Macron says the City of Light is all set to shine

President Emmanuel Macron said on July 22 that France is ready to host the Paris Olympics as he visited the Athletes' Village four days before the Games begin.

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"We are ready and we will be ready throughout the Games," he said.

"We have been working on these Games for years now and we are at the start of a decisive week which on Friday will see the opening ceremony and then the Olympiad which will be held in Paris, 100 years since the last one."

He added: "This is the fruit of an immense amount of work which has profoundly changed the country, in particular the area" of SeineSaint-Denis where the Athletes' Village is situated.

The message comes a day after Paris Olympics supremo Tony Estanguet expressed a similar sentiment while playing down complaints from some residents and businesses about the impact of the event.

"We are ready as we head into the final phase," he told a press conference in Paris, five days from the opening ceremony on July 26.

"For as long as the closing ceremony hasn't finished, we need to remain vigilant. But today we are exactly where we would have dreamed of being a few years ago."

Finishing touches are being applied to the venues across the City of Light, and thousands of athletes and officials are pouring in, while the weather has brightened up after months of rain.