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About Alan Abrahamson
Alan Abrahamson is an award-winning sportswriter, best-selling author and in-demand television analyst. In 2010, he launched his own website, 3 Wire Sports, described in James Patterson and Mark Sullivan's 2012 best-selling novel Private Games as "the world's best source of information about the [Olympic] Games and the culture that surrounds them." Read full bio.
In December, after a man with a knife and hammer killed a German tourist near the Eiffel Tower, the French sports minister, Amélie Oudéa-Castréa told France Inter radio, looking ahead to the opening ceremony for the Paris 2024 Summer Games, that there was no Plan B.
Of course, there was.
On Monday, the president of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, said there was in fact not only a Plan B but a Plan C: Plan B would be “limited to the Trocadero,” across from the Eiffel, Plan C, “even moved to the Stade de France,” a traditional stadium-style event.
Let’s save face and get to Plan C. Now.