As the Paris Olympics Promise New Ambition Old Anxieties Intensify 2024 Olympics - Coronavirus HEAD TOPICS
As the Paris Olympics Promise New Ambition Old Anxieties Intensify
10/22/2022 4:32:00 AM Trying not to gloat organizers of the 2024 Summer Games begin showing off the spectacle of the city while concerns about security and strikes mount
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After dismal moods and empty arenas at the Tokyo Summer Games, postponed to 2021, and the Beijing Winter Games, held in February in a closed coronavirus bubble, the 2024 Paris Games are pledging to deliver the comeback of comebacks. Trying not to gloat organizers of the 2024 Summer Games begin showing off the spectacle of the city while concerns about security and strikes mount PARIS — The message has been hardly subtle: The grandeur of the Games is coming back.Organizers of the 2024 Paris Summer Games this week loaded journalists from around the world on buses for a first peek at the progress of Olympics sites, part of the long run-up to the Games, still 20 months away. One of the first stops: the Eiffel Tower, on a dazzlingly sunny autumn day, to see the spot near the foot of the monument where the temporary beach volleyball venue will be built. From there, the whirlwind tour continued, from a new aquatics center that will not host swimming to the famed clay courts of Roland Garros, which will host not only tennis but boxing, too. All along the circuitous route, organizers doled out regular cultural and historical asides on the collections at the Louvre, the reconstruction of Notre Dame and the renovation of the Grand Palais as they repeatedly crisscrossed the Seine. It is there where organizers plan one of the most ambitious gambits of any Games: an opening ceremony not confined to a stadium, but instead sailing along on boats and barges before hundreds of thousands of spectators on the river’s banks. Read more:
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The 2024 GMC Sierra EV borrows some key features from its Chevy sibling, as well GMC’s first electric truck — the Hummer EV. Organizers of the 2024 Paris Summer Games this week loaded journalists from around the world on buses for a first peek at the progress of Olympics sites, part of the long run-up to the Games, still 20 months away. One of the first stops: the Eiffel Tower, on a dazzlingly sunny autumn day, to see the spot near the foot of the monument where the temporary beach volleyball venue will be built. You can reserve a Sierra EV now, but deliveries aren’t scheduled to start until early calendar-year 2024. From there, the whirlwind tour continued, from a new aquatics center that will not host swimming to the famed clay courts of Roland Garros, which will host not only tennis but boxing, too. Some names were announced for the first time in the release while others had already appeared on the RJC’s website. All along the circuitous route, organizers doled out regular cultural and historical asides on the collections at the Louvre, the reconstruction of Notre Dame and the renovation of the Grand Palais as they repeatedly crisscrossed the Seine. Design The Sierra EV updates the design language of the internal-combustion GMC Sierra for the electric age. It is there where organizers plan one of the most ambitious gambits of any Games: an opening ceremony not confined to a stadium, but instead sailing along on boats and barges before hundreds of thousands of spectators on the river’s banks. The broader message was clear at every stop: After dismal moods and empty arenas at the Tokyo Summer Games, postponed to 2021, and the Beijing Winter Games, held in February in a closed coronavirus bubble, the Paris Games are pledging to deliver the comeback of comebacks. The grille shape is now outlined in lights, with an illuminated GMC logo. Over several days of briefings and meetings, mostly without masks, the pandemic hardly came up. Instead, the pride of being able to showcase a much-loved city seemed nearly palpable. So unlike most other trucks — including the rival Ford F-150 Lightning — the Sierra EV doesn’t have a separate frame. Chris Christie of New Jersey. “We feel fortunate to be able to have the opportunity and, cross fingers, to have full stadiums because that is what it is all about for the athletes,” Étienne Thobois, the chief executive of the Paris 2024 organizing committee, said in an interview. “Fantastic scenery and fantastic infrastructure — and that’s what Tokyo was able to provide. The Sierra EV also borrows the Midgate setup from the Silverado EV. But here hopefully we’ll have the opportunity to welcome the world.” Yet it’s also clear the organizers will be wrestling with anxiety. Combined with the fold-out MultiPro tailgate from the internal-combustion Sierra, it can expand the default 5. As pandemic concerns recede, at least at the moment, the more typical but no less daunting ones around the Games — security, traffic, disruptions of all kinds — are intensifying. David Kustoff of Tennessee, who along with Rep. Take the plan for the opening ceremony on the Seine, the showcase that could give these Games their indelible image — and the International Olympic Committee its biggest headache. A frunk (GMC calls it the “eTrunk”) provides covered storage space as well. Breaking with longstanding tradition of holding the opening ceremony in the primary stadium of the Games, Paris plans to put the 10,500 athletes, or at least the thousands who choose to participate in the ceremony, on a flotilla of 160 boats down the Seine. The nautical parade of nations is meant to symbolize openness and celebrate the famed vistas of this city, and President Emmanuel Macron of France has endorsed it. But the design itself, with a freestanding portrait touchscreen and rectangular instrument cluster, looks suspiciously similar to the Ford Mustang Mach-E cabin. Pulling it off, however, is another matter. Thomas Collomb, a top security official for the organizing committee, said in a telephone interview that the organizers had been working “hand in hand” with the French and Paris governments, the police and other authorities, to develop a plan for the ceremony and security at the Games in general. We hope GMC’s lawyers are ready. The RJC’s annual leadership meeting draws top Republican leaders, officials, donors and activists from across the country. “We are preparing for all scenarios,” he said. “We need to be humble and innovative to meet all challenges.8-inch touchscreen, 11.” Collomb said, for instance, that the organizers were recruiting thousands of security guards to supplement the police. The former will be in charge of securing Games venues, with the latter deployed in public spaces.0-inch head-up display. Still, doubts over the level of preparedness were raised after . Trump did not attend last year’s conference, but the former president delivered a video address.