4 02 MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT PARIS 2 One hundred years after the Summer Games Paris 1924, the Games are back in France, and we have huge ambition for Paris 2024. Our aim is to share this unique celebration with the largest number of people possible, and to offer a new event model, one that is open to all and in tune with people’s aspirations, especially those of the younger generations. Paris 2024 will be a spectacular celebration that takes sport out of the stadiums and into new and unexpected places: to the foot of the Eiffel Tower and on the Champ de Mars, inside the Grand Palais, in front of the Invalides, on the Place de la Concorde, in the park of the Château de Versailles. Even the Opening Ceremony, taking place in the very heart of the city, on the Seine, will attract over 600,000 spectators.. They will also be interactive Games – the first in Olympic history to include mass participation events alongside programmes to open the Games up to all the communities, sports stakeholders and citizens who aspire to be part of this once-in-a-lifetime journey. They will be responsible Games, with maximum use of existing infrastructure ensuring we only build facilities that the local population really needs. And they will be useful Games, which mobilise political, 100 years after the economic, community and cultural decision-makers, as Summer Games Paris well as the sports movement, to put more sport into 1924, the Games are back people’s daily lives. in France, and we have As the spotlight has now turned towards 2024, everything huge ambition for Paris is in place to bring our ambition to life. Already, we have 2024. Our aim is to share 27 worldwide and national partners by our side; more than this unique celebration 20,000 businesses registered to tender for Games with the largest number contracts; more than 2,300 local communities engaged in of people possible, and to promoting sport and the Olympic and Paralympic values; almost 300,000 members signed up to the Paris 2024 Club offer a new event model. and every part of the French sports movement engaged. TONY ESTANGUET, All of France is getting ready to welcome the world in 2024. S PRESIDENT OF PARIS 2024 E M A TONY ESTANGUET N G E P PRESIDENT OF PARIS 2024 4 O 2 0 S 2 I R A P 2