How Paris is Reinventing the Olympics

How Paris is Reinventing the Olympics
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Video Producers:
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Research & Writing:
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[@OBFYT]

Corrections: 1. In the intro I meant income not revenue. 2. The Rio buildings have been abandoned since 2016 so 8 years, not for over a decade

[@ChillCromas]

also the buildings are not completely abandoned either. They are still used for competitions but in smaller scale

[@zeroid105]

15:43 "During the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyongjang, South Korea (…)" Mmmh… sure. ;) Edit: I was made aware that the city which housed the olympics is pronounced very similarly to Pyongyang and so the information in the video was correct. Sorry for my mistake.

[@vinny7114]

​@@ChillCromassmaller events? Really? 😂 That infrastructure was built for the Olympics not some neighborhood matches.

[@yellow_monkey_]

What about London Olympics non of them got abandoned

[@CarlosD374]

@@zeroid105 He said it right. Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea, whereas "PyeongCHang" (notice it is written slightly different) was the city in South Korea where the winter Olympics were held in 2018. A difference hard to spot due to us not being used to their phonemes.

[@adelsonregisteixeira9335]

For me, hosting the Olympic games was the best thing that happened to Rio de Janeiro. The entire port region has been renovated and is incredible. Transport was vastly improved with the expansion of the metro and the creation of a Tram that helped to revitalize the city's historic center. The Olympic village was built with private money. The Olympic park is now a public park with schools and sports classes. The stadiums are being used by local football teams. Unfortunately, only a negative image of the city is presented, which is far from the truth.

[@michellemobakeng5938]

Thanks for presenting a more positive slant to the negative narrative.

[@markkostka6897]

So isn't true that 5 massive stadiums were built and are hardly being used? A lot more than 5 were built so saying "stadiums are being used by local football teams" isn't justifying building 12 to use 7. That's a huge waste of money. Transport was improved for the Rio area, but how about the majority of Brazilians? How about the other cities inland that need it more.

[@jonpirovsky]

​@@markkostka6897that is incorrect information. Many of the arenas that were built were temporary - dismantled and rebuilt as public schools after the event - and the ones that remained are now part of the Brazilian Olympic training center, one of the resulting legacies of the Olympics. The two major large stadiums used for the event, the Maracana and the Olympic Stadium, are used regularly as well. Despite some hiccups - mainly due to corruption and embezzlement - the Olympic Games were largely positive for the city. Transportation in the city has been transformed with the new BRT, light rail and extended subway systems, and the new sports infrastructure really boosted the ability of the city to host events. I remember watching international news then, before the event, and seeing some ludricrous comments about "the capacity of Rio to host the event". What I found quite funny is that most of the concern focused on the number of tourists and whether Rio would be ready to host 'such a large event', instead of focusing on the Olympic infrastructure itself (the legit concern). Foreigners apparently have no clue that Rio hosts two annual events that actually attract more tourists than the Olympics itself: Rio's Carnival and New Year's Eve celebration. So dealing with the Olympics was nothing absurd to deal with.

[@karineds]

@@markkostka6897 The World Cup is one thing and the Olympics is another!

[@UkSapyy]

It's a good reason for a government to invest in infrastructure without people complaining about the amount spent. More nations should use such events as reasons to rapidly expand useful infrastructure.

[@MatheusGiffoni01]

Hey. I'm from rio and I can assure you that the Olympic legacy is not abandoned in the city. Some venues became schools, some are still in use and the one you showed on the video is where the music festival rock in rio takes place nowadays.

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

I doubted the credibility of this video when the French city, neighborhood, town's names were missed pronounced. It's a turn off 😞

[@BSimpson-oh8mm]

The pools were modular and moved to other locations. This isn't a new thing either. The US does this with their trials pools.

[@robin82pb94]

so, it's different than Athens buildings ? Athens was the most cited case, indeed in many countries summer and winter have procuced ruins buildings since the 60's...

[@asmkwo]

as a french person it is always a pleasure to see how france and particularly the OG are seen from the outside. Everyone is so pessimistic about the games in France, critisizing every decision made. But from an external point of view, it all makes much more sense. Thanks for you work !

[@Victor_Gvne]

Merci pour ce commentaire. J'allais l'écrire, mais je vois que c'est déjà fait ! 😉

[@laoup26]

Macroniste

[@g2eneko]

@@laoup26mdr tg

[@keutou1]

Je pense que ça va être un très beau succès! N'en déplaise aux grincheux!

[@MrLeodu72]

Sorry mate but spending 1.4 billion euros to barely make the Seine river swimmable is insane, especially considering that people in Mayotte or La Reunion are struggling getting fresh, drinkable water. On est pas pessimistes, on est choqué de l’utilisation de l’argent publique pour des “jeux” quand notre système de santé est défaillant, nos étudiants dorment dans des taudis et notre taux de pauvreté a doublé en dix ans.

