Paris 2024: Back to the Mediterranean

For the Paris 2024 Olympics, the Surfing events will be held 8000 miles away at the legendary surfing spot Teahupo’o in Tahiti. While not quite half way around the world, it’s pretty far, but that how it goes for a sport that relies on nature as its playing field.

Sailing is another sport that is rarely near the hub of Olympic events, and in 2024 the venue is 400 miles to the south in Marseille. It is a return to the Mediterranean Sea, and while Athens 2000 was held on an embayment of the Med, it hasn’t been since Barcelona 1992 when Sailing was held in the heart of this body of water.

In the scope of Olympic competitions, a sailing venue is not a complex facility, but that doesn’t stop the dollars from adding up with the project’s estimated total cost to be $46.5 million…

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