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France’s Olympic Gamble

For the latest project of the Global Reporting Program (GRP), students travelled to Paris ahead of the 2024 Summer Games to investigate some of the impacts of hosting the Olympics. The result of that work is a 25-minute documentary for Al Jazeera’s People & Power.

The GRP is a graduate-level course at UBC that brings students together to produce ambitious global reporting projects. Learn more about the GRP.

People holding up painted cutouts of the Olympic Rings in front of Sacré Cœur church.
PARIS, FRANCE — Members of the group, “Le Revers de la Médaille,” hold up hand-made Olympic rings on December 15, 2023. Photo: Bhagyashree Chatterjee/Global Reporting Program.

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