[@Sitskier123]

As a 2022 Paralympian in alpine skiing and someone who has always loved the Games as a whole I really appreciate videos like this highlighting the logistics and preparation of the games themselves. I believe the Olympics and Paralympics are an extremely important event for all of us to bring the world together, and even though they can have major costs and be an inconvenience to some, I hope these games in Paris are a major success that will help spur the Olympic spirit onward.

[@ranha9933]

It s the best Olympics i have ever seen with so much joy, eye for details and beautiful use of surroundings. Kuddos to France, really! I m enjoying so so much.

[@joaojoao718]

The worst ever.

[@beticocr1234]

I hope that the river Seine is clean enough for them to use it in the games, however even if it's not clean enough the city will end up with a cleaner river. This would not have happened without the olympics.

[@_cgan_]

Something that wasn't said during the video is that it rained for months in Paris, from April to June leading to the river not being clean. But now that the weather is better the quality of the water is great, the mayor, the secretary of Sports, the paralympic flag holder and the president of the steering Committee for the Olympics have all jumped in it

[@RaymondHng]

@@_cgan_ I remember when I visited Paris in August 2018, there was a heat wave, 90 F degrees in the shade.

[@lafouine42400]

It just doesn't work, 1B5 for this , ppl who went in it did it for cameras only obviously, took a lot of medication right after cause as you can guess ... the river is full of shit

[@LesGrosPiedsDeDeejay]

It won't be . It's just not possible to be clean enough for that given each time it rains , shit (literraly btw) get from the sewers to the river

[@dreamsofjoy]

@@LesGrosPiedsDeDeejay sure, but this Spring had historical rains and this was before the bassin at Gare d'Austerlitz was inaugurated. If it doesn't continue raining above historical levels, the river should hold "swimmable" standards

[@Evil.Totoro]

The Tokyo Olympics had it rough because of the absence of fans and the revenue that would have come with them. But all things considered, the Olympics went smoothly, with the facilities made for the games still in use.

[@Jose04537]

Tokyo is a city of 35 million people, they can use them for literally anything they wanted with such a massive population to support it.

[@のりづけ]

@@Jose04537 東京都の人口は２０２４年６月時点で14,170,275人だぞ

[@mrsoftnessful]

I went to Rio this past Christmas, and thr olympic village is not abandoned. Its a public space where many people have businesses.

[@khulhucthulhu9952]

the more I hear about the paris olympics, the more I'm interested in the event. It's been long known that the event is an unprofitable expensive mess, but seeing this one being used to work on the issues of the city is amazing. But it also makes me wonder why this couldn't be done any time in the last half a century...

[@syldaviaball9545]

Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, just swam in the seine.

[@DaveFlash]

je chie dans le seine!

[@teluobir]

She is now in Hospital

[@jamiegrant5955]

@@teluobir No, she isn't.

[@michellemobakeng5938]

@@jamiegrant5955 She did

[@michellemobakeng5938]

@@DaveFlash Quand ?

[@wil-LUX]

Irony the day you post the video, river was clean enough so that Hidalgo (major of Paris) swimmed on it.

[@bestgamting]

lol

[@markkostka6897]

Right. It instantly was so clean that the Mayor swam in it. Or...just maybe she swam in it for publicity for the olympics?

[@matmatou907]

​​@@markkostka6897 no, it's just clean according to health expectations

[@cesruhf2605]

@@markkostka6897 you can check the tests

[@ereder1476]

it was not. Result fo the test showned it was bad. hense why she wear a full body suit and stayed a very short time

[@hendrikj8448]

Everyone complains about the olympics not making money but then every means to profit from it is a greedy cash grab?

[@benoitchamplon7149]

The duality of man. But yeah, that's politics, there's always someone to criticize actions, from one side or another.

[@theevilmoppet]

Yeah. There’s going to be practically endless demand for public transit during the games from all the tourists - this is basically the only acceptable time to do a fare hike. Natives won’t be significantly affected because it’s temporary, so they’ll only spend like twenty euro more over the whole games probably. More if they use more public transit obviously. But for the city this will double the earnings from the tourists on transit, which is money that can be funneled back into the massive Grand Paris Express plans to help speed up construction.

[@theevilmoppet]

Paris expects 500,000 people daily to be attending the events. Assuming 2/3 take public transit (which I think is likely, because there’s no way Paris has 500,000 extra cars for rent sitting around), that’s 660,000 euro a day extra generated, for a total of 11.2 million, JUST from the games themselves. Tourists wishing to take the opportunity outside competition times to visit the rest of the city will generate even more trips. I think 15-20 million extra generated by doubling fares is a reasonable number, which isn’t much on the scale of Paris’ expansion plans’ cost, but is regardless still a quite large amount of money, especially compared to running public transit for FREE during the Olympics.

