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Doubts over launch site cloud 100-day countdown to Paris Olympics
Organisers of the Paris Olympic Games began their 100-day countdown on Wednesday amid uncertainty over the site of the Opening Ceremony on 26 July.
Since December 2021, a six-kilometre slice of the River Seine has been the hallowed venue for a sound and light spectacular involving the 11,000 athletes and a flotilla of barges ferrying them along past some of the world's most famous monuments.
Preening over the first opening ceremony to take place outside a main stadium, has been evident from the announcement of the extravaganza
But less than a week after Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin highlighted fears over a terrorist attack at Paris Saint-Germain's Champions League match against Barcelona, President Emmanuel Macron raised the prospect of taking the Opening Ceremony back indoors to the Stade de France.
In a TV interview on Monday, Macron said: "There are plan Bs and plan Cs; we are preparing them in parallel. We will analyse this in real time."
Seine the preferred option
With appropriate decorum, organising committee chief Tony Estanguet said the status symbol outdoor splash was the very probable option.
"The main objective is to achieve a very beautiful, absolutely unique Opening Ceremony, the first time that it will be held outside a stadium, in the centre of Paris on the Seine," said Estanguet, who was attending the lighting of the Olympic flame in Olympia, Greece.
The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, appeared equally malleable.
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