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Fuck these BS click-bait titles that are really just designed to enrage.

The article explains it, that stadiums are prohibited from serving alcohol by French law, and an exemption isn't really possible in the Olympics case (because there are so many events) without a change in the law.

Drinking at catered events or indoors isn't covered by the stadium law, so drinking is allowed there.

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Nevertheless, the headline is 100% accurate. Perhaps the problem here is that the catered event rule shouldn't apply when the venue is inside a stadium.

Are the VIP boxes in the stadia 'catered events'?

European aristocrats won't let technicalities curtail their entertainment. If needed, the laws/regulations will be changed, but there's no way there's going to be any enforcement of discrepancies anyways.

What's somewhat more surprising is that they're not calling the whole of the olympics "catered" to earn a bit more revenue from alcohol sales. However, this should push visitors towards local establishments, which might be great for the lower rungs of the economy vs. giving that business to whoever wins a unified contract for the Olympics.

Super weird comment.

> European aristocrats

I think you will find the French rather famously did away with their aristocracy.

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