Olympic athletes able to rent AC units as heatwave hits France - video Dailymotion

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00:00Good morning everyone, welcome for this press conference.

00:08We believe we found a balance for the village between our long-term responsibility to create

00:17a model sustainable neighbourhood that will last after the Games, with all those innovations

00:24brought by the Solideo, this delivery agency for the village, with a lot of innovative

00:30construction methods, insulating facades and floor cooling.

00:36And on the other side, our responsibility, our short-term responsibility, to give to

00:41high-performance athletes the best condition in order to perform.

00:45And that's the reason why we've offered them the opportunity to rent a temporary AC.

00:51On our side, we will always promote the most sustainable solution, but it was important

00:57for us to provide them solutions.

01:00Any athlete that is tested positively has to wear a mask, and we regularly remind athletes

01:07and all other Games stakeholders, the good practice they need to adopt in case they have

01:15any symptoms, but not much.

01:20And regarding the monitoring, the answer remains the same, it's still quite low in France.

01:29If we don't get young people playing sport, then we won't be here for very much longer.

01:34So clearly, we have to attract young audiences, we have to go where they are as well, by the

01:40way, which is why you have Games wide open, why you have sport in the streets, why you

01:44have a Marathon Portus, you have everyone, 40,000 people I think it is, going to be able

01:49to take part on the same course as the marathon runners.

01:53We have to attract young people to sport, if we don't, we're dead, basically.

01:58And our job is to spread the joy and the benefits of sport.

02:03We regularly meet NOC representatives, and I know the NOC team are in contact listening

02:08to people's complaints.

02:10The broader point, I would say two things, there are, depending on who you listen to,

02:1520 to 30 wars going on in the world at the moment.

02:18If we listen to all of the complaints of all of the teams, no one would be here, or we'd

02:26probably have 100 National Olympic Committees who actually took part in the opening ceremony.

02:30Our job, not the job of politicians, politicians can bring peace, our job is to try to unite

02:36sports men and women to come here and to compete and show, at least to create a culture

02:43of peace and show how the world could be, potentially.

02:47But we're not over-claiming, but that's our job, our job is a sports job, the political

02:52stuff we leave to the politicians, thank the Lord.

02:56Thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to strongly condemn the cyber-bullying that

03:02our ceremony artistic team have been subjected to.

03:07We stand by them, and we are giving them our full support.

03:12Regarding the reactions over the recent days in the media, on social media, I think it's

03:19also the opportunity to clarify again this matter.

03:23Thomas Joly had the opportunity to clearly and repeatedly say that his inspiration with

03:31this sequence was mythological.

03:37You may have seen it on the media guide, it's called Festivity, it depicts a pagan feast

03:46which is featuring the gods of Olympus, and which explains the presence of Dionysus, which

03:52is the god of wine and feast, which is the man painted in blue.

03:58Sadly or not sadly, it's not our responsibility, because Caz is obviously independent from

04:02the IOC, it's a legal body that looks into appeals, it's in front of an appeal by two

04:09sides.

04:10We hope, we wanted it to be expedited as quickly as possible, we didn't want to be in this

04:13position either, and yes we hope that the bronze can be allocated when it is, but it's

04:20a matter for the Court of Arbitration in Sport and not for the IOC I'm afraid.

04:25We all unfortunately don't like the slow movement of justice, but justice is better

04:31done properly than not at all.

Olympic athletes able to rent AC units as heatwave hits France

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