The Olympic flag officially arrived in Paris on Monday. And that’s it, eyes are already on the 2024 Olympics, which will be played in the capital in less than three years. Beyond the sporting issue, the Games in France represent an eminently political issue, as the presidential election looms in just seven months. For the candidates, declared or probable, the Games are also a way of taking center stage.
Hidalgo, central figure
Starting with Anne Hidalgo. The mayor of Paris is not yet declared a candidate but in recent days, it is she who has established herself as the central political figure of these Olympics. She said it again yesterday after waving the Olympic flag in front of the Town Hall. “It’s a huge emotion. One hundred years later, the flag is there and flies again here in front of the Town Hall and in Paris. These Games will do us good and we will be at the rendezvous of our history. “
In the entourage of Anne Hidalgo, we assure him: “The Olympics are her baby. She was the one who fought for us to have 2024.” It should be remembered that Emmanuel Macron had just been elected President of the Republic when Paris won the Games in September 2017. So, blows a relative, “we must give back to Caesar what is Caesar”.
The arguments of Macron, Pécresse, Jadot
Emmanuel Macron, too, wants to place himself at the center of the game. It is also he who revealed to the press that the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris would take place on the Seine and not in a stadium, like the wants tradition. The President of the Republic also wanted to be present in the recorded clip, and broadcast at the closing ceremony in Tokyo, while he is on vacation at Fort de Brégançon. An adviser confides that 2024 will be a “lever” for the ambition that Emmanuel Macron carries for the country.
On the side of the other candidates, in the camp of Valérie Pécresse, we highlight the economic advantage that the Olympics represent for the Île-de-France region that she chairs, and for France, that she hopes to chair. And we laugh at the passage of Anne Hidalgo who, it is said, “clings to these Games to give herself stature”. As for Yannick Jadot, he takes the opportunity above all to distinguish himself from his environmental rivals. “Yannick loves the Olympics”, slips a relative. “He’s not one of those chafouins who have a problem with athletic competitions.”
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