Olympics: Organizers Build Buzz Around Opening Ceremony, But Local Businesses Lament That Crowds Have Yet to Appear in Paris
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variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent Landing the Summer Olympics was supposed to be a shot in the arm for France’s economy.
But in the Tuileries Gardens on a recent July day, instead of preparing to welcome throngs of tourists, one café owner was busy bemoaning his rotten luck.
Here he was, midway between the Louvre and the Champs-Élysées, one of the city’s best locations, looking out at a sea of empty tables.
The crowds had yet to appear, and those sports fans who had touched down in the City of Light had been greeted with pedestrian restrictions and security barriers that essentially left his business cut off.
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