Paris 2024: Macron and Bach assure preparations are going ‘very well’ | video

Thomas Bachthe president International Olympic Committee (IOC)received this Thursday champs elysees French President, Emmanuel Macron, both agreed that “they are going very well” preparing for Olympic Games 2024 in Paris.

As stated by the IOC, Bach and Macron gave “full support” to the Organizing Committee and its president, the Olympic champion Tony Estangue, who also attended the meeting. The press release added that Paris 2024 will be the Olympic Games. “of a new era, with full consideration reforms of the Olympic Agenda 2020 and the Olympic Agenda 2020+5″.

“Paris 2024 will be JJ.OO. more inclusive, more urban, younger, more sustainable and with the best gender balance in history, with full parity of female and male athletes,” continued the note on the event, which has not yet decided whether athletes with a Russian or Belarusian passport will be allowed.

“The president Bach thanked the President Macron according to a recent statement in G7 summit in Hiroshima, Japanon the autonomy of sports and conditions participation of athletes with a Russian or Belarusian passport, in accordance with relevant IOC recommendations,” the press text reads.

Moreover, they confirmed that decision on the participation of these athletes in the Olympic Games. Paris 2024 will be taken by the IOC at the right timeand that they will continue to cooperate in this sense as well,” the note concluded, alluding to ongoing war in Ukraine after the invasion of the Russian army in February 2022.

On the other hand, the IOC President lamented the “horror” of learning about multiple stab wounds committed this Thursday in the park of the city of Annecy. At least six people were injured, including four children, in the explosion. person of Syrian origin and that he had already been arrested by the police.

“We all learned with horror about the terrible event that took place in Annecy. All my thoughts are with victims about this tragedy and their families,” Bach said immediately after he arrived in Paris to meet with Macron and Estanguet.

(According to information from Europe Press)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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