The Paris Olympics were filled with cheering after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Tokyo Games to be held without spectators. Published on By The ended with a rousing and gala show centered on song. Still fresh in our memory is how, at every venue, spectators sang the French national anthem "La Marseillaise" in unison.
Tony Estanguet is president of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. In his closing remarks, he announced with pride, "The Paris Olympics broke many world records." Among the categories he enumerated were the number of and the volume of cheering.
Above all, we are happy about the return of the as they were meant to be. The Paris Olympics were filled with cheering after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the to be held without spectators. Daily, the atmosphere of celebration bubbled up at the competition venues.
Moreover, the celebratory atmosphere continued at Champions Park where medalists interacted with local citizens at the base of the Eiffel Tower the day after each Olympic event's medal ceremony. Estanguet had already alluded to how the Olympics ideally should be conducted. First, he readily admitted: "The Olympics will not solve all problems.
Also, discrimination and conflict in the world will not disappear." Nonetheless, he added, while the Games are in progress we can all seek these ideals in their "beautiful form." His remarks amounted to a refutation of the short-sighted argument that the Olympics are useless.
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