Despite its bloated size and cost, the Olympics Games still retain an appeal that no other sporting event can match
Despite its bloated size and cost, the Olympic Games still retain an appeal that no other sporting event can matchThe Irish Olympic Team during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Friday evening , with Shane Lowry and Sarah Lavin holding the Tricolour. When the world’s best athletes gather every four years for the Olympic Games, the same hopes, fears and dreams are carried like a relay baton.
That is a far cry from the last staging of the games in Paris a century ago when just over 3,000 athletes participated and a newly independent Ireland competed in the Olympics for the first time. A team of 48 represented the country in 1924 compared to the 133 men and women who carry Irish aspirations over the next fortnight.
Despite its bloated size and cost, the Olympics still retains an appeal that no other sporting event can match. It is truly global – 184 nations are competing in Paris – and its reach on TV runs into billions. The enormous scale of the games makes it an obvious security threat and the French authorities have already had to deal with, competing across 15 different sports, holds a realistic chance of a record medal haul, surpassing the six picked up in London 2012.
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