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Gavin Cooney reports from Place de la Concorde, Paris WITH A FEW hours off this afternoon, I decided to head into the Place de la Concorde to check in on the IOC’s efforts to Save the Olympic Games.
And so this is why Place de la Concorde, the site of Marie-Antoniette’s beheading, has been renamed Urban Park. Let’s hope the IOC’s attempts to appeal to the masses are a bit more successful. The pit in front of me looked like a giant skatepark, through which riders carved and swung on 12kg bikes, pulling off tricks as they soared into the air. Riders had one minute to rip through their routines: what they did was entirely up to them. Those routines are scored by a panel of judges, with the maximum possible score 100. The nine riders with the best average score across two rounds would progress to tomorrow’s final.
Emphasis on the past tense. Such is the heady experience of the Olympic Games: it takes roughly about half an hour of watching any event featuring a bit of commentary to feel confident in opining on it. It took around that long for me to turn to the journalist next to me and lament that Argentina’s Jose Torres wasn’t using the awesome height of his jumps to pull more tricks, unlike the far more economical Marcus Christopher.
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