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00:30How are you? Good evening, this is Carlos Montero from Paris and today kickoff the Olympics 2024
00:41and there is so much information which has to give you a lot of controversy. Argentina started
00:49with soccer, with football, they tied the game, the VAR said no, it was an upside, they had to
00:56come back the players but I'm going to tell you this is only a tease, I'll tell you later what's
01:01going on and how Paris is getting ready for this coming Friday, that's going to be the opening
01:07ceremony, really it's a fantastic city that's dressing up for a big event, it's the third time
01:13that Paris is going to be host of an Olympic game. In this special program it's going to be with us,
01:22let's go first with Eduardo Regonesi. Eduardo is going to be in different
01:27points of the city and he's ready to talk to us. Eduardo, good afternoon. Hello Carlos, how are you?
01:36What a day, what a day. Finally the day has come, the Olympics 2024 are on the way, as you said
01:44though the opening ceremony is not until Friday, it's two or two days away from that but the action
01:50started today with a lot of controversy, as you mentioned football and rugby started, we will be
01:56talking specifically about football because something that is probably unheard of in any
02:02competition happened today, we will be talking about that, I'm not going to spoil you just yet,
02:07I'm going to invite you to come back because we're going to be talking about this also,
02:11the beautiful city, we are right in front of the Arc of Triumph because the landmarks of Paris are
02:17going to be one of the main protagonists of this story as well, we will talk about that in just a
02:23little bit. Carlos, I'll go back with you right now. We have a lot of things to talk about, I know a lot
02:29of people on social media they're really upset of what's happened with Argentina and other people
02:34are happy because they said it was unfair that Argentina tied that game. Another of our collaborators
02:41in this special program, we are going to be from today until the end of the Olympics, August 11th,
02:47is Charlie Monteiro. Charlie has the chance to talk to different Parisians who are here
02:54experimenting this beautiful organization, the Olympics Games.
03:11Hi Carlos, how are you? We are here in Paris and the streets of this beautiful city and I had the
03:26opportunity to talk to people about their excitement for the Olympic Games, so stay
03:30tuned because in just a little bit we're going to listen to their testimonies.
03:33Like I was telling you before, Charlie has the chance to talk to foreign people who are here in
03:40Paris and people from Paris who said, my god, this is running crazy, I want to get out of this city,
03:46but let's talk about the sports today. It was a wonderful day for people who love football, for
03:53people who love soccer. The kickoff of this tournament was with the Olympic Games, the
04:00kickoff of this tournament was with Argentina, it was the first game of the day. Argentina played
04:08Morocco, it was a very exciting game, but it was really insane, it was crazy because Morocco was
04:16winning 2-0, they go to the second half, it was winning 2-1 and the referee said, we are going to
04:25give extra time, you know how much time he gave? 15 minutes, that's something unbelievable and
04:33Argentina scored in the 15th minute and the game was tied. Finish game, finish over, stop.
04:41One hour later, the bar said, I'm sorry, we were watching the video and it was an upside,
04:48the last goal of Medina, a young kid from my team, from Boca Juniors. What do we do now?
04:55They said, let's play three more minutes. The football players were already inside of the
05:03lockers, many of them were taking a shower, they have to go back, they have to warm up for 10 minutes,
05:11they played three minutes and nobody scored, so that Morocco, who did a great World Cup in Qatar,
05:20finished fourth, today started with a win. Great way to start, but it was not the only game,
05:28there were seven games, also today was rugby seven, to talk about all this is with us Eduardo
05:37again. Eduardo, I was giving a brief summary of what's happened in the Argentina game, that we
05:43couldn't believe it because it just happened when we were here waiting to start this show. How
05:49people react, I know in social media people were upset and now first people who are against
05:56Argentina were upset, now the Argentine people, they are really mad, Mascherano, the coach,
06:03I've never seen a circus like this, how people experiment this game where you are?
