Après les JO, il reste quoi ? 5 villes olympiques passées au crible

NATURE DOCS. On the one hand, the Olympics are moments of joy for millions of people gathered around a sporting event, including Lucas. But on the other hand, they require giant sports venues, thousands of accommodations for athletes and visitors, and a massive transportation network. Building all of this from scratch is expensive and generates massive pollution… even more so if these infrastructures are subsequently abandoned. While the Olympics increasingly claim to be "green" or "sustainable," we'll see what really happened afterward for five recent editions, which didn't all meet the same fate. So, what became of these mega-infrastructures? What consequences can they have on nature and local communities? Here's what he discovered. ⚠️ Join us every Sunday at 10 a.m. for a new episode of our series "Nature Docs":    • Lucas explique   📰 Main sources: – Study on the sustainability of the Olympic Games and ranking, 2021 ➔ https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00... – Analysis of the future of several Olympic venues after the Games, 2018 ➔ https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%2... – Study on the urban impacts of the Olympic Games (and World Cups), 2018 ➔ https://doi.org/10.1177/0193723518771830 – Study on the positive and negative impacts of mega sporting events, 2022 ➔ https://doi.org/10.3390/su142013581 – Times article on the workers killed in Beijing, 2008 ➔ https://www.thetimes.com/article/chin... – Commitments of the Paris Olympic Games ➔ https://olympics.com/fr/paris-2024/nos- // engagements https://www.csportsorbonne.com/note5 – Collective of associations denouncing the evictions at the Paris Olympics ➔ https://lereversdelamedaille.fr/ – Two independent estimates Carbon footprint report of the Paris Olympics ➔ https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-cont... // https://www.theshifters.org/publicati... 🔔 To make sure you don't miss any Brut videos, subscribe and turn on notifications:    / @brutfr   00:00 Introduction 01:34 Athens, 2004 03:49 Beijing, 2008 06:00 London, 2012 08:05 Sochi, 2014 10:28 Rio de Janeiro, 2016 12:53 Towards more sustainable Games? 16:06 Conclusion