June 22, 2024 • 12 mins
The countdown is on, with the 2024 Paris Olympics set to begin next month.
This will be the first Olympic Games hosted in Paris in 100 years, and the organisers are promising a unique visual experience for viewers.
NZ Chef de Mission Nigel Avery says the committee had to work within a 'complex' environment - but he's confident they'll put on a good show.
"They're going to put on a great show. The overlay is just beautiful, you would have seen the images of the Olympic rings strung beneath the Eiffel Tower."
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
This is the official theme to Paris twenty twenty four.
Why are we playing it well? Because we are just
a little over a month to go to the Olympic Games.
The opening ceremony takes place on July twenty sixth. However,
the first sports sevens and football get underway on the
twenty fourth. Now, some fun facts about this year's Olympics.
(00:34):
It's the first time in one hundred years that Paris
hosted the event. They last hosted in nineteen twenty four.
This Olympics will also be the first time in history
the opening ceremony won't be hosted in a stadium, organizers
opting for a flow tilla of boats down the Seine.
It is all very exciting and to chat about where
things are at and what we can expect in Paris.
(00:55):
New Zealand's Chef de Mission Nigel Avery, is with me now.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Good morning Nigel, Good morning Projesca. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Hey, Look, you have been to Paris a few times
in the lead up. How are preparations going? Is Paris
ready for this event?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Look? I think they will be.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I mean from a facility perspective, they only construct the
two from scratch, so everything else is all put in place,
and the things they did build for the event we're
handed over ahead of time, and so in that respect,
plus the village also handed over to the Organized Committee
on time.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I think they're very much on track, and it's more.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
About now just the finer organizational points to make sure
that everything's styled in and by everything, I mean, that's
an extremely complex environment that the Organized Committee is dealing with,
but we've got high confidence that they'll put on a
good show.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
This sounds like it's going to be a visually stunning
Olympic Games. We've got beach volleyball under the Eiffel Tower,
We've got the equestrian at the Palace of Versailles. It's
going to be beautiful, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Well, that is I mean, Paris is an amazing city anyway,
and the Organizing Committee when we first visited them in
March last year, we're kind of at pains to say, hey, look,
this is going to be a real spectacle for the
spectators on top of the competition side. So they're going
to put on a great show and the overlay and
(02:18):
it's just it's just beautiful. You've would have seen the
images of the Olympic rings strung beneath the Eiffel Tower
and so you know, so you and your general journalist
colleagues is going to be absolutely fizzing with the amazing
content that it's going to be available to show the world.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And then of course this is the first time in
history that the opening ceremony isn't going to be in
a stadium. What does that mean for our athletes, Nigelie,
you're a little bit concerned about putting them on a
barge and sort of sending them all down the river.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, well, look, I think the Organized Committee is extremely
mindful of the health and safety of all participants as
we are, and so I have steps in place to
make sure that you know, there's rescue boats of something
should happen, and there's there's life checkers and all that
sort of stuff. So I think every cant agency they've
(03:07):
kind of looked at. So yeah, I think you know,
we've we've got confidence and their ability to put on
that in a safe way and it's going to be
extremely exciting and as you said, very very novel.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And open to the public, which is fantastic, so you know,
everybody will just be able to line that river and
sort of take part.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, so originally that was going to be peaking on
about six hundred thousand people doing that from from paid
the ticket advantage points and then and free for all.
Then it went down to about three hundred thousand, and now
I believe it's going to be ticketed only, So I'm
not sure that it's it's general admission.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I think look, there's a huge, huge security.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Over a for obvious reasons because it's such a broad
expanse compared to a stadium to protect from a protection standpoint,
so I think the security people just sort of going, hey,
let's just dial this back a little bit and just
make sure security is met because we.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Have actually been told it's really unprecedented security that the
Olympic Games police force is larger than New Zealand's and
top police force.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Is that right, all the Paris police forces three or
four times, you know, And yeah, so look they've thrown
everything by the kitchen sink at it, and you know,
you know, hugely confident in their ability. You know, I
think you know, they're not only that the French side
of all the international organizations are involved. You just imagine it, right,
and so we're confident in that and also in New
(04:33):
Zealand's response to it as well. To make sure that
from a team perspective, you know, we're definitely got liaison
officers embedded in the team, and then all the m
FAT and Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet they're all involved,
the embassies involved, and so just to make sure that
you know, we are all going to be sacked along
with all the traveling New Zealanders, of which is going
to be around two and a half thousand people heading
(04:55):
to Paris for the event.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
And that was going to be my next question, Nigel,
because as much as this sounds like it's going to
be a wonderful visual feast for viewers like myself, for
someone like you who was running a team there where
it's a little bit it's a bit different. It's different
from probably what you did at the Commonwealth Games. It
does feel like you're doing things for the first time.