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

Yeah, this is why I don’t like many of these type of arguments. Damn if you do damn if you don’t

[@Homer-OJ-Simpson]

@@theevilmoppetgreat point. In addition, locals have the option to buy monthly pass to avoid the price hike. If they don’t use the public transit enough to buy a monthly pass, it means they don’t use transit much and thus only a small temporary hit for them

[@fiallachm]

Fun to come back afterwards. Fact is the Paris olympics were a smashing success and the risks taken payed off, especially the venues in the city. Most stunning venues in olympic history.

[@miguelsilva-bb4wk]

The Rio Olympics only happened in 2016, and unless you are writing from the future, the stadiums have not been abandoned for a decade, let alone "well over a decade"...

[@izharhafni8459]

Minor error

[@notliquid1448]

These stadiums were built for the 2014 world cup

[@vinny7114]

​@@notliquid1448 True.

[@vinny7114]

Funny how he didn't deny the stadiums were abandoned. Lol

[@AntonioOliveira-tx2or]

@@vinny7114 So, basically, there are very few abandoned structures in Rio, especially because it was an edition that involved many temporary structures. What gave the impression of abandonment was mainly the delay in dismantling and reconverting some structures. Everything in games today in poor condition includes: - BMX Center, Olympic Tennis Center, Rio Municipal Velodrome (Which is undergoing renovations). All other structures that remain are in use and very well maintained. The big problem with the Rio games is much more that they were a tool for a very violent process of real estate speculation. But this is also happening in Paris, as it happened in London, or in Barcelona back then.

[@Youtubork]

This video is spot on: the genius of the French is their ability to deliver exceptional value for money. They’ve pulled off the least expensive Olympics in over 30 years with amazing results. The key? They didn’t build hundreds of structures specifically for the Games at outrageous costs. Instead, they focused on: 1. Leveraging existing infrastructure and transportation that already prove their daily practical use-upgrading and renovating sports venues, conference centers, trains, traffic systems, etc. 2. Integrating the Olympics into the heart of the city by temporarily transforming iconic Parisian landmarks into competition zones (like Beach Volleyball, the Grand Palais, etc) at a very low cost. 3. Assessing the sports market and building temporary structures for anything that wouldn’t find use or funding after the Games. 4. Undertaking projects like the Seine purification to create summer swimming zones for tourists. In short, the French made the Olympics cost-effective yet highly efficient. This might just be the future: hosting events in emblematic city landmarks, using temporary structures where there’s no post-Olympics demand, and renovating or repurposing existing facilities. With this approach, even countries with modest budgets could consider hosting the Olympics.

[@miguelsilva-bb4wk]

Thank god Paris is in a developed country, and wont face the same problems as those olympics in developing countries.... You know... Like London and Tokyo... famously underdeveloped

[@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781]

Lol😂

[@longiusaescius2537]

Only one of those cities is in a devolved country

[@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781]

@@longiusaescius2537 all of them are in developed countries lol

[@charondolls]

Have you even been to Tokyo? It's a mega city with great infrastructure & great urban planning

[@emmanuellevillacroux2769]

Y'all... Pretty sure that was a jokey reference to London ("a devolved country")

[@claude_k]

The poor ratings of the Tokyo Olympics in the US was also due to the time difference which was not at all favorable as most of Japan daytime occurs during the American night: 4PM in Tokyo is 3 AM in NYC or 6 AM in LA.

[@dzheng440]

4 pm in Tokyo is 12 am in Los Angeles and 3 am in New York

[@P_NG]

Just making things clear : the homeless of Paris were merely deported, and left to struggle even more in provincial towns, due to the lack of support networks.

[@jcs3142]

Madrid already proposed to use existing stadiums and submitted a more climate-friendly bid when climate-friendly wasn't still a thing and cities were fighting to build the largest / newest / most expensive stadium. The bid was famously and controversially rejected.

[@hypernewlapse]

Madrid did no such thing lol they just built stuff before being given the olympics beacause they love to spend money on construction, with scams like the ciudad de la justicia or the 7b metro which is making houses sink

[@EunileRaanue]

After Brisbane 2032, Olympics will be back in Europe. Madrid might be the host.

[@MrBaymeric]

​@@EunileRaanuewhat about Asia? I read that India wants the Olympics

[@pearpenguin]

At 7:19 I think I see how my coworkers behave on the daily.

[@das_just_eis]

I was looking for this comment.

[@lincolnlg490]

The president of the organizing committee of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, accused of bribery, had his sentence annulled. Governor of the state of Rio (complaint appears, 0:19) has nothing to do with the mayor of the city of Rio. And it was Rio, the city that organized the Olympic games

[@classjacksonlawsuit]

Where the hell did you find Tokyo generated nearly six billion in revenue? No way did they come close to that based off losing over $800 million in spectator ticket revenue due to the pandemic. Cite your sources bruh.

