‘No Plan B’ for Paris Opening Ceremony After Knife Attack: Sports Minister

‘No Plan B’ for Paris Opening Ceremony After Knife Attack: Sports Minister
Olympic rings to celebrate the IOC official announcement that Paris won the 2024 Olympic bid are seen in front of the Eiffel Tower at the Trocadero square in Paris on Sept. 14, 2017. Christian Hartmann/Reuters
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There is no “plan B” for the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games, the French sports minister said on Monday, after a man armed with a knife and hammer killed a German tourist and left two people wounded near the Eiffel Tower on Saturday.

“We have no plan B, we have a plan in which there are several sub-plans with a certain number of adjustment variables,” Amelie Oudea-Castera told France Inter radio.