(05:18):
Is that is it going to put some challenges on
you just making sure everyone is where they need to
be and able to get to when they need to
go and.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, I think it's like any any big events. It's happening,
just it's happening for the first time, you know, for everybody.
And so you know, transportation, as you mentioned in particular,
it's always one to be tested first and one that
there'll be a whole lot of scrutiny over.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
But look, you know, you're right.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
You know, I had an experience in boomingam Conwalth games,
but this will be I guess.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Bigger, more important.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Mw Zeon's not such a big fish in that pond,
you know, where there's lots of other big nations and whatnot.
But I guess fundamentally, you know, we'll keep our process
of the same and focus on what we can control
and get the fundamentals right and then create an environment
for athletes that they can succeed.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Nigel, where are we at with the New Zealand team?
How many have already been named? How big do you
expect the team to be?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yep, so I haven't done exact shut, but well I
think we're about gosh, maybe three quarters named sort of football,
A couple of big teams there men and women are
to go, and then a bunch of other sort of
not quite not very so important sports, but not so
many team members. So I think we're going to land
around the two hundred mark, which is a little bit
shy of both Tokyo and Rio, and then largely because
(06:35):
of the women's hockey.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Unfortunately didn't make it and no means of women's eights
in the rowing.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
So but look, really amazing group of people have been
selected and are about to be named in that team,
and we're extremely fortunate to go away with such an
amazing group of people.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Do we have a metal target yet? Is anyone doing
you know, little tally behind the scenes as to what
we might land?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
So I think hyping form the sport, New Zealand have
got a bit of a tracking syste them, but you know,
we don't really pay too much attention to that because
we want to support every athlete in their endeavor and
we know that we all can't stand on that podium,
but we can certainly help everybody achieve what they want
to achieve, and some will do that and so we'll
be supporting everybody in that process.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You've competed at the Olympics. Does that help you in
your role as the chief mission?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah? Look, I think it does you.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
So I went in knowing that I was you know,
I wasn't going to be standing on the podium.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I was realistic.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I still did my best and all that, and so
I think that's the message I'll be sending, you know,
you know to the team that you are there to
do it as well as they can, but knowing that
realistically they may not get a chance. But also, you know,
I competed in the Commas Games where I was a favorite.
Sol've experienced from that side as well, and being able
to sort of the pressures that that brings in the
(07:59):
number of athletes and teams with that burden, and so
being able to I've seen from both sides is going
to help a little way and be able to chat
and work through things with athletes.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
What is the role actually, Niell just explain it to
us really quickly.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
So I guess, yeah, I'm the athlete champion, so you know,
team culture, I guess I lead the team on paper
and responsible for it in all regards. Yeah, but it's
really about, you know, creating that environment where they can
optimize their their performance. You know, they've done all huge
amounts of hard work leading in Obviously we get them
(08:37):
in a short period you know, before that games and enduring,
and so our job is to sort of I call
it polishing the diamond, you know there in such great shape.
What little piece can we add to that to the performance,
because it only takes a small amount between winning and losing, right,
so we can help get that little one percent?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Then who knows and what is that Nigel? What is
it that you need to do to optimize that performance?
Is it just making sure that the day goes well,
they get to where they need to go, They've got
what they need to get into stadiums and all that
kind of thing. Sort of the logistics, the logistics.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Runs smoothly, that's right. Well, that's that's certainly big part.
And that's you know, that's the fundamentals I talked about.
