Unexpectedly, carrying air conditioning to the Olympics has become the biggest challenge of the Paris Olympics.
In a recent interview, Huo Qigang reluctantly said that the Hong Kong delegation can only bring its own air conditioning, "I have been the head of the delegation many times, and this is the first time such a challenge!" ”
Ever since countries discovered that there was no air conditioning in the Paris Olympic Village, they were shocked.
Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany and other countries have already stated that they are either ready to carry air conditioning to the competition, or buy directly in France.
The president of the Greece Olympic Committee has publicly called for the purchase of air conditioning for athletes "at all costs". Although Korea did not buy air conditioners for athletes, it still gave people a shoulder of ice.
The Olympics have not yet begun, but the news is more magical than the other: locals collectively singing against each other, on the Seine, announcing that the Olympic Village will not provide french fries, security strikes...
Polls show that 52% of Parisians consider leaving the city during the Olympics.
This Paris Olympics, is it really so shabby?
Running the Olympics makes athletes pay for it,
Paris set a precedent
After the successful Olympic bid, France's attitude seemed to be reliable, saying that "planning a completely different Olympic Games from the past".
But this difference is indeed a bit unexpected.
The Olympic Village, which lasted seven years and cost 2.2 billion euros, became the most expensive project of the Paris Olympics.
With the vision of creating "the most responsible and sustainable Games in history", the Paris organisers have created an Olympic Village that runs on 100% renewable energy – but the doors in every corner cannot be hidden.
The organizers announced that the 14,250 beds, mattresses and stools in the 3,000 apartments are made from recycled materials.
During the Tokyo Olympics, this type of bed also received a very popular name: cardboard bed.
For this Olympic Games, the bed was made of low-carbon concrete, wooden structure, reinforced cardboard and recycled fishing nets.
However, as soon as the Olympic menu came out, I knew what real green was.
Earlier, in a previous survey of 200 athletes conducted by the Paris Organising Committee, only about 5% of athletes said they were vegetarians.
As soon as the France slapped the table, he immediately said that the proportion of vegetarian dishes in the contestants' menus would account for 60%! The strangest thing is that the Olympic Village is also unable to provide french fries for "technical reasons".
And so – China has not only air conditioners but also chefs arriving by air.
In addition, France has spent 1.4 billion euros (about 11 billion yuan) to clean up the Seine.
The reason is that France boldly decided to move the opening ceremony outside the Seine in Paris, to have an open-air opening ceremony, and to use the Seine as a competition venue.
The France government expects to open 600,000 spectators, most of whom can watch the opening ceremony by the river for free.
As early as 1923, the France government banned swimming in the Seine.
Now it is necessary to let athletes from all over the world go into the water to play with their lives, and this time they swim in the river, and they don't know how many pages of the periodic table they have to drink.
An ambitious governance plan has been on the agenda since 2018, and the original plan was to be roughly completed this summer.
But environmental NGOs say they sampled the Seine's water quality 14 times between September last year and April this year, and found that none of them met the standards.
In April, a water charity said that it had tested the water in the Seine and found that E. coli bacteria were so high that it was not suitable for swimming at all.
Perhaps for the sake of face, the mayor of Paris recently jumped into the Seine and swam passionately.
All in order to implement the Olympic theme of "Green and Participation".
Paris is now facing a serious overrun: the total cost of the Paris Olympics will be as high as 11.8 billion euros, far exceeding the original budget of 6.6 billion euros, due to the increase in necessary investments in security and infrastructure.
The Paris Olympics are not yet here,
The locals turned their faces first
Even more unexpected than the Olympics were the various reactions of the France.
Who would have thought that the last person to give Macron face was the local people in France. Some France self-media bloggers took to the streets for random interviews and got a bad evaluation:
"Not at all ready", "Maybe it's an international shame", "We have more important things to do besides the Olympics..."
Macron set up the stage in front of him, while the France followed behind and dismantled wherever he went, without giving face.
Locals protested for two reasons: first, they felt that the money was not being spent in the right place.
For example, swimming in the Seine, which Macron considers "the most romantic thing", has been met with the most fierce opposition because it costs huge financial and material resources to remediate.
Two months ago, some testing agencies were still not optimistic about the clean-up plan, and called for the Olympics to make a few filings - I was afraid that it would rain heavily during the Olympics, causing the sewage treatment plant to drain the river again, and there would be no competition for the competition.
The locals in France were ready to do a flash mob, calling on Parisians to on the Seine on the same day that the president went swimming and shouted a loud slogan:
They threw us into the manure pit, and it was also their turn to bathe them in the manure pit.
What's more, it doesn't matter if you're not in Paris, you can still send poop over. Because netizens have set up a website, as long as you enter the approximate distance from Paris, it can help you predict the time of pooping according to the speed of the river.
Then you fly in the river according to this time, and the poop will arrive at the scene exactly when Macron is swimming.
Second, I think it's too much of a toss-up.
The France government plans to require that all police officers on duty not be on leave during the Olympics from July 26 to September 8.
But it's such a coincidence - this time coincides with the peak of France's police holidays in previous years, the Olympics can not be held, and the class cannot be held for an extra day.
A few days ago, athletes from all over the world arrived in Paris, and 150,000 demonstrators raised the banner of "strike" on the streets of Paris.
