Protests add new headache to Macron for 2024 Olympics in Paris

“The Olympic Games are Macron’s pride and joy,” one protester said. “So it’s a way of stinging him.”

PARIS, France — Retired and with time to kill, Bernard Gauvain wants to be a volunteer at the 2024 Olympics — but a bad one.

His intention is not to help out, but to gum up the Olympic machine by refusing to turn up for work. If others do likewise in sufficient numbers, he hopes they’ll sting the VVIP who stands to gain if the Paris Games run triumphantly like clockwork: French President Emmanuel Macron.

The 68-year-old former agricultural consultant in southern France is part of an otherwise

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