But I guess that the piece and behind that is
I guess the team culture of monarchy, you know, a
real true sense of belonging and welcoming them, you know
that they really do belong in this environment, making sure
they're happy. Clearly they need to be healthy and all
that as well, and if you can wrap all that
(09:30):
up into one, then they've got the best chance.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Talking about being healthy, Tokyo was our healthiest ever Olympics.
Obviously there were heavy COVID protocols in place. Has sort
of lessons been taken from that to take forward to
this Olympics because we want all the athletes to hit
the start line in good shape.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Look at one hundred percent and those statistics are very
very evidence that you know, those protocols and mandates though
the respiratory wise our least impacted by that illness. And
so you know, we're not making any mandates, but we're
certainly encouraging the product because of your mask wearing hands,
(10:08):
sanitizing and washing and keeping your social distancing and environments,
particularly in tight or exposed environments like you know, public transport, planes, trains, automobiles,
you know, the dining hall unless you're eating. And so
we're really asking athletes to do that for the sake
of their own performance and also of their teammates.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
And some sports are you know, I mean.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Rowing for example, and they've had a mask wearing protocol
and their offices in Cambridge for the last month or
six weeks, you know, because they figured that.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
You know, it's not only at the Games.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
If you if you get COVID, you lose a week
of ls of preparation, and so you know, some sports
are really taking it very very seriously, and we would
like them all to do the same.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Nigel, have you seen the French film Under Paris, which
is screening on Netflix at the moment, about a mutant
man eating shark in.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
The scene I my schedule watch and then I caught
the tail end of it, and what an amazing piece
of cinematography.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Don't watch it. I think it's terribly unfair that they've
put this out when they're expecting the Trithlee. This woman,
this woman. I was laughing at the day, I going,
we have an eighty release this at this look. Finally,
have you found somewhere someone to wear the Goldie suit?
Because I am available to pop over and do that
if you need some help.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Well, Francisca, unfortunately you're going to have to hit the
reserves list because we have found someone and so.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Wonderful Kate from down on the Company Coast, I believe.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
So she won a pretty cool competition to win the
right for that, and she's going to be amazing.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
She's just totally pumped.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I had to chat with her on Friday afternoon and
she's just she's stoked.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Wonderful. Hey Nigel, thank you so much, really appreciate your
time this morning.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Thank you, You're welcome. Thanks Francesca.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
For more from the Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to News Talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
This is the official theme to Paris twenty twenty four.
Why are we playing it well? Because we are just
a little over a month to go to the Olympic Games.
The opening ceremony takes place on July twenty sixth. However,
the first sports sevens and football get underway on the
twenty fourth. Now, some fun facts about this year's Olympics.
(00:34):
It's the first time in one hundred years that Paris
hosted the event. They last hosted in nineteen twenty four.
This Olympics will also be the first time in history
the opening ceremony won't be hosted in a stadium, organizers
opting for a flow tilla of boats down the Seine.
It is all very exciting and to chat about where
things are at and what we can expect in Paris.
(00:55):
New Zealand's Chef de Mission Nigel Avery, is with me now.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Good morning Nigel, Good morning Projesca. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Hey, Look, you have been to Paris a few times
in the lead up. How are preparations going? Is Paris
ready for this event?
