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Compelling perspective on how the Paris 2024 Olympics embody the power of cultural transformation. France's journey from a 1960s sporting crisis to becoming a global sports powerhouse teaches us invaluable lessons about embedding lasting change. Just as France reshaped its national identity through sport, businesses can draw inspiration from this evolution. It reminds us that meaningful cultural change requires vision, persistence, and a commitment to long-term goals. For leaders and managers, embracing these principles can drive profound and enduring transformation within organizations, proving that resilience and strategic focus are key to achieving lasting impact.

Later this week, my home country of France will host an estimated 15 million visitors and millions more viewers of the Olympics (July 26 - August 11) and Paralympics (August 28 - September 8). This will be France's sixth occasion hosting the Olympics and I will be proudly present in Paris to admire the tennis players smashing yellow balls. 🎾 Whether you admire the Games for their athleticism or national pride, they deliver a spectacular experience. People generally perceive winning the bid to host the Olympics as an honor. However, there is growing concern about the negative financial, environmental, and social impacts. The Olympics is a complex catalyst for urban redevelopment. Read more in my recent blog post here: https://lnkd.in/e8jr4pbD In both sports and city management, defense is often the best offense. Enhance your city-wide data for better, faster, and more defensible decisions. Contact City Detect today: https://lnkd.in/epE-Xkvp #Paris2024 #ParisOlympics #Olympics #Paralympics2024 #Blight #UrbanCleanUp #AIforGood #CityDetect #BlightDetection

We are excited to attend the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Experiencing this event firsthand surpasses any desktop research or conversations in understanding the scale, complexity, and opportunities it presents for Cape Town and the Western Cape. For meetings, sponsorships, or collaborations, please reach out: hello@capetown2040.com “Paris and the Île-de-France region have aligned the Olympic Games with their long-term development plans, a strategy Paris 2024 will showcase. Initiatives, like cleaning the River Seine, constructing venues using timber, and using iconic sites to promote youth-focused urban sports, offer valuable lessons. Additionally, the use of towns outside the host city and maximising the use of existing venues provides a blueprint for Cape Town and the Western Cape. These efforts, in line with the IOC's Agenda 2020, highlight new opportunities for our region to fully explore in the next decade.” Paris 2024 - Comité d'organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de 2024

Watching closing ceremonies from Slovenia house! I was all decked out in orange for the Dutch House event..only to show up after dinner and it was...closed! Oops, probably should have checked when it was closing on the last day even with Sunday tickets! Either way, closing ceremonies was a great recap. Great spectacles, and also great message. So much was summed up by IOC President Thomas Bach: "Thank you for making us believe in a better world for everyone. We know that the Olympic Games cannot create peace. But the Olympic Games can create a culture of peace that inspires the world. This is why I call on everyone who shares this Olympic spirit: let us live this culture of peace every single day." That's exactly what I was thinking - THIS is how we can come together. Not just celebrating the triumphs and victories but coming out to support the entire ecosystem that makes those victories happen - everyone plays a part, and we can choose different - to support, to engage, to promote, and to show up fully at our best on a daily basis, in our back-to-normal life. Thank you Paris, you did exactly that. ❤️ I come out of this week inspired, tired, hopeful, and excited for how I, and anyone else who chooses, can show up and do our part in supporting our planet that is sorely needs all of us to show up resourced and purposeful so we can co-create what is so needed in an era of unrest. YES...that is my vision for how the Olympics is the platform that can engage people in a way that can bring people together more than anything else to remember what humanity is capable of. We can all PAUSE, and intentionally shift our behavior so that we are more aligned so in whatever way, your world (and the world as a whole as a result) is more sustainable, resourced, peaceful, and supportive. That is the intention behind this 2 week Olympic pause. 🙌🏼 And ...see you in LA28! I wouldn't miss it. #paris2024 #closingceremony #powerofpause #leadershipdevelopment #executiveleaders #olympics #parisolympics #marathon

