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Saint Denis – 24 June 2024
1. Wide exterior of Stade de France
2. Wide interior of Stade de France
3. Wide of athlete doing high jump
4. Wide of athlete doing triple jump
5. Wide of athlete throwing javelin
6. Tracking right of athletes running 100 meters
7. Mid of young French sprinter Raphalledy Guillaume and Paris 2024 Athletics and Para Athletics Manager and former athlete Alain Blondel walking on track
8. SOUNDBITE (French) Raphalledy Guillaume, young French sprinter:
"Honestly, the track looks great. I felt like I was flying, even though I got off to a bad start in my series. I still managed to keep going and make up more than ten seconds. Unfortunately, I couldn’t beat my PR (personal record), but it’s still a great experience running here. The track allows us to take off.”
9. Mid of clock
10. Wide of stadium
11. Wide of athlete doing pole vault
12. Mid of screen reading (English) “Welcome to the games of XXXIII Olympiad“
13. SOUNDBITE (French) Raphalledy Guillaume, young French sprinter:
“Since I received the email. All I do is think about it, even at night I dream about it. I tell myself that I’m going to race here before everyone else, before all the superstars, and maybe one day I’ll become one again. For the moment, I’m just a cadet. I’m going to continue my efforts and one day potentially take part in the Olympic Games.”
14. Wide of shot putter
15. Wide of shot putter judges
16. Wide of track
17. Setup of Alain Blondel, Paris 2024 Athletics and Para Athletics Manager and former athlete
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Alain Blondel, Paris 2024 Athletics and Para Athletics Manager and former athlete:
"It’s not a test event. That’s an operational test big difference with, this event that’s what public where something much bigger, one month ahead of the Olympic Games. It will have made sense or whoever operational test for a stadium a track that we received only one months ago that we get used to work with. And it’s really important for us to understand how it works technically, with all the differences that we all the changes that we made on in the stadium, on the track, we can work with that if it works exactly under percent like we were thinking on. And it’s that’s why it’s really operational without public, without TV feed to have something that we really focus on the operation."
19. Tracking right of 100-meter race
20. Tracking right of athlete doing high jump
21. Wide of athlete doing triple jump
22. Tilt up of stadium interior
23. Various of remote-controlled javelin car
24. Pan right of stadium interior
STORYLINE:
An operational athletics test was held Tuesday at the Stade de France, just a few weeks before the start of the Olympic Games in Paris.
Young athletes from France and abroad gathered to test the facilities for the various athletics events that will take place at the stadium.
For the first time, the nine running tracks at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are purple, something never seen before in Olympic history.
"The track looks great. I felt like I was flying,” said young French sprinter Raphalledy Guillaume.
Work began in early January and was completed at the end of May. The stadium will be ready to host the first athletics event on 2 August.
Alain Blondel, Paris 2024 Athletics and Para Athletics Manager and former athlete said “it’s really important for us to understand how it works technically, with all the differences that we all the changes that we made on in the stadium, on the track.”
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