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As Paris Olympics Promise New Ambition, Old Anxieties Intensify

Trying not to gloat, organizers of the 2024 Summer Games begin showing off the spectacle of the city while concerns about security and strikes mount.

The Seine will host the opening ceremony of the 2024 Games in Paris with thousands of athletes on a flotilla of boats.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times

PARIS — The message has been hardly subtle: The grandeur of the Games is coming back.

Organizers of the 2024 Paris Summer Games this week loaded journalists from around the world on buses for a first peek at the progress of Olympics sites, part of the long run-up to the Games, still 20 months away.