These are your answers to our recent Olympic Games #poll 📊 In our latest LinkedIn poll, we asked whether you believe the Paris 2024 Olympics can significantly reduce its carbon footprint compared to previous games. According to your responses, only 10% of respondents believe it will have a significant impact. 🇫🇷♻️ Majority said that it would only have somewhat of an impact (47%). We also observed that a significant portion of our respondents were skeptical about the Paris 2024 Olympics achieving a substantial reduction in its carbon footprint compared to previous games, with 27% seeing little impact and 17% seeing no impact at all. The Paris 2024 Organising Committee, aims to make it the greenest Olympics ever, aiming to half the carbon footprint of London 2012 and Rio 2016. 💨 London 2012's footprint was 3.3 million tonnes, while Rio 2016's was 3.6 million tonnes. Thank you for participating in our poll! If you missed this round, don't worry—we'll be doing these regularly so you can continue to share and compare your votes. 🙌 #Paris2024 #Olympics #OlympicGames #RoadToPari#SustainableOlympics #GreenGames #Sustainability #CircularEconomy #Europe

Major sporting events are merging one into another in the Global north, providing ongoing challenges to #urban #sustainability. After the final of the Euro 2024 football championship and the finals weekend at Wimbledon, the end of July 2024 will herald the launch of the Olympics in Paris. One research into 16 past events found that their sustainability score had deteriorated over time. Indeed the winners of the gold, silver and bronze medals (and the other ones to score well above 50) were quite dated: Salt Lake City (2202), Albertville (1992) and Barcelona (1992), respectively. Looking ahead, in an idealised world cities should be made to compete to show which can deliver the most sustainable Olympics, thus earning a genuine gold. At the moment, Olympic events win pewter, rather than gold medals for sustainability. https://wix.to/NeO17v3

👀 One of the events that I'm excitedly waiting for in #Paris2024 is breaking, for sure. Whenever I told people that breakdance is included in the Olympics, they were surprised, so I wanted to check what else is new in the Olympics. However, not only breaking but also some other sporting disciplines are new or returned to Paris 2024, aiming to attract a young audience and fresh energy. For the IMAGO Blog, I wrote about the six new and returning sports at this summer's Olympics, compiled using our high-quality images from current events. You can check it out via the link: https://lnkd.in/erAHXWUD 🏅 What's your most anticipated sport in Paris 2024? #weareIMAGO

https://lnkd.in/gVZuF8Xv The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad and officially branded as Paris 2024, is an upcoming international multi-sport event scheduled to take place from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in France, with some competitions starting on 24 July. How many sports are in the Summer Olympics 2024? 32 different sports A estimate of 10,500 athletes are expected to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics — and for the first time ever, the split will be 50% men and 50% women. Those 10,500 athletes will compete in 32 different sports and 339 events this summer

Can Paris Break the Olympic Jinx? While the true costs and revenues of the Olympics are often murky, and the Games tend to be more about geopolitics and branding, Paris is set to make history with one of the most budget-friendly Olympics in modern times. Their chief architect? Existing infrastructure. An impressive 95% of the venues planned for the Paris Olympics were already in place before the city won its bid, according to S&P Global Ratings. But the Olympics are no stranger to cost overruns. A 2020 study by Oxford economist Bent Flyvbjerg revealed that every Olympics since 1960 has exceeded its budget, with an average overrun of 172% – a record for any type of megaproject. #olympics #parisolympics #paris2024 #sports #india

My Thoughts for Today Will the Paris Olympics be green enough? Paris has set goals to reduce the carbon emissions from the 2024 Olympics by more than half compared to previous Games, from an average of 3.6 million tons to 1.5 million tons. Keep in mind though that the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 were in the midst of the pandemic with almost no participants. The summer Olympics are the biggest sporting event on the planet, and from July 26 to August 11, around 11,200 athletes are expected in Paris, with almost 10 million visitors travelling to 329 locations for various events. No doubt major sporting events have an incomparable power. They trigger unbelievable euphoria as nations celebrate, unite and the world appears to stand still for a short while. The Paris Olympics want to prove their sustainability more than ever before. The ambitions are there, as is the pressure. But what will actually remain in the end and are we looking a little too much through green glasses? I guess only time will tell. #ccpn #sustainability #innovation #economy