junesim63, "Essentially, staging an Olympic Games is about improving how the world thinks of you. With an absoluteness hard to describe, Parisians don’t give a stuff what the world thinks about them. It is, by far, their best feature"
As someone who has lived and worked in Paris, I wholeheartedly concur.
#Paris #Olympics2024 #FranceYou think Parisians grumble a lot? Don’t get them started on the Olympic Games | Robert McLiam Wilson | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/18/you-think-parisians-grumble-a-lot-dont-get-them-started-on-the-olympic-games