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This article offers a study of the Olympic law of Paris 2024, particularly of the 2018 and 2023 statutes, through the lens of the notion of Olympic legacy. It questions the place attributed to law in this work of “transformation” and “progress.” It provides an opportunity to reflect both on the perceived role of the law and on the problem of linking legal, political and social times. Drawing on pre-existing work in legal theory and legal sociology, it highlights three distinct temporalities in the transformative modalities of Olympic laws—derogation, experimentation and permanent modification. It shows both the display of a mastery of legal, political and even social times by the legislator, and the risk of a loss of control by the legislator over legal time in an untenable pursuit of political and social time.