[@theoc007]

First thing you find is they generated 721 billion yen (statistica) or for 2021 Oct 112円->$1 6.43 billion usd.

[@pocki892]

He probably ment Income

[@hermaeusmora2945]

@@pocki892 even if it was income...how with the pandemic?

[@TheMelbournelad]

@@hermaeusmora2945it was held after the main pandemic waves

[@ventusastrea3850]

Y'all do realize that you the point was to show how much they generated income versus how much they spent. Viewing through that lense Tokyo did not make 6 billion after breaking even, they did not recuperate their spent money on the Olympics. Furthermore you dummy, there is a source list in the description, the source they cited was the 2nd one. Please do your due diligence before complaining in a fit of emotion. Thank you

[@vicentepelegrini8582]

Swimming in the sewer doesn't seem like a good way to reinvent things 😂😂😂 Even Rio managed to clean its bay to the point that dolphins and whales have returned to it

[@FlorinArjocu]

She did have the swim. It happened yesterday, I think.

[@jmhonors8104]

Meanwhile, the 23rd SEA Games held in Manila last 2005 held its opening ceremony at an open air grandstand. 👏

[@anatolepa1306]

So far they're amazing. The venues are the most beautiful ever. Céline Dion on the Eiffel Tower was the most beautiful and emotional moment of the olympic opening ceremonies ever. Nothing made before can compare to that. The ceremony in general might not be the best ever but it was nice to see something new.

[@murphybaker7740]

This already changed when LA hosted in 1984, it just slowly reverted over the years until now

[@welfiblablabla]

Whoever believes that France is powering the grid with wind and solar energy needs to rethink this. Yes, they may probably increase the part of these renewables but most electricity in France is still and will for a long time be nuclear power

[@MCSTNDTCAFAG]

Great! It's even greener.

[@ywen1644]

Well no Co2

[@YgalSharon]

Which is still good though

[@hubertguilmain7888]

Pray for ⚛️

[@youtubeur]

bro what do you mean nuclear power pollutes infinitely less than "renewables" that are almost impossible to recycle and use rare ressources to be built

[@lincolnlg490]

The situation in Brazil was entirely different from other cases. Brazil suffered a parliamentary coup. The president was removed (acquitted in court 7 years later) 10 days after the end of the Olympic Games. As a result, the entire body of managers at the sports ministry was changed. And also all the planning and destination of the facilities. The new government had no commitment to sport, as the previous one had.

[@RedJet-bq6fq]

I’d love to watch a video about the logistics of the Paris 2024 opening ceremonies, like the timing of the boats and recorded parts would be cool to learn about

[@thiagoleobons390]

Just checked on Wikipedia and there has been less than 8 years that the venue he ne mentioned has been "abandoned for well over a decade" in Rio.

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

I doubted this channel information when he missed pronounced the French city neighborhood town's names correctly and he cannot pronounce the city most famous for French wine

[@mgd4634]

As an American who watched the opening ceremony I have to say I was truly amazed. It had to be the most beautiful and impressive Olympics opening I’ve ever had to witness in my 45 years of life and so did my 70 yo father !

[@dimbasz]

And your second father? Did he like it as well?

[@justsomeweebwithamustache2674]

​@@dimbasz christan not able to take a parody detected

[@mgd4634]

@@justsomeweebwithamustache2674 Istg they need to take the broom out their bum

[@WilliamsAK07]

LA in I think 1984 used a few existing venues, so it’s a good thing Paris is doing it too. Olympics are exciting to watch, definitely costly.

[@damiencrossley7497]

I saw the opining they Reinventing it all right!

[@iPhotochop]

Revenue can't be negative... and you say that the Rio buildings have been abandoned for over a decade, even though the Rio Olympics were eight years ago? This is not even a minute and a half in, cmon

[@vukktri]

of course it can, what are you talking about..?

[@Khneefer]

​@@vukktri Income can be negative, not revenue

[@davidjarnot8548]

​@@KhneeferYes, revenue can be negative in certain situations. This typically occurs when a company experiences a decrease in sales or incurs expenses that exceed its revenue, resulting in a negative net income. It's important for businesses to carefully manage their finances to avoid negative revenue situations.

[@Khneefer]

@@davidjarnot8548 You are using word "revenue" as synonym of "income".

[@davidjarnot8548]

@@Khneefer I don't know I just Googled 'can revenue be negative' and this was the answer.