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Look? I think they will be.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
I mean from a facility perspective, they only construct the
two from scratch, so everything else is all put in place,
and the things they did build for the event we're
handed over ahead of time, and so in that respect,
plus the village also handed over to the Organized Committee
on time.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I think they're very much on track, and it's more.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
About now just the finer organizational points to make sure
that everything's styled in and by everything, I mean, that's
an extremely complex environment that the Organized Committee is dealing with,
but we've got high confidence that they'll put on a
good show.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
This sounds like it's going to be a visually stunning
Olympic Games. We've got beach volleyball under the Eiffel Tower,
We've got the equestrian at the Palace of Versailles. It's
going to be beautiful, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Well, that is I mean, Paris is an amazing city anyway,
and the Organizing Committee when we first visited them in
March last year, we're kind of at pains to say, hey, look,
this is going to be a real spectacle for the
spectators on top of the competition side. So they're going
to put on a great show and the overlay and
(02:18):
it's just it's just beautiful. You've would have seen the
images of the Olympic rings strung beneath the Eiffel Tower
and so you know, so you and your general journalist
colleagues is going to be absolutely fizzing with the amazing
content that it's going to be available to show the world.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
And then of course this is the first time in
history that the opening ceremony isn't going to be in
a stadium. What does that mean for our athletes, Nigelie,
you're a little bit concerned about putting them on a
barge and sort of sending them all down the river.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Yeah, well, look, I think the Organized Committee is extremely
mindful of the health and safety of all participants as
we are, and so I have steps in place to
make sure that you know, there's rescue boats of something
should happen, and there's there's life checkers and all that
sort of stuff. So I think every cant agency they've
(03:07):
kind of looked at. So yeah, I think you know,
we've we've got confidence and their ability to put on
that in a safe way and it's going to be
extremely exciting and as you said, very very novel.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
And open to the public, which is fantastic, so you know,
everybody will just be able to line that river and
sort of take part.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, so originally that was going to be peaking on
about six hundred thousand people doing that from from paid
the ticket advantage points and then and free for all.
Then it went down to about three hundred thousand, and now
I believe it's going to be ticketed only, So I'm
not sure that it's it's general admission.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I think look, there's a huge, huge security.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Over a for obvious reasons because it's such a broad
expanse compared to a stadium to protect from a protection standpoint,
so I think the security people just sort of going, hey,
let's just dial this back a little bit and just
make sure security is met because we.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Have actually been told it's really unprecedented security that the
Olympic Games police force is larger than New Zealand's and
top police force.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Is that right, all the Paris police forces three or
four times, you know, And yeah, so look they've thrown
everything by the kitchen sink at it, and you know,
you know, hugely confident in their ability. You know, I
think you know, they're not only that the French side
of all the international organizations are involved. You just imagine it, right,
and so we're confident in that and also in New
(04:33):
Zealand's response to it as well. To make sure that
from a team perspective, you know, we're definitely got liaison
officers embedded in the team, and then all the m
FAT and Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet they're all involved,
the embassies involved, and so just to make sure that
you know, we are all going to be sacked along
with all the traveling New Zealanders, of which is going
to be around two and a half thousand people heading
(04:55):
to Paris for the event.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
And that was going to be my next question, Nigel,
because as much as this sounds like it's going to
be a wonderful visual feast for viewers like myself, for
someone like you who was running a team there where
it's a little bit it's a bit different. It's different
from probably what you did at the Commonwealth Games. It
does feel like you're doing things for the first time.
(05:18):
Is that is it going to put some challenges on
you just making sure everyone is where they need to
be and able to get to when they need to
go and.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, I think it's like any any big events. It's happening,
just it's happening for the first time, you know, for everybody.
And so you know, transportation, as you mentioned in particular,
it's always one to be tested first and one that
there'll be a whole lot of scrutiny over.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
But look, you know, you're right.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
You know, I had an experience in boomingam Conwalth games,
but this will be I guess.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Bigger, more important.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Mw Zeon's not such a big fish in that pond,
you know, where there's lots of other big nations and whatnot.
But I guess fundamentally, you know, we'll keep our process
of the same and focus on what we can control
and get the fundamentals right and then create an environment
for athletes that they can succeed.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Nigel, where are we at with the New Zealand team?
How many have already been named? How big do you
expect the team to be?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yep, so I haven't done exact shut, but well I
think we're about gosh, maybe three quarters named sort of football,
A couple of big teams there men and women are
to go, and then a bunch of other sort of
not quite not very so important sports, but not so
many team members. So I think we're going to land
around the two hundred mark, which is a little bit
shy of both Tokyo and Rio, and then largely because
(06:35):
of the women's hockey.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Unfortunately didn't make it and no means of women's eights
in the rowing.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
So but look, really amazing group of people have been
selected and are about to be named in that team,
and we're extremely fortunate to go away with such an
amazing group of people.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Do we have a metal target yet? Is anyone doing
you know, little tally behind the scenes as to what
we might land?
