 Minister Gérald Darmanin tells newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche the main threats facing the Games are espionage and extremist and cyber attacks. Of the nearly 100,000 people who applied to work the Games, he says many Russian and Belarusian applicants were rejected for jobs as physical therapists or technical staff. Other candidates were rejected due to suspicious far-right or far-left leanings and suspected Islamic radicalization.