[@syldaviaball9545]

Oh, by the way, Line 11 doesn't go to Saint-Denis Pleyel, it's also line 14. It goes to Rosny Sous Bois, in the east of Paris :)

[@R.A_Riyad]

This is called social business. It is the idea of Professor Dr. Mohammed Yunus. He is the main adviser of the Paris Olympics this year. He is from Bangladesh. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for uplifting millions of people out of property with his idea of microcredit/Microfinance. Now he is working with more than 100 companies and about 53 countries with this social business idea. Just two days ago, he took oath as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh. We Bangladeshi are proud of you sir.

[@florenteveillard2042]

Congrats for your work on this analysis and video, really well done and good objectivity !

[@corentinguillo5577]

5:55 she's swum today :)

[@wannesjacobus15]

your data is out of date most hotel prices are plummeting since hotels and airbnbs are struggling to fill their rooms during the games

[@ottelf]

Seems like they're actually taking a lot of good steps. I'm happy for everyone advantaged by this.

[@garyb2392]

I’ve been critical of previous summer Olympic cities because it was obvious they were using the event as an excuse to improve the cities infrastructure, which is the reason corruption happens and costs skyrocket. There should be a rotation of cities that can host the Olympics thus minimizing cost…Paris would be one of those cities for me. An Olympic event in Paris once every 20yrs as oppose to once every 100yrs. All that said, I’m definitely watching the games.

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

LA 2028, will be hosting summer Olympics for the 3rd time, LA made profits previously. Salt lake City will be hosting Winter Olympics 2035, also it's 3rd time hosting.

[@emeraldoutcast]

You know LA did this too. The whole using existing stadiums.

[@benjamindenton]

You mean 'How Paris is royally shafting the Olympics with a stale baguette...'

[@Ruoxi-Deep-Roots]

Thanks for your video and the quality itself is insanely good compare to those flow on the internet these days. I appreciate your work and it does inspire me to study on my own. Wish to see more like this!

[@darwinpesca4218]

The Olympics it's about sports and never been about religion . Go visit the the museum " Le Louvre " in paris and you will see were all the images from the opening come . To se people make art and then been treatened by radical religious . Educate yourself reed a book , go to a museum .

[@steeven23]

the 2021 Tokyo Olympics must have been very costly to Japan...

[@Tclans]

That clip of the playing garbage collectors 🤣

[@msch7620]

I thought it was very authentic

[@antcutter2922]

I didn't start this video but I already know that it's gonna be something 😂

[@SteenLarsen]

The French electricity grid is already 99% carbon free thanks to nuclear and hydro. Wind and solar are not a climate improvement in France. Actually solar CO2 emissions are 400% worse than nuclear according to UN IPPC figures. (48grams / kwh for solar and 12 grams for nuclear)

[@marlonsegura5201]

No sources are mentioned along the video.

[@KyrilPG]

There are in the description...

[@gao1812]

Trying to tarnish Brazil's image with lies 🙄

[@msch7620]

Honestly it makes me sad. Brazil hosted a beautiful Olympics and kept being slammed with critics. I remember the closing ceremony was warm and representing the country. When Tokyo Olympics happened I realized how much I took it for granted. Tokyo’s ceremonies were underwhelming.

[@Jose04537]

​@@msch7620The Olympics should be celebrated in the same location every time,period; anything else is just an unsustainable waste of money. People are starting to catch up with that fact. That's why for the 2024 Olympics, only 2 cities bid. And the excuse that you need an event to justify investing in the local infrastructure is just disgusting.

[@Lord-ch8vx]

Cara, é verdade A abertura foi bonita Mas rolou muita corrupção na organização do evento Alem de obras que não foram entregas até hoje... Gastos exorbitantes Até sem sentido Já que não trouxa quase nenhuma vantagem pro rio Trouxe visibilidade pro brasil Que já era conhecido Mas não apaga as outras coisa que aconteceram o pessoal que passar pano Ter que trazer olimpíadas pro rio para fazer a obrigação é de cair o c da bunda As olimpíadas de 2024 só 2 países disputaram para sediar Que foi Paris e Los Angeles Isso diz muito viu

[@norbertgierczak6957]

The video title really fell of :skullemote:

[@bearcubdaycare]

A billion and a half Euro spent on cleaning some rivers in a populated area, seems better than spending ten billion on single use facilities. (Of course, why can't governments do such improvements anyway.)

[@antoslv3913]

It's a French company, Atos that takes care of the informatics systems of the Olympics games. And this treat was always there. In Rio there were massive attacks, that nearly. Took the system down, but it was kept secret

[@kakwa]

And Atos is currently in deep financial trouble (not because of the Games to be fair).

[@dmgeo]

You had to use a photoshopped image to imply Rio's Olympics was bad. That really shows how strong your claims are. At least in Rio people could swim without getting sick as in the Seine

[@ooeu-vm6io]

Like... The stadiums are not only used to soccer but shows, events, etc. Also, there were cancelations on the olimpics due fecal residues on water, so... why they can spend billions and brazilians can't? Not only that, athletes hated the beds because they were uncomfortable, there are complaining about the food and other problems on the village. At least Brazil worried with the athletes

[@jeungbou]

Energy from solar and wind in cloudy Europe… If there is one thing Europeans are good at, it is greenwashing. France is big on nuclear power, which is technically carbon neutral.

