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00:00People have of course left Paris or threatened to leave because they mentioned it. Do you feel like it's chaos right now?
00:05I feel like a lot of Parisian went on holidays the one who lives are not far from the scene
00:12But I think that there's a lot of Parisian just waiting for the games to begin
00:17the
00:19Opening ceremony and choosing
00:22Historical sites in the center of Paris is audacious. That's what you said
00:26And I do believe it is
00:29But I think the main problem with
00:31Parisian is that we don't talk much much about sports and we don't talk about the events. We talk only about the security
00:38we talk about the lockdown and you know, there's not this this atmosphere that we're supposed to have and
00:45Just cheering for the French team and looking forward to who's gonna win some medals and to understand
00:52Who is gonna represent the country and I think that's
00:55for now
00:56We're only on focusing on the security issues and it's scary because I know I've been to
01:02Olympics when it's in the stadium you you felt like you can't control most things down the scene
01:08But that's gonna be a lot of peaches nice speeches, but I hope that we'll be able to switch
01:14the
01:15Parisian mindset and to enjoy the games and to encourage and support the tweets
01:22And some might say this is wouldn't be the Paris Games if there wasn't complaining to this
01:27Every every Olympics since I've ever been thinking about Olympics, which is now since the late 80s
01:33As soon as the games start the ferry and the magic dust settles over the city and there is it's all forgotten Craig said exactly
01:41Perfectly everything I was thinking
01:43The problem we've got is the French are not
01:46That'll be the Parisians are not big sports fans and the Parisians are not great crowds. I'm not gonna lie
01:52They always complain like get them out of the city good go away
01:56They will regret forever not being in this in the city their home city when the greatest show in the world came to town
02:02Their kids and grandkids was saying what were you doing during the Olympics are we went down to the south or wherever they went?
02:07But no, they're missing it you should be in this city it is gonna be
02:13Spectacular for the next two weeks
02:14It's true because you would expect especially in other countries that there'd be more that there is this more of like party atmosphere and more
02:19Like we're so proud to be hosting these games and at least that's what we saw in the last editions
02:24Maybe Tokyo was of course slightly different with the pandemic, but you think of Rio you think
02:28London and of course those games had their issues as well
02:31But there was this sense of of pride that we don't necessarily feel quite so much in Paris
02:36It is quite striking what we're seeing in Paris right now
02:39If you look at some of the polling that's been on this
02:41It's it's remarkable really one poll found that some 44% of people in the Paris area
02:47Think that the Olympics are a quote bad thing another one found that
02:5265% thought it was they were either indifferent to the Olympics concerned about the Olympics or actually angry about the Olympics like you don't tend
02:59To see numbers like that so close to the games, but you know your correspondent in the field there raised some interesting points
03:06You don't have to take an anecdote from the field there you can look at the European tour operators Association
03:11Which is an industry group that advises tour operators across Europe?
03:14And they've been saying for years that you know the Olympics have their benefits for sure
03:18It's a wonderful sports party feel-good factor through the city
03:22But it's not a money-making opportunity for the tourism industry and we need not fool ourselves like this isn't a bunch of
03:29Marxist economists sitting in some university somewhere
03:31This is the European tour operators Association that people pay to give the best advice
03:37And so it's a really big trade-off that we're seeing in Paris
03:40And it doesn't seem like people in Paris are yet quite keen to it