06:11Carlos, you're asking me a very difficult task to explain what happened today, I think every
06:16football fan in the world should be upset, I was listening to your summary and if I wouldn't have
06:22read it before, I would have thought that you were kidding, that you were joking, because this is
06:26something unheard of, there's a meme, there's jokes on the internet, you know what they say,
06:32I don't expect anything from you and yet you still disappoint me, I think that's what people feel
06:37with FIFA, we've seen it in many many occasions, the VAR especially, it's a disaster, it has not
06:44been applied well in Europe, it works most of the time in good conditions, we saw it at the Euro,
06:50but in Latin America and other places, it's not the case and what happened with Argentina,
06:56an hour and a half after the final whistle, the game is called the other way, it's simply
07:02simply unheard of, but let's talk about other results, because at the end of the official
07:08Paris 2024 page says Morocco won 2-1, so the game goes to Morocco, Spain defeated Uzbekistan
07:15as well in football, this is the first action today and we will be waiting for Dominican Republic
07:21and Egypt, apparently the game it's done right now, we're live, but it's 0-0 between Dominican
07:26Republic and Egypt and later on Paraguay is going to be facing Japan, that's the three countries that
07:32we're going to be following, especially the Latin countries that we're going to be bringing you all
07:36the details, hopefully the next games will be more straightforward, the game will stop at 90 minutes
07:43and we will not have any surprises later on, let's talk a little bit about rugby, shall we Carlos,
07:49I know Argentina, it's a big rugby country and they started in a very very good manner, they
07:56defeated Kenya, this is rugby 7, I want to talk a brief moment about that, it's not the traditional
08:02rugby that you see, it's 7 a side, 7 players per side and much much shorter games, rugby games
08:10are 80 minutes long, these games are 14 minutes long, so this allows for the teams to play twice
08:16a day, Argentina played Kenya early today, defeating them and they're going to be playing
08:20later on tonight against Samoa around 7.30 local time, Uruguay, the other Latin American nation,
08:29lost to Fiji and they're going to be playing France later on tonight, Fiji is the two times
08:35gold medal, they won the previous tournament in Tokyo and Rio, those are the first time that
08:41rugby 7 was introduced as a sport and Fiji has two gold medals and Argentina is going to go
08:47to surpass the bronze medal they got last time around, do we have time Carlos to talk a little
08:53bit about security because I don't know if you can see it right now, there's a lot of police
08:57officers behind me, you've seen it too as we walk around, a lot of fences, the streets were cut off,
09:04a lot of police officers, just a quick fact, there's 14,000, 45,000 police officers in France
09:12right now and 10,000 soldiers that are being supported, the French army, this is the biggest
09:18military camp in Paris since World War II, so it's a lot of security, they have drones
09:25flying around the city, they have helicopters, AI, they're using facial recognition
09:31secure to guarantee the security of these Olympic games, that in terms of security,
09:41yes Carlos, I can hear you, oh I'm sorry, I was going to ask you because about the security,
09:46especially about what's going to happen next Friday, for the first time, the opening ceremony
09:53is not going to be in a stadium, it's going to be on the sign, it's behind me, the river sign,
09:59but my question is, what the president Emmanuel Macron said, that he wants that
10:05in the beautiful emblematic places of Paris, of this beautiful city, they have a chance to be
10:12part of the stadium, the stadiums are ready because Friday is the official opening and
10:19Sunday starts on Saturday too, you know, all the games, are they ready, all the facilities?
10:26We're talking about security, French president said that it was a crazy idea to have the opening
10:30ceremony in the Sena, which I bet was a big headache for security details, to guard six
10:36kilometers of parade in the Sena, but as you said, most of the facilities, they were working on them
10:44in these couple of days, they seem to be ready, although there's a bit of controversy, the Judo
10:49Federation, the president of the Judo Federation said that their facility, where they're going to
10:53be playing, is not completed, it's not adapted properly for Judo, he quoted, I mean, he in fact
11:00said, I don't want to talk about the specifics because I don't want to embarrass the local
11:05authorities, but he said that that specific stadium is not ready, but just on that, a quick
11:11note on that, France decided not to build too many new stadiums, instead they decided to build
11:17outdoor complex, this kind of the stadiums that you build and disarm after the games are done,
11:23using the historical landmarks, for example, the Eiffel Tower, right on the feet of the Eiffel
11:29Tower, they built a beach volleyball course, we're going to have Chile, Cuba and Brazil
11:35playing their matches there at the beach volleyball with a beautiful Eiffel Tower
11:38as a backdrop, so it's going to be fun, it's going to be interesting to see all these new stadiums
11:44and as you were asking me Carlos, most of them are finished and ready to go for the next couple
11:49of days. It's going to be really beautiful, the open ceremony, it's going to be unique,
11:54at least 10,500 athletes have men, have women first up, than in an Olympic, you have equal
12:02number of male and female, but what I was going to ask you, Eduardo, about those games, there are
12:09two nations that are not going to participate in this Olympic, Russia and Belarus,
12:16because what's going on in Ukraine, what do people say about that?