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
So I think hyping form the sport, New Zealand have
got a bit of a tracking syste them, but you know,
we don't really pay too much attention to that because
we want to support every athlete in their endeavor and
we know that we all can't stand on that podium,
but we can certainly help everybody achieve what they want
to achieve, and some will do that and so we'll
be supporting everybody in that process.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You've competed at the Olympics. Does that help you in
your role as the chief mission?
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah? Look, I think it does you.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
So I went in knowing that I was you know,
I wasn't going to be standing on the podium.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I was realistic.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
I still did my best and all that, and so
I think that's the message I'll be sending, you know,
you know to the team that you are there to
do it as well as they can, but knowing that
realistically they may not get a chance. But also, you know,
I competed in the Commas Games where I was a favorite.
Sol've experienced from that side as well, and being able
to sort of the pressures that that brings in the
(07:59):
number of athletes and teams with that burden, and so
being able to I've seen from both sides is going
to help a little way and be able to chat
and work through things with athletes.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
What is the role actually, Niell just explain it to
us really quickly.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
So I guess, yeah, I'm the athlete champion, so you know,
team culture, I guess I lead the team on paper
and responsible for it in all regards. Yeah, but it's
really about, you know, creating that environment where they can
optimize their their performance. You know, they've done all huge
amounts of hard work leading in Obviously we get them
(08:37):
in a short period you know, before that games and enduring,
and so our job is to sort of I call
it polishing the diamond, you know there in such great shape.
What little piece can we add to that to the performance,
because it only takes a small amount between winning and losing, right,
so we can help get that little one percent?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Then who knows and what is that Nigel? What is
it that you need to do to optimize that performance?
Is it just making sure that the day goes well,
they get to where they need to go, They've got
what they need to get into stadiums and all that
kind of thing. Sort of the logistics, the logistics.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Runs smoothly, that's right. Well, that's that's certainly big part.
And that's you know, that's the fundamentals I talked about.
But I guess that the piece and behind that is
I guess the team culture of monarchy, you know, a
real true sense of belonging and welcoming them, you know
that they really do belong in this environment, making sure
they're happy. Clearly they need to be healthy and all
that as well, and if you can wrap all that
(09:30):
up into one, then they've got the best chance.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Talking about being healthy, Tokyo was our healthiest ever Olympics.
Obviously there were heavy COVID protocols in place. Has sort
of lessons been taken from that to take forward to
this Olympics because we want all the athletes to hit
the start line in good shape.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Look at one hundred percent and those statistics are very
very evidence that you know, those protocols and mandates though
the respiratory wise our least impacted by that illness. And
so you know, we're not making any mandates, but we're
certainly encouraging the product because of your mask wearing hands,
(10:08):
sanitizing and washing and keeping your social distancing and environments,
particularly in tight or exposed environments like you know, public transport, planes, trains, automobiles,
you know, the dining hall unless you're eating. And so
we're really asking athletes to do that for the sake
of their own performance and also of their teammates.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
And some sports are you know, I mean.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Rowing for example, and they've had a mask wearing protocol
and their offices in Cambridge for the last month or
six weeks, you know, because they figured that.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
You know, it's not only at the Games.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
If you if you get COVID, you lose a week
of ls of preparation, and so you know, some sports
are really taking it very very seriously, and we would
like them all to do the same.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Nigel, have you seen the French film Under Paris, which
is screening on Netflix at the moment, about a mutant
man eating shark in.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
The scene I my schedule watch and then I caught
the tail end of it, and what an amazing piece
of cinematography.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Don't watch it. I think it's terribly unfair that they've
put this out when they're expecting the Trithlee. This woman,
this woman. I was laughing at the day, I going,
we have an eighty release this at this look. Finally,
have you found somewhere someone to wear the Goldie suit?
Because I am available to pop over and do that
if you need some help.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Well, Francisca, unfortunately you're going to have to hit the
reserves list because we have found someone and so.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Wonderful Kate from down on the Company Coast, I believe.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
So she won a pretty cool competition to win the
right for that, and she's going to be amazing.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
She's just totally pumped.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
I had to chat with her on Friday afternoon and
she's just she's stoked.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Wonderful. Hey Nigel, thank you so much, really appreciate your
time this morning.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Thank you, You're welcome. Thanks Francesca.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
For more from the Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to News Talks it'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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