The Legacy and Sustainability plan for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games — 92 SPORT TO IMPROVE INCLUSION AND SOLIDARITY SPORT – A FANTASTIC VECTOR FOR INCLUSION As an outlet for engagement, social interaction in the Legacy and Sustainability strategy: and personal fulfilment, sport is widely recognised 1. sports activities that make people’s talents as an effective tool for social integration. Sports shine through: leveraging sport to identify can therefore be educational resources in their and celebrate interpersonal skills and own right. knowledge that can be mobilised for access The ‘Sports-Towns-Inclusion’ interministerial to training and employment; circular, signed on 19 April 2019, marked a new milestone in recognising sport as a tool for social 2. sports activities that champion values: inclusion, as it mentioned that city contracts leveraging sport to share messages promoting must now include a section on sports action civic values such as social cohesion and the for social and territorial inclusion24. This circular prevention and treatment of excesses (including clarifies the role of stakeholders that harness racism, anti-Semitism and homophobia); sport for social inclusion in order to go beyond 3. sports activities that act as regional ‘common law’ sport and serve other issues projects: leveraging sport to mobilise young related to city policy. people through integration and/or citizenship Three main types of community sports activities, within – and with stakeholders from – different as defined in the circular, will be highlighted bodies (including schools and companies). STRENGTHENING, HIGHLIGHTING AND PROMOTING THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF SPORT Paris 2024’s Legacy and Sustainability strategy • integrating people experiencing exclusion seeks to strengthen the role of sport as a tool for: or a lack of security, including refugees • social inclusion • empowering girls • remobilising people in difficulty, including • the professional integration of unemployed early school leavers people 24. CIRCULAR No. DS/DIR/2019/108 of 19 April 2019 on the integration of sport into city contracts