Paris 2024 Olympic Village: A welcome makeover of Seine-Saint-Denis

France - With the Paris 2024 Olympic Games a year away, construction for the Village that will host some 14,000 athletes is in full swing in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, which is the poorest in mainland France.

SOLIDEO, the public institution in charge of construction for the Olympics, is promising that the Olympic Village will leave a long-lasting legacy in the working-class area, where 25 percent of reside