"France has shown itself to the world in a very, very good mood: confident, united, warm, welcoming," the head of the Paris 2024 organising committee, Tony Estanguet, told reporters on the penultimate day of the Games. He has repeatedly expressed his "pride" in organising what he promised would be an emblematic Olympic Games.

This edition of the Olympic Games in the European country has seen record ticket sales and fan zones have been packed out all over the country. "It is an absolutely incredible collective success. France has made this Games a success, and I am very proud," said Estanguet.

He added that "we have seen a happy France, happy French people, and that should not be underestimated in terms of the legacy of these Games". In this way, the head of the organising committee closes this edition of the Olympic Games with a smile and prepares to start the Paralympic Games.

This year's Paralympic Games will start on 28 August, and they are aware that the end of the Olympic Games and the summer holidays will bring a change of atmosphere. "We will be in a different period, the return to work, the restart of political life," he said. "We will have to adapt to it.

That is because the state of French politics was at a delicate moment just before the arrival of the Olympics. French President Emmanuel Macron had called for a "political truce" during the Olympics following inconclusive parliamentary elections he called the day before. "It has been largely respected, but the country has been without a permanent government since July and the country's discordant political parties remain sharply divided," the organiser said.