[@KyrilPG]

There are tons of solar and wind electricity in Europe... It still works when it's cloudy. There's even a large solar array on the roof of the aquatic center. In the Southern half of France, there are plenty of houses equipped with solar panels. There are giant wind farms along the European coasts, and you don't need any sun for that.

[@alioshax7797]

Spain, Italy and Southern France are not cloudy, far from it.

[@teluobir]

I am French and I live in Barcelona. There are just too many images of Barcelona in this video about Paris. It's just strange. Europe is not all the same like "meh, Paris, Barcelona, same shit" … just strange

[@msch7620]

“Polizei” 😂

[@patrickg2120]

Bonjour. Bienvenue au monde entier à Paris. :) Bienvenue aux athlètes du monde entier :) Ces JO vont êtres splendides :) de Paris - France

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

I was hoping that he pronounced the city and neighborhood, town's names correctly

[@puccaland]

Doubling the metro ticket price was to encourage the tourists to buy passes instead which are way cheaper and this way avoid queues inside the stations.

[@Marcyl13x]

15:47 Pyongyang or PyeongChang? Two different worlds

[@Micholex]

Change the title to "How Paris is deinventing the olympics"

[@alkreischer]

The Rio Olympics was 8 years ago, not over a decade ago ;)

[@abarette_]

"minimising its environmental impact" one line later... "and hosting events as far as French Polynesia" So you're telling me NO ONE sees the very obvious contradiction here?

[@juju-od3qx]

event in polynésie are only there so, people who will go to thaiti will only go to tahiti same for athlet

[@KyrilPG]

Transporting the athletes there shouldn't even need a full extra flight... So the environmental impact shouldn't be any larger, or barely, than if they didn't held the competition there. Flights to Tahiti and local hosting accommodations are extremely pricey, which de facto severely limits the number of Olympic visitors in Tahiti to barely more than usual. It's not like they'd transport millions to the other side of the Earth. I'm not even sure if there's 100 or 150 people including athletes and staff. They'll probably group everyone on the same flight combo. Anyway, Tahiti would not allow an invasion of tourists for Olympic surfing events, they are really restrictive in the number of flights and tourists they receive, keeping the destination as exclusive as possible, even during the Olympics.

[@nby149]

Lol really??? Do you know that for every O.G athlets and spectators fly from all around the globe?

[@Game_Hero]

@@KyrilPG It's a scheme to strenghten imperial rule over Polynesia and have everyone sees it as part of France since the independantist parties won the elections there.

[@jkoldenburg8549]

People in the comments not realizing that for the Olympics, a new tower was build which damaged/destroyed parts of it. There was already a tower there that is used every year for the walk competition there. This was also against the wishes of locals

[@antonoff9827]

7:22 the thrash guys 😂

[@yellow_monkey_]

Bro just ignored the London Olympics lol

[@longiusaescius2537]

That's a 3rd world country

[@DonRoux]

No taxes in UK everything is cheap when it is for « people »

[@Lalith333]

@@longiusaescius2537 OK WHAT IS YOUR FIRST WORLD COUNTRY

[@Leo-rj5ie]

7:21 The man dont miss hahahaha

[@clem8236]

"Leon, Bordeu" Lovely accent haha

[@robin82pb94]

The fine line danger is about climate-friendly : good intentione, but in the olympic village, few meat 🥩and air cooler ❄seems is a problem. Fine balance of adventage and disadventage.

[@Assassunn]

WAOW really well documented, congrats!! I just regret that you didn't talk about one of the most controversial aspects: Israël is welcome to the olympic games, while illegally invading other countries since 1967. Russia as a nation not represented is 100% understandable, but this favor to Isräel is outrageous.

[@HugoLall-q9v]

this is just amazing content, love your videos and so happy i found your channel!

[@peartry]

this video aged like fine piss

[@jamesthornton9399]

When there is new sports like Olympic String Collection are started , you sure will not make any money. White Elephant buildings allways seem to be made. An example of spending/planning to spend too much.

[@brianminikin5484]

A bit more editing out of AI material needed, but overall a good solid take.

[@clone370]

At 7:41 you're showing images of Barcelona not Paris

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

I noticed that most of the images here were stock videos and photos

[@Jose04537]

The Olympics should be celebrated in the same location every time, period; anything else is just an unsustainable waste of money. People are starting to catch up with that fact. That's why for the 2024 Olympics, only 2 cities bid. And the excuse that you need an event to justify investing in the local infrastructure is just disgusting.

