Oh, to be back in the heady days of 2017, when Paris won its bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics.
It was in Lima, Peru, and there was Anne Hidalgo, Paris’s mayor, cheering hand in hand with Tony Estanguet, the thrice-medaled canoe champion from the Athletes’ Commission of the I.O.C., today the president of the Paris Games. Hidalgo made big predictions then, like how there would be solar captors on the streets and as yet uninvented high-tech athletic gear to turn the Games into energy producers.
