Paris prepares for 100-day countdown to the Olympics. It wants to rekindle love for the Games. Stands are under construction on the Champ-de-Mars with the Eiffel Tower, Monday, April 15, 2024 in Paris. The Champ-de-Mars will host the Beach Volleyball and Blind Football at the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Le Defense business district is... That’s because the swimming club where 10-year-old Lyla Kebbi trains will inherit an Olympic pool. It will be dismantled after the Games and trucked from the Olympic race venue in-area town with less glitter and wealth. There, the pieces will be bolted back together and — voila! — Kebbi and her swim team will have a new Olympic-sized pool to splash around in.
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Concretely, the Games will leave a legacy of new and refurbished sports infrastructure in Seine-Saint-Denis, although critics say the investment still isn’t enough to catch it up with better equipped, more prosperous regions. Seine-Saint-Denis got the new Olympic village that will become housing and offices when the 10,500 Olympians and 4,400 Paralympians have left. It also is home to the Games’ only purpose-built competition venue, an aquatics center for diving, water polo and artistic swimming events. Other competition venues already existed, were previously planned or will be temporary.
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