12:23It's a bit of a controversy, Russia was banned from participating, the athletes were not banned
12:29themselves, they can participate, but they can't do it as independent neutral athletes, they cannot
12:35Russian flag, you're not going to see the Russian flag, tennis player Danny Medvedev is one of the
12:43main ones, but only 15 Russian athletes are going to be here in Paris, that's a big change
12:48from last Olympics in Tokyo, only 15 for such a big federation, but they decided to boycott
12:56the games, in fact the Russian public televisions are not going to broadcast the game for the first
13:00time since 1986, as a sign of boycott to the French government.
13:07We have many days to talk about these wonderful games, I'm sure, and they started today with
13:12controversy, Eduardo in communication with us, you know that today is the start of the sport,
13:19yesterday was the Olympic day, why was the Olympic day yesterday? Because there is a person,
13:27particular, very eccentric, Pierre de Coubertin, he was the one who imagined to have those different
13:35nations competing, let's talk a little bit about him, we have this profile of him.
13:43The promoter of the modern Olympic games, Pierre Freddy de Coubertin, born in Paris in 1863,
13:51still struggles today between light and shadow, some see him with pride, but others point the
13:57finger at him, and not only because when he imagined the Olympic games, he wanted to reserve
14:02the event for men and a certain social elite, far from the contemporary notion of universalism.
14:08Let's see, Pierre de Coubertin, his aristocratic family gave him the title of Baron, he studied
14:15in England, where he learned the doctrine of muscular Christianity, oriented towards the search
14:21for spiritual perfection throughout sport, fascinated by the ancient Greece, its myth,
14:26gods and heroes, including the Olympians. The young Baron de Coubertin was struck by the fact
14:32that during the Olympic Games, held for more than 11 centuries, all wars were suspended,
14:38enthused with such ideas, Coubertin began to spread his sporting method, he created
14:44athlete societies and founded the Review of the Clique, the first magazine dedicated to sports.
14:50On June 26, 1894, the International Congress of Physical Education decided to institute the
14:57Olympic Games of the modern era, and presented a motto, Sitius Altius Fortius. Coubertin pulled
15:04some strings, raised funds, and on March 24, 1896, King George of Greece pronounced for the first
15:12time these words, I declare open the first International Olympic Games of Athens. Pierre
15:18de Coubertin was at the head of the International Olympic Committee until 1925, but over his figure
15:24hence the shadow of his relationship with Adolf Hitler. Archives of the Third Reich give account
15:31of a letter dated March 17, 1937, where he thanks the German regime for its contribution to his
15:38jubilee year, the 50 years of his action of promotion of the sport. Historians have documented
15:45Nazi Germany's trails of payments to an endowment fund created by Pierre de Coubertin. The Third
15:51Reich planned to open an International Olympic Institute in Berlin and courted Courbain,
15:57organizing unsuccessfully his candidacy for the Nobel Peace Prize. The promoter of the
16:02modern Olympic Games, he held points in common with Nazi ideology, such as not wanting to see
16:08women in the stadiums and believing in the superior essence of the white race.
16:15Talking about controversy, let me finish with an update. The Dominican Republic, who didn't have a professional
16:22league until 2015, today opening a tie with Egypt 0-0. And with that information, see you all tomorrow.
16:30Thank you for being with us.
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