WEBVTT - Is Paris ready to host the Olympics? 0:00:00.520 --> 0:00:03.800 Already, and this is the Daily Oh, this is the 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:06.880 Daily ohs oh, now it makes sense. 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:17.400 Good morning, and welcome to the Daily Os. It's Wednesday, 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:20.680 the twenty fourth of July. I'm Zara, I'm emma, just 0:00:20.800 --> 0:00:24.959 days out from the Olympics opening ceremony, thousands of athletes 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.720 and descending on Paris for two weeks of competition. 0:00:28.120 --> 0:00:30.800 Paris had the better part of a decade to prepare 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.040 for this moment after it won a bid to host 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:38.159 the twenty twenty four Olympics and Paralympics, but recent political instability, 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:43.280 rising crime rates and temperatures, concerns of over tourism, bed bugs, 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:46.760 and even e coli in this seen has left people 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:52.159 asking is Paris ready. We'll explore that question in today's 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.680 deep Dive, but first, Zara. What's making headlines? 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:01.880 US Vice President Kamala Harris has secured enough support within 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.840 her party to be named the Democrats presidential nominee. It 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.920 means that Harris is almost certain to be confirmed as 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:13.759 her party's candidate at next month Democratic National Convention in Chicago. 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.800 Comes after President Joe Biden announced he was withdrawing from 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.240 the race against Donald Trump for reelection. In a statement 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:23.320 Harris said she fully intends to unite her party nation 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:24.959 and defeat Donald Trump. 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:32.160 In November, animal welfare authorities have shut down Tasmania's biggest 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:35.120 puppy farm. More than two hundred and fifty dogs and 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:39.240 puppies were surrendered to the RSPCA after a labradoodle breeding 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.759 facility was accused of overbreeding its dogs for nearly two 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:46.280 years between twenty twenty one and twenty twenty three. The 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:49.000 breeders faced fines of up to two hundred and seventy 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:52.640 three thousand dollars for the breach, but agreed to shut 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:56.880 down operations and hand over hundreds of labradoodles instead. The 0:01:57.040 --> 0:02:00.000 RSPCA is now seeking to rehome the puppies, and Dad 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.600 has launched an appeal. It's also appealing to the Tasmanian 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:08.200 government to overhaul legislation to prevent puppy farms from overbreeding. 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.480 The chief executive of CrowdStrike, which is the cybersecurity firm 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:18.240 responsible for last week's global IT outage, has been called 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:22.440 to testify in front of US lawmakers in Washington. CrowdStrike 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.840 says a failed software update led to widespread outages in 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.960 what's been called one of the world's biggest IT disasters. 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:32.320 US House leaders want the CrowdStrike boss to face questions 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:36.000 about how this incident happened and the mitigation steps CrowdStrike 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:36.640 is taking. 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.080 And today's good news. A ninety eight year old physicist 0:02:43.200 --> 0:02:47.360 has received an honorary doctorate seventy five years after making 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:51.720 a breakthrough discovery in particle physics. Rosemary Fowler was a 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:55.520 researcher at the University of Bristol. Her nineteen forty eight 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:59.600 research contributed to her supervisor, Cecil Powell, winning a Nobel 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:04.040 Prize for physics in nineteen fifty. Fowler left UNI before 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:07.240 finishing her PhD so she could support her young family 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.960 during post World War two food rationing. Now she's been 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:15.519 honored in a private graduation ceremony. Bristol University's chancellor said, 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:20.640 Fowler's intellectual rigor and curiosity paved the way for critical discoveries. 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.120 And it feels like we have been waiting a very 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:30.640 long time for this Olympic and Paralympic Games to actually begin. 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.240 I know it's only been three years, but it's like 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.960 the only time I ever focus on sports, or it 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:40.920 feels like a lifetime. But this week the Paris Olympics finally. 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.440 Begin, yeap, And I think that's a sentiment a lot 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:44.840 of people can relate to, who might not love sport 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:48.080 but love the Olympics. So there were plenty of headlines 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.200 in the lead up to the twenty twenty Olympics in Tokyo, 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.200 which were famously delayed until twenty twenty one thanks to 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:58.080 the pandemic. But the Paris Olympics have had their fair 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.280 share of headlines too, in the lead up to this 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:01.720 week's opening ceremony. 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:04.720 And so I think that you know, for a viewer 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:07.560 or certainly someone that's not competing, so you turn on 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.840 the TV, you get excited, you watch it, and then 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.520 it ends. Obviously, in real life it has a lot 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:15.560 more of a tale than that. It's a very long 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.360 process to get to the Olympics, and at least for 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:21.440 the host nation to get to the Olympics. Where did 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:23.400 this Olympic journey start? For Paris? 