In the end, under the multi-party strike, Macron had to pay to settle the situation, announcing that he would provide 1,900 euros per person with a special Olympic subsidy, plus 10 additional days off, to barely suppress the chaos.
During its bid for the Games, Paris pledged to provide free public transport to all ticket-holders.
But in 2023, Paris has changed its mind and introduced a special ticket price during the Olympics - the subway ticket has increased from the original 2.1 euros to 4 euros. Not only was it not free, but it was directly doubled, which also angered the locals.
The reason for the price increase was "to balance the budget".
According to reports, the average price of a hotel in Paris has risen from 317 euros to a high of 2,083 euros, a sevenfold increase in price.
Of course, the demolition of the locals is everywhere, and there was a rather hilarious news that a backpack containing the security plan for the Paris Olympics was stolen from a train in Paris.
In this Olympics, you will find this "sense of slackness" of the France:
While creating the most "luxurious" Olympic Games, the Olympic Village is decorated with a minimalist concept; On the one hand, it is trying to make the Olympic Games promote urban infrastructure, and on the other hand, it is also a "blind box" mentality to treat the Olympic site selection; While the government is busy, the people are collectively singing about it.
Paris hosts the Olympics, why is China the one who has exploded?
In fact, in addition to Paris, France, there are more and more countries that are holding the Olympics hard.
At the 2005 Olympic bid, United Kingdom won the hosting rights with a budget of 2.37 billion pounds, and before it had time to rejoice, the budget rose to 9.3 billion pounds two years later, seriously overspending.
The Rio Olympics are even more difficult, making Brazil, which is not rich, even worse, and directly bankrupt.
Only half a year after the end of the Olympic Games, the venue was in a mess because there was no money to maintain and operate.
At the last Japan Olympics, he was scolded and lost money.
According to the Japan media Asahi Shimbun, the loss of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics may reach 50 billion yuan; At that time, the Chinese media also reported that the Tokyo Olympics were almost the most expensive in history.
The Olympics has almost become a hot potato, and the loss makes the organizers doubt their lives:
Doing well can create miracles, and doing it badly is a lingering nightmare for the whole city.
In the 2017 Olympic bidding meeting, 3 of the 5 candidate countries ran directly, leaving only United States and France and finally the Olympic Organizing Committee simply announced: You two will be one of you. Some senior researchers believe that the Olympic Games have a strong stimulating effect on the development of upstream and downstream industrial chains and employment in various industries.
But the most interesting point of this Paris Olympics is that Paris hosted the Olympics, but it was China that exploded.
There are five smart venues such as the French Stadium, the main venue of the Olympic Games, as well as the fan activity area on the banks of the Seine River, where the opening ceremony is located, with a total area of more than 2,600 square meters of LED displays, all of which are Shenzhen Unilumin Technology, the leading enterprise of China's LED enterprises.
Even China's floor tiles have been paved directly into the Paris Olympics.
The 3*3 basketball court is outdoors, while the traditional outdoor sports floor is a hard material, which is not suitable for Olympic games.
A flooring manufacturer in Shijiazhuang understands what iterative upgrading is all too well and has successfully developed a rubber elastic flooring with high slip resistance and safety, and can also achieve 100% recyclability.
The label of the international village has changed from ridicule to reality.
The drone from Longgang, Shenzhen, contracted the atmosphere group of the Paris Olympics.
The UAV formation of the national specialized and new "little giant" enterprise HighGreat Innovation will perform at the Palace of Versailles for a long time until the end of the Paris Olympic Games, and each of its UAVs has achieved independent research and development and independent production.
Even the security gates in Paris are from China.
The Chinese company, which produced more than 1,900 security gates and 200,000 hand-held screening devices for the Rio Olympics, has long been familiar with the road.
The largest contract has to look at Yiwu, Zhejiang.
The official bracelets, cheering jerseys and souvenirs of the Paris Olympics are all produced in Yiwu. 80% of the mascot dolls of the Paris Olympics are outsourced to Chinese manufacturers, which is tiring for Chinese businesses.
The remaining market share is taken by two France toy manufacturers, but the raw materials and components also come from China, and the France manufacturers complete the assembly work in their local factories.
Although the Paris Olympics itself is shabby, it is still possible to find easter eggs on Made in China. Like what:
The sports mats for judo and wrestling are from Taishan Sports in Shandong, China;
The grandstand seats of the stadium are from Shenzhen Leading Sports;
Thousands of sets of lazy sofas come from Tongxiang, Zhejiang;
Sports volleyball from Dongguan, Guangdong....
In fact, from Barcelona in 1992 to Tokyo in 2020, all Olympic Games have been overspended, with an average overspending rate of 95.4%.
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi had the highest overrun rate, and the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing had the lowest overrun rate of just 2%.
How to calculate the economic account of the Olympic Games depends on the consideration of each country.
For France, the Olympic legacy is a "big account" that cannot be measured in numbers: tickets, broadcasting rights, advertising and future tourism and products are still driving the sea.
For China, it undoubtedly makes Chinese companies more valuable:
In the first four months of this year, Zhejiang's sporting goods and equipment exports exceeded 10 billion yuan; Guangdong, which is also a major manufacturing province, has also seen a sharp increase in the number of exports, with Shenzhen alone exporting more than 5.6 billion sporting goods and equipment.
Because the competition outside the arena has already begun.
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