2023-12-01 12:02:07
Please note: this article was published in September 2017, after Paris had officially won the Games. Some data may be obsolete (dates, budget, sites). For up-to-date information, we invite you to consult our section dedicated to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Since this Wednesday evening, Paris is officially the host city of the 2024 Olympic Games. Unsurprisingly designated by the IOC after the postponement of Los Angeles to the 2028 edition, the capital must now get down to preparing for the event in seven years.
When will the Games take place?
The 2024 Summer Olympics, the thirty-third in history, will take place from August 2 to 18. This does not mean that all the tests will be held during this period. The women’s and men’s football competitions will begin on July 24.
What will happen between now and then?
Several meetings are already scheduled: the Olympic and Paralympic flags will arrive in Paris during the third quarter of 2020, after the Tokyo Olympic Games. The mascots will be presented a year later, while the recruitment of volunteers will begin in the first months of 2022. Ticket sales will begin in 2023.
What will be the budget for the Olympics?
For the moment, the announced bill is 6.6 billion euros. 1.5 billion will be paid by public spending, including 1 billion borne by the State. Critics of the Parisian bid denounce this calculation and highlight the chronic inability of the organizers to keep their budget. Paris 2024 tells them that most of the infrastructure already exists or will be temporary, which will limit the risks of soaring costs.
What sports will we be able to watch?
The French project includes the 28 disciplines on the program for the Rio Olympic Games. The great classics will be on the program: fencing, athletics, swimming, judo, gymnastics, etc. But other sports have already announced their candidacy to appear on the Olympic program, such as pétanque or billiards.
How many sites are ready?
Most of them. Of the 36 sites announced by the organizing committee, 26 already exist. Eight will be temporary installations, such as for beach volleyball at the Champ de Mars. Only two have yet to be built: a second room next to Bercy and a swimming pool in Saint-Denis, near the Stade de France.
Will everything happen in Paris?
The vast majority of competition sites are located in the capital or in the Paris region. Some events are still planned in the provinces: the sailing events will be played in Marseille, while the women’s and men’s football matches will be played in nine cities: Paris (the Parc des Princes will be the stadium where the finals will be played), Bordeaux , Lille, Nice, Toulouse, Nantes, Marseille, Lyon and Saint-Etienne.
How much will tickets cost?
Tickets will go on sale in the third quarter of 2023, and some pricing information is already available. The floor price for the Olympic Games is 15 euros (10 euros for the Paralympics). The organizing committee also promised that 50% of tickets would cost less than 50 euros, 72% less than 20 euros for the Paralympic Games. In total, more than 13 million tickets will be on sale, including 9.7 million for the Olympics alone.
How to become a volunteer?
Paris plans between 45,000 and 70,000 volunteers. To be part of it, you will have to wait until the first quarter of 2022, when recruitment begins. Two only conditions: be over 18 and speak at least two languages. If volunteers flock from all over the world, you have your chances: in Rio in 2016, 80% of them were Brazilian.
And where will the Olympic flame go?
Only one certainty: it will be lit in Olympia and will end its journey at the Stade de France, where the opening ceremony will take place. The IOC does not impose any stage points, and the duration of the flame’s journey from Greece can vary between four and two months. As for the last torchbearer, responsible for lighting the cauldron and starting the fortnight, he is kept secret until the last moment.
What does this represent in the history of sport?
Paris is now part of a very exclusive club. With the organization of the 2024 Olympic Games, the capital is one of only three cities to have hosted three Olympic Games. London (1908, 1948 and 2012) and Los Angeles (1932, 1984, 2028) complete the trio.
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