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.560 Well, like any country who wants to host the Olympics 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:30.400 and the Paralympics, the conversation begins many many many years 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:35.279 before the games themselves. France formally put forward itself as 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:39.000 a candidate to host twenty twenty four in twenty sixteen, 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:42.400 so presumably conversations were had in the years leading up 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:44.440 to that point. They put a formal bid in and 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:48.520 France won that bid in September twenty seventeen, at the 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.880 same time that La was named as host for the 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:52.240 twenty twenty eight Games. 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:55.840 And presumably the logic behind giving such a long kind 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:58.000 of lead in period is because of how long it 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:00.000 takes to prepare for an Olympic Games. 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:04.000 Exactly, and there is a lot to prepare for from 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:08.520 a financial and infrastructure standpoint alone. There is so much 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:12.000 to do. Cities have to transform themselves to accommodate all 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:16.160 the events in appropriate stadiums and sporting facilities. Plus we've 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:20.000 got the Olympic Village where athletes are housed during the Games. 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:24.240 Plus transport infrastructure has to be managed to deal with 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:28.159 the influx of spectators. We've got safety and security expenses. 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.920 Whether or not a city actually has these requirements already, 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:36.080 or has the capacity to build these requirements or to 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:41.120 meet these requirements is a major consideration for the committee. 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:42.279 Who decides who gets to host. 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:45.479 So the International Olympic Committee, before they say yeah, Paris, 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.720 You've got the Games, they look at the kind of 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.880 structure set up within a city already and its capacity 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:52.520 to meet the demands of hosting. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:55.479 It all sounds very expensive, you know, when you're talking 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.800 about having to build this infrastructure from scratch in some scenarios, 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.480 and it really reminds me of when we were talking 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.599 about Victoria pulling out of the twenty twenty six Commonwealth 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.040 Games that was of course announced by former Premier Daniel 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:09.880 Andrews around this time last year. 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:13.280 Six to seven billion dollars is well and truly too 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.800 much for a twelve day sporting event. I will not 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.800 take money out of hospitals and schools in order to 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.000 fund an event that is three times the cost as 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.440 estimated and budgeted for last year. 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:29.560 The Commonwealth Games is a smaller version of the Olympic Game, 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.080 So what do we know about how much hosting the 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:34.080 Olympics and the Paralympics costs? 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:38.200 As you mentioned with that Commgames example, the financial burden 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:41.479 of hosting these sorts of global sporting events is really 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.960 being discussed more and more, and of course the Commgames 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:48.040 are a smaller event, but that decision by Dan Andrews 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:51.120 and Victoria to pull out of hosting actually inspired a 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:55.599 study into this exact matter interesting. Oxford University published these 0:06:55.640 --> 0:07:00.680 findings in May and they said the Tokyo Olympics, the Olympics, 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:05.440 not even the Paralympics, cost around twenty billion Australian dollars. 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:07.640 Just to drop in the ocean, just to drop in. 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:11.440 The ocean, and researchers really wanted to investigate this financial 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:14.920 spend and the financial risk of these mega sporting events. 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.560 It noted that the last three Summer Games overran budgets 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:22.120 by one hundred and eighty five percent. Now that's not 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:27.200 even including road, rail, airport, hotel and other infrastructure, and 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:30.640 those factors can often cost more than the games themselves, 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:34.360 these researchers found. And this is not a new problem. 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:38.520 When we look back over the decades. Montreal, a Canadian city, 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:42.400 hosted its Summer Games in nineteen seventy six and took 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:46.320 thirty years to pay off their stadium. Some of our 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.360 listeners might remember headlines from the Rio Olympic. 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.040 Games say that's the one that I remember. 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.600 Yeah, that was the first time that it really stood 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.840 out to me kind of the scale of the burden 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.360 on these cities to get ready. And yeah, you might 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.840 remember vision of stadiums that were high builds or not 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:03.920 yet ready or didn't have proper electricity you're plumbing, you know, 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.080 weeks out from the games. So there is a lot 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:07.240 of pressure on these cities. 