Amazing Paris Olympics Builds Changing Things for the Better

The Paris Olympics are set to be one of the most thrifty in the post-war period. There are very few newbuild stadia planned or completed.

Instead, Paris is re-using existing facilities to offer a budget Olympics. Can new technology still give it the va-va-voom for which Paris is famous?

How exactly do you balance the need for Olympic spectacle, and economic realism in the 21st century?

00:00 Why Paris is Looking to Keep the Olympic games Cheap
00:45 Olympic Venues After the Games
01:48 Maintenance Cost of Olympic Venues, and Debt Caused
02:12 The Benefits Cities get from Hosting the Olympics
02:50 Locations of Venues and Building Projects for the Paris Olympics
03:15 How Much is Paris Spending on the Olympics?
03:39 Is Paris Ready for the Olympic Games?
04:00 How Paris 2024 will be the First Carbon Neutral Games
05:10 Opening the Aquatic Centre in Paris
05:42 Rejuvenation of Paris for the Olympics
05:49 Building the Paris Olympic Village and How it Will be used After the Olympics
06:05 How the 1924 Olympic Games Improved Paris
06:25 The Paris Metro Won't be Finished in Time
07:09 Cleaning the River Seine for the Olympics

[PeregArBagol]

I'm French, I don't particularly like Paris and won't be following the games. But this video sparked an interest. There seem to be quite a few good decisions in there. Well done Paris for trying to achieve carbon neutrality, reusing older facilities, repurposing buildings into social ones, the use of wood buildings etc..
Thank you for this interesting video

[Furitokama]

Long wait for a train at Charle de Gaulle airport ? The airport is served by the the RER B, there is a train every 5 minutes leaving from the airport at rush hours.

[realalbertan]

The actual pool in Rio was relocated and the stadium was never meant to house it permanently. The competition pool in Paris is also temporary pool. The permenant aquatics centre is hosting diving, water polo and artistic swimming

[RandallRedman-sqhk]

I watch a lot of Olympic Coverage. For instance, Sochi. The lighting of there Cauldron. The Cauldron was outside the Stadium. It was breath taking. As was Beijing. Los Angeles 2028 will need something different than the same old 1932 and 1984 Cauldron. Robin Roberts of ABC. I have a Great Idea if Los Angeles reads this. How about putting the Cauldron outside near the Statues Similar to Sochi.

[MrWhiskers]

Calgary’s 1988 Winter Olympics were done so efficiently it actually made a substantial profit… the only one to do so in the modern era, we are told…?

[stickynorth]

I love that Paris is hosting and that it's already made for mega events like this. Don't love the prospect of athletes swimming sh*t-infested/infected waters even after $1.5B and a waste-water treatment plant later...

[GL-bzfy]

it will still be better than beijing or sochi