Published on November 6 by Hugo Sport editions and prefaced by Cojo president Tony Estanguet, Paris 2024: the official book of the Olympic Games draws up in 320 pages and more than 400 photos the results of the 33e Olympiad of the modern era.
Problem: this imposing work, published under the official license, focuses only on the Olympic fortnight and ignores the Paralympic Games.
“A huge failure”
An incomprehensible choice, given the popular enthusiasm that they have aroused. “It’s a huge failure,” said wheelchair tennis champion Stéphane Houdet this Thursday on franceinfo. The publishing house cites publication deadlines as too short, with the authors of the book having had to deliver their production in mid-August, just a few days after the end of the Olympics.
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Estanguet kicks into touch
“It was the licensee who had complete control over this book. The organizing committee did not take care of it at all,” responded Tony Estanguet, questioned on the sidelines of the plenary assembly of the Occitanie region.
