paris nine months before the opening of the Games

284 days before the opening of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the water quality of the Seine is guaranteedanticipating the effects of possible “severe weather conditions”, completing staff training and adopting health and safety policies are the main pending tasks of the organizing committee.

This is what the Paris team, led by president Tony Estanguet, said before the 141st Session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) meeting in Bombay (India).

Cleaning the Seinewhere open water swimming and triathlon will be held, sparked the interest of Alberto de Monaco, who wanted to know how quality was measured. In August, a triathlon event in the river had to be canceled due to bacterial contamination.

Estanguet explained that four years ago “a big rehabilitation program” was launched. and specified that the water is analyzed in two ways: “one sample is sent to a laboratory and another is analyzed in real time.”

“Within three years, the improvement is huge. We will have a river where we can swim thanks to the Games. The plan is not finished yet, we have to continue the water treatment to protect the athletes and make sure that the pollution does not affect to them,” said the head of the organization.

Regarding the temperature, The Paris region experienced several heat wave alerts last summer.

The Games organizing committee will study “sport by sport and venue by venue” how to address this problem if it recurs during the two weeks of competition.

AN OLYMPIC CONSULATE WILL DISTRIBUTE VISAS

The organizing committee announced the creation of an Olympic Consulate to facilitate the sending of visas to those who need them to enter France and, therefore, the Schengen area.

These people will only need to mark a cross on their accreditation application and the Consulate will automatically receive your data to manage the visa.

Organizers reckon the process will be “very easy” and the most comfortable for those recognized.

Belgian Pierre-Olivier Beckers, president of the IOC Coordination Commission for these Games, declared himself “enthusiastic, but not complacent” with the state of organizational work.

WHAT IS THE PET’S NAME?

The anecdote of the day featured American IOC member Anita DeFrantz, who asked: “Can you remind me of the pet’s name?“.

EstanguEt, seated at a table presided over by a ‘Phryge’ dolllamented that the mascot’s name “is not easy to pronounce in English” and again explained its origin, which came from the Phrygian caps, a symbol of freedom in France.

The report presented in Bombay was the penultimate by the organizers at the IOC Session. The next Olympic assembly will be held in Paris, in the days before the opening of the Games.