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.080 There's a lot of pressure. But presumably the upside is, 0:08:10.120 --> 0:08:12.480 of course, all of the tourism that comes to that 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:16.120 city for the three weeks of the Olympics and then 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:20.120 the Paralympics. But balancing that and understanding at the end 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.760 whether it is a net positive or a net negative 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.960 is obviously something that needs to be weighed up. I 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.800 want to go back to Paris specifically though, because I 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.120 think this is a really unusual game in that it's 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.800 happening against a fair bit of political uncertainty. You and 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:37.080 I have spoken about this on the pub before, but 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.400 can you just at a very high level tell us 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:41.560 about the context in France right now. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.400 Yeah, So these games come at a time of huge 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:49.920 political uncertainty after a recent election in France, which is 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:54.120 also managing a summer game set during you know, record 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:58.600 high temperatures and controversy in the headlines relating to this 0:08:58.640 --> 0:09:01.800 project to clean up the river. There's a lot going 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:04.240 on in the city of Paris at the moment. So 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:08.079 a quick refresher on that political uncertainty. There was an election. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.280 The left wing coalition that was formed during that election 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.400 won the most votes, but the election resulted in a 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.560 hung parliament, so we had a kind of even split 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.800 between the left, the center and the far right alliances. 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:25.120 It wasn't a presidential election, so Emmanuel Macron's job is safe, 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.560 But this divided result really means that there is no 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:32.000 clear majority winner, and negotiations are still continuing between the 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.560 parties as to what the future government of France is 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:37.960 going to look like. Most recently we saw a deal 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.360 between Macron's party and a right wing opposition party, but 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.160 who ends up controlling the government is still a far 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:45.559 away from being determined. 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.520 And I remember when we spoke about the election results, 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.680 we spoke about the fact that the French PM, Gabriella Tall, 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.360 had handed or offered his resignation, but there was a 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:58.360 chance he would stay on because of the Olympics. What's 0:09:58.400 --> 0:09:59.120 happened there. 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:02.440 Yep, So he did resign as PM in the wake 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.760 of the elections. He's part of Macron's Ensemble party, but 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.120 Attil suggested that he could remain in office throughout the 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:13.040 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games to maintain government, and we 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.720 ended up seeing President Macron ask him to do just that. 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.679 So Atle has stuck around. He's going to handle day 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:23.199 to day business until the new government is named, according 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.200 to French officials, and there will be voters who interpret 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.079 this as, you know, a show of stability for the 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.280 nation while it's under such an intense spotlight with the 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:33.320 games in Paris. 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:35.520 Okay, So I think that gives us a bit of 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:39.160 insight into the political context in which these games are 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.400 playing out. But you also mentioned a few other very 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:47.560 very specific Paris concerns, like the riversen. This is a 0:10:47.600 --> 0:10:49.840 strange one, and I must say I think I missed 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:51.679 the beginning of this story or I came in late. 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.000 Everyone knew about this, but me, what is happening here? 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.560 Look, in order to answer the question is Paris ready 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.240 to host the Olympics, we have to address another concern, 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.240 which is why have people been threatening to shit in 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:04.559 the seen? 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:07.440 No one can ever ever accuse us of not doing 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:11.120 both highbrow and lowbrow content on this podcast. Yep, very 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:12.160 important question. 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.600 Investigating the important matters here are the daily os so 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.160 one of the biggest challenges that Paris has faced in 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.240 the lead up to the Olympics has been all about 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.640 cleaning up the River Sen. So this is the river 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:24.800 that runs right through the heart of Paris out to 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:26.840 the sea. If you've ever been to Paris, you can't 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:27.480 miss eral. 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.520 It looks it doesn't look great. 