Seine cleanup a "missed opportunity" says author of book on the negative impacts of Paris Olympics

The Olympic Games should be reformed to enable more democratic input from the communities they affect the most, argues Parisian journalist Jade Lindgaard in this Olympic Impact interview.

"With the games, there's never enough time," said Lindgaard, author of Paris 2024: A City in the Face of Olympic Violence.

"Every four years, a giant event is organised in a different city, with conditions largely set by an external institution – the International Olympic Committee," explained the...