French President Emmanuel Macron started the 500-day countdown(倒计时) to the 2024 Paris Olympics on Tuesday. The Games will take place from July 26 to August 11. He made the public know his government’s hopes for the Games.
Macron made a “speech of thanks” to hundreds of officials in the Paris police headquarters(总部). He said that though plans are moving forward, nothing should be taken as a guarantee. In the speech, Macron thanked the 45,000 volunteers for taking action to make the Games “a success”. He again talked proudly about the 5,000 new sports grounds that are in the works. Also, officials are trying to get everything ready in time.
Macron also mentioned the 1.4-billion-euro plan to clean the polluted waters of the Seine River. “The Seine River will be made swimmable,” he said. Making the Seine fit for swimming is an old Parisian dream. In 1988, former French president Jacques Chirac, then the city’s mayor(市长), famously promised to make the river swimmable “in three years”. But he never made it come true. The dream has become a necessity because Paris has formally promised to organize several Olympics events in the Seine River, including the 10 kilometre swimming marathon—as it did back in 1900, when it first hosted the Games.
Organisers even plan to take the opening ceremony out of its traditional stadium setting. They want to organize it on water. But some security(安保) experts expressed their concern. They warned about the dangers of uncontrolled crowd movements close to the water.
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