After being searched to enter the area, people on the Vieux-Port in Marseille can buy the official Paris 2024 Olympic Games pocket knife https://twitter.com/AlertesInfos/status/1788294632394133917
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Screw that, sell the rifles used in the biathlon.
Wrong season. They do have normal shooting events in the summer games, though. And a pistol shooting component of the "modern" pentathlon.
I read somewhere that they had replaced the pistols in modern pentathlon with laser guns.
Modern pentathlon is one of the few Olympic sports I care about, but I want them to go back to real pistols, darn it!
Let each country use whatever their current military sidearm is.
I am admittedly ignorant of the finer mechanics of competition shooting, but how well does the laser pistol simulate, for example, recoil? It seems like there are important aspects of the shooting part of shooting that would be lost with a laser.
Edit: I'm assuming here that with a pistol shot distance, things like the laser traveling in a straight line vs. the arc of a bullet are negligible, but I could be wrong about that and maybe it's even sillier than I think.
Yea, whatever air pistols they used before at least should have a little recoil. If its a 9mm or standard military sidearm, that would be much more interesting and the recoil would be much much more. Pistol part looks pretty lame anyway. One handed firing with iron sights.
The shotgun clay challenges they no longer send 2 at a time. Hoping they don't laser that next.
Some nutjob might do something bad with one but how many little boys and girls are going to have fond memories for the rest of their lives with this in their top drawer?
We can't bend over for potential harm, just take action when it presents itself and go full on with it.
I support the knife being sold and I support anyone trying to do harm with it being pummelled and then jailed for a long time and getting pummelled in there too.
I think OP may just be pointing out the inconsistency of safety protocols. Or else, noticing that the vendors aren't being very considerate of the 'common sense knife control' campaigns just across the channel.
Very true. I upvoted the OP because this will become an issue that the media focuses on instead of the actual issue of crime in relation to violent migrants in France.
I still think that young people should have memories of their Olympic games to take with them throughout their lives and a knife is a more useful tool than a vacuum flask.
Lots of people die, or are attacked, each year with knives. On occasion it will be an Olympic, or other event, banded knife. People are poisoned all the time too - I'm sure some of them are so by branded flasks.
Punish the criminals instead of the innocent is what the law is all about. It's a shame we seem to have to learn that again.
Is it me or that knife isn't worth 30 euros?
Yeah it looks like it was cobbled together in some third world shithole.
It looks like an Opinel knockoff.
It is, I don't know the specifics but pretty sure the twist lock design was actually designed by Opinel (looked it up Marcel Opinel in 1955) and the company is French. The knock-off company is also based in France not sure where they make their knives but Opinel makes their knives in France the last I checked half a decade ago.
Doesn't make a lick of sense why they wouldn't want to showcase Opinel and sell those with Olympic branding.
Never owned an Opinel, not my style, if I want a sub $10 knife (now sub 20 thanks to Bidenomics) I get a Morakniv. Baffling good knife for the price. Or maybe because knives outside of the chinese tat category in general are overpriced? Don't know don't care.
I have an opined and I use it when doing work in my garden or being with me when my wife wants to go on a picnic so I can slice cheese and bread. I agree about Morakniv, I love them. Can be abused and always handles it like a champ.
I carried an Opinel when I was working IT at a bank. I would use a knife pretty regularly and pulling out a slim Opinel was a lot less "threatening" than pulling an assisted-opening Kershaw or something similar. It's actually a great little knife, through kinda bulky.
Morakniv is also a good cheap knife. I have a couple, one just for kitchen use.
They look like they would fall apart if you actually tried to stab someone with it. Maybe that is why they are allowed.
What about bomb vests? Commemorative vests embroidered with the olympic rings and the name of allah. Perfect for use by the Paris residents to put on a "celebration of peace."