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PARIS — It’s golden hour at the Eiffel Tower, crowds are starting to arrive for the evening’s beach volleyball games at the Paris Olympics, and Dan Lowther is ready to sit on the grass and enjoy a cold beer. Except he can’t. Not here, not at any of the other Olympic venues dotted around the center of Paris. They are all dry, a conscious decision by Paris 2024 to only offer soft drinks or nonalcoholic beers for regular ticket-holders. The only place you can score a drink: the VIP lounge.
On this discrepancy between the haves and the have-nots, Paris 2024 said it “is not responsible for the difference in the rules governing the sale of alcohol in the stadium and in hospitality areas.” Private catering services that run the hospitality lounges are able to serve alcohol “as they are governed by a separate law on catering,” it said. “It is not for Paris 2024 to comment on this application of different laws.” It’s not just Americans caught off guard.
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