The curtain is slowly coming down on the Paris Olympics, the closing ceremony is scheduled for tonight and it is not expected to be as specific as the opening on the Seine. For the simple reason that it will be held in only one place - the "France" stadium in Saint-Denis.
Impressions can slowly be gathered, and everyone's general opinion is that Paris did not offer anything new, nor did it meet expectations - the athletes certainly did, each country will look at it from its own point of view, but as for the organization - it was not at the level of the most massive competitions.
Paris has everything, it is the City of light and love, but for the past twenty days there was no glamor in it that many wanted to see and believed to be felt at every step - and this is confirmed by those who were part of the Games in London in 2012, and Tokyo in 2021. And Japan did not fail even though it had to fight against the coronavirus and measures that the world could not even imagine before that.
It seems that the main problem (because it's hard to say whether it was a mistake or bad judgment by the local authorities) was that they moved the events so far away that the average sports and Games fan, provided he had tickets, wasn't easy to come by in the first place. until the last day of the competition, he could hardly watch more than two events a day. Montenegrin journalists could not often do it either, it was physically impossible considering that since July 25, when they arrived in Paris, they spent between three and five hours a day in the metro.
But, this is Paris - so the Olympic Games were watched from Le Bourget, through Saint Denis, Bercy, Nanterre, to Colombo, Le Chapelle, Villepante...
Europe waited to organize the Games after 12 years (after London), but it seems that it was not ready for that - it will not have the next chance before 2036, because it is already known that the next host is Los Angeles, and that the Games will be held in 2032 in Brisbane.
Recently, the media announced that Germany will submit a candidacy for the organization of the 2040 OI, and it is believed that it has a good starting position to host the competition, which is in 16 years. It looks like he won't have an overly difficult task to surpass Paris.
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