Unveiling the Aquatics Centre at the beginning of April, Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, heaped paeans upon the teams that had worked on the 170 million-euro building to ready it in time for the Olympics. Equally crucial, he insisted, the future.
That Olympic legacy unfurls a swimming pool into a deprived region where surveys have shown that only around 40 percent of the under-11s know how to swim. National and international competitions will also be staged at the venue just a sleek footbridge away from the Stade de France.