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:34.400 The river has been scheduled to stage some open water 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.800 swimming events for the Olympics, so that means people competing 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:41.480 in the water as well as being the site of 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.719 the official opening ceremony. So that takes place Friday night 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.760 local time Saturday morning, very very early for us here 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.439 in Australia. But that's all going to be set along 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.560 the Sin and athletes will be on barges and boats 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.120 going down the river. So the problem with the Sen 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.040 and the lead up to this point is about pollution yea. 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.000 So it's been illegal to swim in this end for 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:06.000 just over a century because of this pollution concern. But 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:08.439 when Paris was announced as the host of the Olympics, 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:11.840 the government committed one point four billion euros or just 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.080 over two point two billion Australian dollars to clean it 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:16.720 up in time for the Games. 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.199 That is no small task. As I said, if you've 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.800 seen it, you understand what we're dealing with here and 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.520 have a bit of a visual queue. The big question, 0:12:24.559 --> 0:12:26.840 of course, is is it ready so. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:32.160 Bacterial tests from as recently as June found traces of E. Coli, 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:37.600 which rattled a lot of people and athletes and commentators 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:41.079 and critics of this big cleanup project. Essentially, the finding 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:44.040 showed the river was still too polluted to host swimming events. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.240 An official in Paris acknowledged that it wasn't up to pa. 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:51.000 They blamed recent heavy rain on impacting the results, maybe 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:54.200 skewing the data. But a group of fed up local 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:58.040 residents planned a protest against the public money that was 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.800 being spent on this cleanup. They said that money could 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.240 have been better spent on easing cost of living pressures 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.959 on social issues, and when these findings of E. Coli 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.120 came out of that test in June, they said, no, 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.400 we've had enough. We're going to protest in the form 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.480 of defecating in the river. Those plans ended up. 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:18.280 This is where I came into the story with zero context. 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.400 A lot of people probably came in at that point. 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:24.000 Those plans ended up being stalled, and it seems like 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:27.600 protesters have eased off on that threat to the relief 0:13:27.640 --> 0:13:28.480 of many, I'm sure. 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.600 And then last week we had the Mayor of Paris 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:32.320 swimming in it. 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:36.160 Yeah, so in an effort to convince locals, to convince 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.400 Olympians and the world, really, we saw the Mayor of 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:42.240 Paris swim in the seen herself. Last week. Mayor and 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:45.160 Hidalgo pledged that it would be safe to swim in 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.360 for the Olympics, and she put her money where her 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.440 mouth was and she jumped on in. She tried to 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.120 prove that point. I haven't heard any news of her 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.360 getting sick from that swim. She did look pretty happy 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.960 while she was prancing around in the sense. So, for 0:13:58.000 --> 0:13:59.520 all intents and purposes, it's clean. 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:05.000 We've just received a very clear scientific analysis from Emma 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.360 Glaspie here at the Daily Ohs. The sin is clean. 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:10.719 You have nothing to worry about. I want to keep 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.559 moving on because, as we've already touched on, there are 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.599 a couple of elements to this question of whether or 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.520 not Paris is ready for the Games. You know, on 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:22.160 the one hand, we've got the political context, and another 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:25.840 we've got the river sen But then there's also another 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.080 element that I've started to see getting a lot of 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:32.200 coverage recently, which is about security and safety. You know, 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:36.400 obviously the Olympics and the Paralympics are these huge moments 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:40.800 of people gathering, and so is Paris prepared in that respect. 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:45.040 Yeah, there's been a lot of international attention on this factor. 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.000 In particular when we look at the kind of local 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.640 response in Paris from police. There's been a crackdown on 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.040 local crime in recent months that's really been about trying 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:58.120 to sort of clean up areas of Paris that will 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.360 be on display for certain events, because there are going 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:02.280 to be events right around the city, not just in 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.359 the middle of the CBD, but that's actually been attributed 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:09.000 to causing overcrowding in Paris prisons. So there's a whole 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:12.720 set of social issues from that crackdown. In terms of 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:15.840 security more broadly, and when we're talking about the thread 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:20.040 of terrorism. Obviously there are safety concerns with any international 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.920 event of this nature, but there are some sort of 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.840 standout quirks to the Paris Games in particular that will 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.600 require extra security. So that includes you know, this opening 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:33.840 ceremony that we've touched on, it's going to be outdoors 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.280 and Olympic opening ceremony has never been held outdoors, so 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:41.200 that's unprecedented. And there's also a bunch of stadiums that 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.520 have popped up as kind of temporary venues. A lot 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.840 of them are open air. They're being built around the city. 