Les Jeux de Paris 2024, une cause sans adversaires ?

Abstract

Sports mega-events such as the Olympic and Paralympic Games are increasingly being contested because of their financial, social and environmental impact. However, the French capital, which is due to host the next edition of the Games, seems to have escaped these challenges, which, even if they do exist, hardly seem likely to break the "Olympic consensus". Based on a corpus of articles from the national press and interviews with actors involved in the organization of Paris 2024, this article proposes to highlight not only the media framework that is conducive to maintaining this consensus, but also the mobilization work that underpins it, carried out by different categories of social, political and administrative agents with converging interests who have embraced the same desire to enchant the Games. Faced with these networks of circumstance, the oppositions appear on the contrary too dispersed and fragmented.

Keywords

• France
• sport
• Paris
• politics
• Olympic games
• mobilizations