4 2 0 S 2 PRACTICAL INFO I R A ÉLANCOURT HILL P LOCATION Élancourt Hill in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines OLYMPIC GAMES 31 KM from the Olympic and Paralympic is located between Élancourt and Trappes, Village, Élancourt, Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines 7 km away from the track cycling venue CYCLING and Trappes (78) Vélodrome National. Reaching 231 m, the summit is the highest point in Discipline: mountain bike GETTING THERE the Greater Paris region and offers clear views of the 2 events: 1 / 1 • Transilien train lines N and U Eiffel Tower, La Défense business district and the • RER line C forests around Paris. The site on which the artificial Cross-country / hill stands was once home to sandstone quarries NEARBY GAMES VENUES that supplied materials to entrepreneurs. After the • Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome quarries shut in the mid-1900s, it was used as a • Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines BMX Stadium landfill site until 1975. In the 1980s, an ambitious • Golf National rehabilitation programme transformed the hill • Château de Versailles into a park the general public could use for leisure purposes. CAPACITY All the work required to stage the Olympic mountain bike events and deliver their legacy has 15,000 been designed to minimise the impact on local 2,700 seated and 12,300 standing biodiversity. No major infrastructure is due to be built – 95% of the Olympic routes designed by South NEARBY TOURIST ATTRACTION African expert Nick Floros are based on existing • Château de Versailles T trails. The variety of legacy trails means there will E be something for absolutely everybody, including E H young children, families and seasoned athletes. In POST-2024 LEGACY A S T concrete terms, choosing Élancourt Hill as a venue The Games will provide an opportunity to A S : D will help strengthen and structure existing sports promote the use of Élancourt Hill for leisure E participation and enhance the site’s environmental purposes. Accessible to all, the hill will provide U N E status. The project will leave a threefold (sporting, a safe, clean location for mountain bikers of C V social and environmental) legacy for Saint-Quentin- all abilities, walkers and runners to use and I P en-Yvelines, which will become a cycling hotspot families to go for a stroll within regenerated M Y L where people not involved in sport can access an surroundings. The transformed site will also offer A R ideal conditions in which to hold national and A important legacy and local biodiversity is enhanced D P and celebrated. international mountain bike competitions. N C A I P M Y L O women men mixed 21