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.800 Because of their temporary nature, their kind of security capacity 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:54.280 is a little bit untested, so there is some concern around, 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.680 you know, the pressure that they will place on officials 0:15:56.680 --> 0:16:00.320 to keep everyone safe. The president of the Paris twenty 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.880 twenty four organizing Committee said that every moment of the Games, 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.920 right from the opening ceremony to all the competitions, has 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.600 a quote specific plan to guarantee the security for all 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.800 the accredited persons and the spectators. We can absolutely guarantee 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.840 that security was the priority for Paris twenty twenty four, 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:21.200 and from this base we will build the concept of celebration. 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:25.200 So there's also an exclusion zone around the sin. Anyone 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:27.640 in that zone needs to be properly accredited and be 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:31.240 able to show accreditation. We can also expect to see 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:35.400 international security from competing countries. They will often bring their 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:39.280 own security and there'll be a ramped up presence of 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.960 security at places like local train stations and on the streets. 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:45.160 In terms of numbers, to give you a sense of 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:49.760 the scale, we're talking about around fifty five thousand soldiers, police, 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.640 other law enforcement and military personnel during the Games in Paris. 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.040 Fifty five thousand sounds like a lot, but when you 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:58.200 factor in that they'll be tasked with keeping more than 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.920 ten thousand athletes and million of spectators safe, you know 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:03.000 it's no small job. 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:05.560 And before we wrap up, I have been reading a 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:09.239 lot of headlines about record heat waves in Europe and 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:12.000 of course the Paris Games are being held kind of 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:15.080 in the heat of summer. Is that something that's concerned 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:16.160 for these Olympic Games. 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.639 Yeah, it definitely is, and it's a growing concern for 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:23.320 the Summer Olympics as a concept. More broadly, there is 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.400 a new report that actually flagged these games, the Olympics 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:30.560 and Paralympics could be the hottest in history. That's after 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:34.280 record high temperatures in Tokyo at the last Games. And 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:37.920 these findings came from an Australian athlete led conservation group 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:42.000 called front Runners and the British Association for Sustainable Sport. 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.760 So that report warned that athletes in these conditions in 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:51.720 high heat, risk cramping, exhaustion, injury, heat stroke, disruption to 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:54.560 their sleep patterns that could affect their ability to compete, 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.680 and you know, in the worst case scenario, even the 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:01.359 risk of death from competing in severe heat. So temperatures 0:18:01.359 --> 0:18:04.000 in Paris at this time of year are forecasted to 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:07.320 reach or exceed the mid thirties and the Paralympics, which 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.879 are set for the beginning of September. You know, that 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:12.960 might sound like it's out of the summer period, but 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.280 it could very well also be affected given what this 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.480 report described as the past precedent for heat waves to 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.960 hit France later in the summer. Athletes have also raised 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:27.919 concerns about a lack of air conditioning in the Olympic village. 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.400 This story made headlines a little while ago, but organizers 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.160 actually ended up backflipping on that. So after this sort 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:38.199 of initial plan of a really sustainable athletes village that 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.440 would not have air conditioning, news dropped earlier this month 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:46.480 that two five hundred temporary cooling units would be installed, 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:48.679 so I'm sure a lot of athletes relieved about that. 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:52.159 In a press conference this week, the IOC president Thomas 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:55.640 Buck said the Games would still be quote more sustainable 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:56.280 than ever. 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:01.720 I can tell you Paris is ready than ready, and 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:08.240 we all can prepare for spectacular Olympic Games here in Paris. 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.879 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.680 The Daily os. If you want more news and updates 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:17.280 from Paris, sign up to our Daily Sport newsletter. 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