Paris 2024 Olympic Games: why it took the French swordsmen 1 hour 40 minutes to reach the Grand Palais for their training ?

Mésaventure pour Romain Cannone et les Bleus. MAXPPP – Samuel COULON

French swordsmen, including Olympic champion Romain Cannone, took 1 hour 40 minutes on Thursday to reach the Grand Palais from the Olympic village, the site of the Olympic fencing events two days later, said a source close to the Olympic Games. #39;team.

Romain Cannone, Yannick Borel, Luidgi Midelton and Paul Allègre reconnoitred the place before entering competition on Sunday and must return there on Friday.

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The tricolor shooters, from the athletes' village located on the northern edge of Paris, in Seine-Saint-Denis, quickly reached, in around forty minutes, the Place de l'Etoile and the Arc de Triomphe, before getting stuck on avenue Marceau.

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A QR code checkpoint allowing access to the area stopped dozens of vehicles in front of them. The women's epee events begin at 10 a.m. Saturday morning and the men's saber events even begin at 9 a.m. Monday.