[@harissatheartist]

So they want the residents to be either inside their houses or leave their cities, so it would be easier for athletes but also millions of tourists??

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

For security and revenue. If France doesn't prepare for highest security, and something bad happens, they will get the blame. Especially 2 wars are still on going

[@mattlau95]

So France is doing what my mom would scramble to do whenever she knew guests would be visiting the house

[@abarette_]

pretty much! kek

[@Misterjingle]

Paris* My part of France is very clean (French Alps) just like most of the country... And we already used to have million of tourists each year here

[@aritrakarakart5163]

The opening ceremony was a huge disappointment. It just looked very nonchalant and awkward.

[@楊冀華]

： Paris Olympics wants to write world history The result is Painting a tiger is not like a dog(Draw a tiger like a dog) The best proof is Our planet is a lonely speck of dust, wrapped in the vast darkness of the universe. In our limited knowledge, in this vastness. There is no sign that help will come from elsewhere to help us redeem ourselves. ("Booking a New Universe", author: Carl Shagen, translator: Qiu Hongyi, publisher: Think Tank Co., Ltd., publication date: 1996/08/01.) Case: This is like a brain in a bucket of basic philosophical questions, the brain It is this planet, universe or being, and the barrel is the darkness. In fact, this can be further said: this is a discussion issue in the sense of life and death, and this is also the basic question of philosophy, whether this world exists or does not exist. Yes, that is the Bible Genesis. None, that is a further step forward from Wittgenstein’s seventh proposition: Shut up! This is the true meaning of darkness, and this is the meaning of a barrel. The author is saying that darkness means nothing, which is even worse than Kant’s noumenon of fundamental evil! Therefore, the darkness of Kalshagen is the ontological nothingness of nothingness. The truth of existence: This world is not existence but nothingness. Therefore, world history is meaningless, and French history is meaningless. This is called: anti-canine! ： 巴奧想寫世界史 結果卻是反類犬 最好的證明就是 我們的這顆星球，是一粒孤孤單單的微塵，被包裹在宇宙浩瀚的黑暗中。在我們有限的認知裡，在這一片浩瀚之中。沒有任何跡象表明：救助會從別處而來，幫助我們救贖自己。(《預約新宇宙》，作者：卡爾．沙根，譯者：丘宏義，出版社：智庫股份有限公司，出版日期：1996/08/01。)案：這像哲學基本問題的桶中腦，腦就是這顆星球、宇宙或存有，桶就是黑暗。其實，這還可以進一步的說：這是在生死的意義下，討論議題而這也正是哲學基本問題的有無問題，乃這個世界到底是有還是無存在。有，那就是《聖經˙創世紀》。無，那就是維根斯坦第七命題的更進一步：閉嘴！這就是黑暗的真諦，這更是桶的意義，筆者乃謂黝无而什麼都沒有的更甚康德根本惡之本體无！因此，卡爾沙根的黑暗，乃黝无的本體无。存在的真相：這個世界不是有存在而是無。所以，世界史便毫無意義，法國史乃無奈米意義矣。此謂：反類犬！

[@ecoideazventures6417]

Everytime a Olympic event is held, there will be talk about how its economics wont work. That is because they are moving from city to city building infrastructure. Rather if they should rotate among few cities in each continent so that existing infrastructure is utilised

[@bluegold1026]

Sadly it may comes to that if no one wants to host, but I don't see that happening anytime soon. Plenty of cities and countries are lining up to host the next few Summer Olympics, with bids confirmed from Indonesia, India, Turkey and Chile.

[@FlorinArjocu]

New countries want to have us see their (sometimes) newly achieved status on the World scene. Only if it becomes too expensive they will not do it. But then watch Qatar's World Cup, in the middle of the desert they built sport stadiums and accommodation just to show off, so I guess there will be someone willing to that also in the future.

[@bluegold1026]

@@FlorinArjocu Look no further than Saudi Arabia wanting to host the 2034 FIFA World Cup. Personally I think that should go to China instead because at least they have stadia already built.

[@Game_Hero]

Unfair advantage to these cities, missed opportunity to show the culture of other places as if continents are unified blobs of the same culture and have the infrastructure in place improved.

[@FlorinArjocu]

In this case, most, if not all of the investments made for the Olympics will stay in place for a better Paris. Quite nice, except for the lack of AC in the middle of the summer in the accommodation, so many countries said they will bring mobile ACs - I do hope the electric grid can cope with all that extra power that was not in the plans.

[@KyrilPG]

Though all the athletes and media village apartments are naturally cooled, with a set of structural passive temperature control features. They might need AC if they are used to freezing AC like in the US, but they won't require as much power simply because of the already lower temperatures compared to conventional buildings.

