Paris 2024 Olympic Games: A sneak preview of picture postcard City of Light before the event

The countdown to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games which will run from from July 26th to August 11th and the Paralympics from August 28th to September 8th. Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

It was cooler come Monday morning anyway, possibly quieter, and better timed, the chance to run right past, or in some cases right through, some of the iconic and historical landmarks that will feature as venues for theSetting out from the hotel, the Gard de Lyon was just around the corner, quickly followed by the adjacent Bercy Arena, the venue for the gymnastics and basketball finals.

It says something about the beautiful proximity of these Paris venues that you can run past so many of them within a 10km route. And in doing so get a sort of sneak preview of the opening ceremony, which if you haven’t heard by now follows this similar route on Friday, July 26th, only on the river Seine itself, a large flotilla of boats, parading the 10,000 athletes from 208 participating nations, finishing at Trocadéro.

“If we think there are risks, depending on our analysis of the context, we have fallback scenarios,” Macron said. “There are plans B and C and we are preparing them in parallel.” Paris is reportedly spending more than €1 billion to properly clean up the Seine for the first time in 100 years, when they last hosted the Olympics, but that still mightn’t save the 1.5km triathlon swim.

Then there’s that ultimate movable feast; the final cost. As with any Olympics, for now, that remains uncertain, with differing views on whether it will exceed initial estimates. The current costs are running at around €9 billion, but are expected to exceed €10 billion, still somewhat cheaper than Tokyo 2020 Rio 2016 , London 2012 , and certainly far cheaper than Beijing 2008 .

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