Macron said after the International Olympic Committee vote in Lima that rubber-stamped the historic double award of the 2024 Games to Paris and the 2028 Olympics to Los Angeles that “the whole country must get behind” the event.
“I salute this success and the tremendous opportunity that the Games represent to assist in the transformation of our country, to increase its international attractiveness… and strengthen the role of sport across France,” the president said, speaking after visiting hurricane-hit Caribbean islands.
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who was in Peru for the vote, tweeted: “Historic. A hundred years after 1924 we are bringing the Games back to Paris.”
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Challenges ahead
One of the organisers' biggest challenges will be to keep within budget — a challenge that has defeated so many of their predecessors.
The French capital has set a relatively modest budget of 6.6 billion euros ($7.9 billion) for the Olympics, but London in 2012, Athens in 2004 and Sydney in 2000 all saw their budgets for hosting the Summer Olympics at least double from the time of their bids to the final bill.