[@perrinerichard3488]

The AC is an North-American / Asian thing. Only few homes have AC in France and in the South mostly. The heat is dry and not damp (like fFlorida or South-east Asia) + we use outside shutters / soler protection during the day to avoid sun heating indoors. Unfortunately in recent years, building are huge windows and AC inside, but in Europe, that's not the norm except for workspace. Most cities have urbanism specifications asking for soler protection and can refuse building permit (to make it short energical audit is asked before the permit award and discourage AC use). The electrical grid is dimensionned for cold winters when most houses are electrically heated. Electricty peaks are in december in France. Also it is connected to all EU grids so it can be bought to other countries with a higher carbon footprint but still possible.

[@FlorinArjocu]

@@perrinerichard3488 True, but that was in the past. See the heat wave that passed through Europe last week, we had 35 degrees here, but in other parts of southern Europe there were 42-43 degrees. Climate is changing and passive climate protection does not work anymore (unless it is very advanced and expensive). The performance athletes want constant temperature to sleep at noon, it has become so advanced and competitive that for them every little factor might win or lose a medal. We sre not talking about simple people who can adapt, these athletes come for 2 weeks and perform for the highest title in their career.

[@Jeff-zc6rr]

France doesn't have a pool?

[@maxbtl]

Too many factual errors in this one. This is not okay

[@shakeelali20]

That's a pretty common theme in OBF videos. It's the main thing that stops me subscribing to them. Also the fact that their entire style of narration, animation and storytelling is a blatant ripoff of far more accurate and successful channels. I encourage the team here to actually branch out and find their own style, but it doesn't look like that'll happen.

[@ja1111112]

that's huge

[@ShivamGhosh-x2s]

Are you looking for a video editor

[@luckysloth25]

atleast they spent their money on something that they will do eventually but made use of this event to make their river cleaner because rivers in the middle of big cities are usually dirty because of the sewege system. It's smart that the project was started for something like the olympics but ultimately will be used in the long run for cleaner river. olympica is for the cqpitalists and the facilities built are for the environmentalists It's a win-win situation. what a better way to still coax the capitalists in to doing something for the environment. ofcourse there is big money involved but still.

[@Thomas-rg4vz]

How is this video 3 days ago and not up to date to récents events ? Bad journalism

[@SantiagoVelezRestrepo]

7:20 that guy is gonna win the gold medal of garbage bag throwing competition

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

These images are stock videos/photos

[@WDI2008]

Los Angeles 2028 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games!

[@Yue2000thegamer]

As a french person I feel ashamed of what y'all saw

[@borealis312]

Mayor Hidalgo was to swim in the river on June 23rd. This video has been released on July 16th. And you didn't say she swam in the river or not. Please make better videos. And watch them yourselves before releasing

[@FlorinArjocu]

She swam 1 or 2 days ago. In June there was lots of rain and the water was still not good, but that changed. It is mid July.

[@COMEINTOMYWORLD]

Paris reinvented The Games by having an opening ceremony with a budget of two bucks. The most embarrasing thing on tv I've ever seen. And by having crazy ambitions like expecting contestants swimming in a very polluted river. Paris also reinvented the games by having a complete failure to deliver the infrastructure promised like new train lines. The first time in over 48 years this has happened.

[@justsomeweebwithamustache2674]

man do be mad, it was however an objectively interresting opening ceremony, your opinion to think it was embarrasing, I'm however quite glad the event represented france past and present history, an history of revolution inclusion and had the balls to make a parody of the cène, even if as we all know christians can't take a parody without being mad, christians or any other religion I'd say even

[@dhrubabarua2443]

​@@justsomeweebwithamustache2674 You do not have to be a Christian to think that the parody was disgusting. The parody mocked Christianity, and the religion means a lot in the lives of billions of people around the world. It is not inclusion if you mock a major religion of the world. They showed a naked man with his balls exposed on live TV, which was very inappropriate because there were millions of children worldwide who watched the opening ceremony. The Olympics were always supposed to be politically neutral, but this time, they made it about a certain agenda.

[@NicolasViard-kc9dm]

The venues in Paris are the most beautiful ever seen in any Olympics. The trains issue was the result of massive sabotage. Everything got fixed in 36 hours. I hated the woke part of the ceremony but there was a thunderdtorm right above the city. Try at least to be fair and factual but haters gonna hate i guess...

[@justsomeweebwithamustache2674]

@@NicolasViard-kc9dm that I can agree with, well I didn't hate the woke part, I actualy think it's gonna become more and more "normal" with time, but that's up to personal opinion

[@akmalhafiz8763]

I just hope there's no shark in the river.

[@Trisjack20]

:) Is that a film reference :D

[@Mrgunsngear]

🇺🇸

[@c4rllus957]

Ae gringo, have you ever heard of "Vampetasso"?

[@zukacs]

big if true

[@Ballistic-vn6em]

They putting people to swim in a dirty river, cmonnnn