The Olympic project is almost unthinkable in its audacity, and a major security headache, but then the Eiffel Tower would never have risen above Paris in 1889 if the many naysayers had prevailed.
These Games, at a cost of about $4.75 billion, were conceived to be transformative in a lasting, environmentally conscious way. We wanted a dash of revolution, something the French would look back at with pride, Tony Estanguet, the head of the Paris Olympics committee, told me.
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