With big goals and gambles, Paris aims to reset the Olympics with audacious Games and a wow opening

Headline: The Independent

Instead of building new stadiums, Paris is embedding Olympic events in the French capital and hoping to highlight its history and green transformation.
The Washington Post
It will wind its way from the Austerlitz bridge beside the Jardin des Plantes, make its way around the two islands at the centre of the city (the Île Saint Louis and the Île de la Cité) and finally at the Léna bridge the flotilla will come to a stop.
Irish Times
With the COVID-19 pandemic a distant memory, it is rather fitting that Ouvrons grand les Jeux, or “Games wide open,” is the slogan for the 2024 Olympics.
CNA
The temptation is always there to fret over the scale, the purity, the basic vitality of this four-yearly global anachronism.
Guardian

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