Macron Inaugurates Paris Olympic Village

Five months before the Paris Olympic Games, Emmanuel Macron will inaugurate the Olympic village in Saint-Denis, the pharaonic epicenter of these Olympics which will welcome nearly 14,500 athletes with their staff, and whose keys will be given to the organizers.

The deadline for the Olympic Games in Paris is gradually approaching. That stage makes the arrival of this global event in five months in France even more concrete.

Emmanuel Macron, whose last visit was more than two years ago in October 2021, at a time when the village, which was emerging from the ground, was only a huge construction site, will be able to see the immensity of the work accomplished.

He will be able to appreciate the success of this titanic project, built in seven years, which brings together nearly 82 buildings, 3,000 apartments and 7,200 rooms on a site which extends over 52 hectares between Saint-Denis, the island of Saint-Denis, Denis and Saint-Ouen.

Because apart from a delay of "a few weeks" according to the president of Solideo Nicolas Ferrand for the buildings located on Saint-Denis Island, the schedule planned for delivery was held.

But the work is not quite finished to be able to welcome the 206 Olympic delegations, and the organizers will have their work cut out for them for the next five months between now and the start of these Olympics.

Because the apartments delivered are bare, and they must now be equipped, furniture installed, and service centers set up for athletes.

“This represents more than 345,000 pieces in total which will be transported. Duvets, bedside tables, beds, there will be 14,250, 8,200 fans and 5,535 sofas”, details Laurent Michaud, director of the Olympic and Paralympic villages at Paris 2024.

During the Olympics, the village will indeed function as a classic but ephemeral city.