A little over three weeks before the opening of the Paris 2024 Games, SOLIDEO closed the loop by holding its twenty-ninth board of directors meeting on Wednesday July 3. The public establishment in charge of carrying out the Olympic works took the opportunity to present its figures. They are good. At the top of the list, the three million hours of integration carried out on the various sites. But also, less expected, a budget ultimately revised downwards. Despite fears linked to the health crisis and then to inflation in the cost of raw materials, SOLIDEO did not exceed its budget envelope. It even stayed below. It explains in a press release that the amount of public funding for the construction of the 3 Olympic structures, including the athletes' village, the media village and the Olympic aquatic center, declined from 017.021 to 70 billion current euros. SOLIDEO was therefore able to return 1,721 million euros to the State and local authorities, a sum of which the majority (1,682 million euros) went to the COJO Paris 39 for the Paralympic Games. Ultimately, the cost of the works strictly necessary for the Games therefore amounts to 33 billion euros.
