Two years after the Opening Ceremony, the IOC says Paris 2024 is now furniture. This paper's Wednesday ledger split the river from the habit. Thursday the same split holds. [1]

The Seine is open for public swimming after a century-long ban. Sport is written into the French school day. Seine-Saint-Denis has housing, transport, and an aquatics center meant to become a neighborhood pool. Thirty-six fish species have been recorded against two in 1984. [1]

The IOC says eight in ten French people now report exercising weekly. A year earlier the Sports Ministry posted 17.2 million licenses in 2024, up 3.8 percent. [1][2]

Le Monde's one-year audit said the grand "legacy law" had been abandoned. Christophe Dubi of the IOC cites 95 percent of venues existing or temporary and an independent study projecting €6.7 billion to €11.1 billion for Île-de-France by 2034. [1][3] Those numbers do not settle whether a teenager in Saint-Denis kept the club card. Pierre Rabadan said the river cleanup gained Paris twenty years. [1] Believe the river. Interrogate the habit.

A sports nation is a Thursday club night, not a July memory. The statute that was supposed to lock the habit is still the missing piece. Believe the river. Interrogate the habit. Two years is furniture only if the teenager kept the card.

-- AMARA OKONKWO, Lagos