How France's Grand-Est is preparing for the Paris 2024 Olympics

Host to national sporting delegations, a region awarded the label of «Organizing Committee», a race for private security guards and public opinion polls: how is the Grand-Est region taking on part of the preparations for the upcoming Paris 2024 Summer Olympics? "Between economic spin-offs and performance objectives for our athletes, the stakes are manifold," explains François Werner, the region's vice-president in charge of Sport and Youth.

That Saturday morning, the sky was threatening with drizzle. The clouds were unfathomably dark. But in the Grand-Est, the large French administrative region that borders Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland, people were looking forward to a little fresh air.

The successive waves of heatwaves that swept across the country from west to east this summer have left the Hexagone's inhabitants with a feeling of q