The Legacy and Sustainability plan for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games — 74 • ENCOURAGING PEOPLE NOT INVOLVED IN SPORT TO TAKE IT UP Sports participation among people with departments and training leaders and disabilities instructors in regular clubs to accommodate Sport is important for social inclusion, and lead people with disabilities. happiness and health, but it can be difficult According to a 2019 study commissioned for many people with disabilities to access. by Paris 2024 on the barriers to and instruments Paris 2024 wants to help break these down of sports participation among people with these barriers by helping create parasports 19 disabilities : % 38 OF MEMBERS struggled to practise at a club. Of them: % % % 34 26 22 mentioned the difficulty said they worried said that there was of finding a club about other people’s not enough information adapted for their attitudes to their about the services disability disability available ONLY rd % % 1/3 47,2 50,5 OF STAFF OF SPORTS CLUBS OF MEMBERS in clubs associated with ASSOCIATED WITH GENERALIST say their main priority is having specialised sports federations SPORTS FEDERATIONS staff that have received had taken disability-related do not have any staff that have training regarding the various training taken disability-related training types of disability 19. Study on the barriers to and instruments of sports participation among people with disabilities conducted in 2019 by the Observatory for Research on Mega-Events and commissioned by Paris 2024.