Paris Olympics Face Tough Hurdles with Two Years to Go

Rising costs: construction work continues on an aquatic arena across the main road from the Stade de France Colin BERTIER AFP/File

As he left the Tokyo Olympics last August, Tony Estanguet, head of the Paris 2024 organizing committee, told AFP he was "prepared to run a marathon at 100-meter speed."

The stopwatch is ticking, and with two years to go before the Games open on July 26, 2024, it has become a 100m with hurdles.