Olympic Games News
First qualifiers for Paris 2024 Games mass-participation marathon announced
As part of the Olympic Day event, which is being held all over France this weekend in partnership with the Festival of Sport, the first 24 numbered bibs for the mass-participation marathon at the Paris 2024 Games were awarded at the end of a 2,024-metre race.
2019 Olympic Day proves a huge success
More than 800,000 people took part in Olympic Day, which was held over the weekend across France and today in Paris, at the Place de la Concorde. Attended by some of French sport’s champion athletes, the event provided a taste of Paris 2024, five years before the world’s greatest sporting celebration comes to the French capital.
Organisation of Paris 2024 Olympic Games unaffected by delay
Today’s announcement by the French government that it is postponing the launch of the Charles de Gaulle Express, connecting Paris to its main airport, will not impact on the successful organisation of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which is founded on a solid transport plan.
The Paris 2024 team embraces DuoDay
As part of the DuoDay initiative, Paris 2024 welcomed 20 people with disabilities into its teams on Thursday for a day of engagement and learning.
Executive Board adopts the Paris 2024 Code of Ethics
Paris 2024 reaffirms its intention to stage an ethical and transparent Games.
Paris 2024 and IOC athletes’ commissions come together
Held outside France on a one-off basis, the meeting gave the Paris 2024 Athletes’ Commission the opportunity to work alongside its IOC counterpart, the very first time that an organising committee’s athletes’ commission has met with that of the IOC.
Economic and employment opportunities open and accessible to everyone
With more than five years to go before the big event, Paris 2024 and the Games’ stakeholders have today launched a plan that is totally innovative in both its approach and scope and which seeks, through the Olympic Games, to create new tender and job opportunities.
Paris 2024 : A revolutionary experience
Paris 2024 is revolutionising the Olympic experience by offering everyone the opportunity, for the first time ever, to be more than just a spectator or a viewer and play an actual part. Paris 2024 is also submitting a proposal to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the inclusion of four new sports that all embody youth, elite performance, spectacular experiences and inclusiveness.
Olympic and Paralympic Week is here!
This week, sport, its values and its benefits will take centre stage in schools, educational establishments and universities across France, as part of Olympic and Paralympic We
Paris 2024’s first Executive Board meeting of 2019
Paris 2024 is the first Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to set up an endowment fund that will help consolidate the impact of the Paris 2024 legacy projects.
COP24: Paris 2024 joins the UNFCCC Sports for Climate Action initiative
At the 24th Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), currently being held in Katowice (Poland), Paris 2024 yesterday announced its intention to join Sports for Climate Action, a UNFCCC initiative that is designed to encourage the sporting world to cut greenhouse gas emissions generated by the events it organises.
Paris 2024 is set to introduce the “Land of the 2024 Games” certification
Six years before the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Tony Estanguet, chairman of Paris 2024, presented the local mobilisation and engagement strategy to the Association of French Mayors (AMF), and set out Paris 2024’s ambition to make the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games the “Games of France”.