"You too play the Games" ... With this slogan at the head of the poster, Tony Estanguet, the boss of the organizing committee officially launched this Tuesday, the Club Paris 2024. His main mission? “Bringing the adventure of the Olympic Games to as many people as possible”, thanks to numerous activities, meetings and information. All of this allows the French to “move, vibrate and engage” around this Olympic project. "We organize the Games every 100 years in Paris, so we really want the French to experience them fully, and not just during the very short competition period and in front of their TV," says the president of Cojo.
Eight challenges by September
Four years before the opening ceremony, scheduled for July 26, 2024, enthusiasts are invited to join this club to find out everything about the Games, but not only… After a simple registration on the Paris2024.org site, it is thus for them proposed challenges against great champions. Eight are scheduled by September in Paris and in the regions. And eighty people will be selected this week to challenge Tony Parker in basketball 3 against 3, from Sunday in Paris (in an undisclosed place to avoid too massive a presence in the context of the coronavirus). In particular, a 200 m against Florent Manadou (him alone, his rivals in relay, August 6), table tennis matches against Simon Gauzy, long jump with Marie-Amélie Le Fur and Arnaud Assoumani, judo with Clarisse will follow. Agbegnenou ...
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Martin Fourcade, president of the athletes' commission and young biathlon retiree, will wait for winter to challenge members of the club. “The Games are an adventure and for us athletes it is not just 15 days but 4 years. And the emotion of sport is much stronger when we share it with our supporters, ”he explains, motivated, in a video conference. Other big names are expected such as Kevin Mayer or Renaud Lavillenie.
"We had the authorization of the IOC for some members"
Tony EstanguetCalled on to connect their sports applications and demonstrate their passion and commitment to these Games, the members of this Club Paris 2024 will be able to collect points and win rewards (in particular thanks to gold tickets slipped into the newsletters) which will allow to some of them to participate in the general public marathon of the Games (a great first), to be selected as volunteers, to go behind the scenes of the Games and even to carry the Olympic flame. "It's not nothing," confides Tony Estanguet. It is a time usually inaccessible. And we want to offer it to those who deserve it the most. We had the IOC's authorization for some members. "
YOU ALSO MAKE THE GAMES
CARRY the Olympic and Paralympic flame
WIN your bib for the general public marathon of the Games
CHALLENGE the greatest champions
SHARE your ideas to promote the sport
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If privileged access to the sale of tickets, launched in 2023, is not current, the Cojo confirms with this Club Paris 2024 its desire to mobilize the whole of France, all the territories and to embark all the layers of the population (even if those under 15, who can register, are not legally entitled to participate in digital games). And to leave a real legacy by pushing the French to play sports. This club should enable them to be real “players in the Games”. And thus ensure the popularity of the Parisian meeting, which according to Tony Estanguet, is doing well. The former three-time Olympic champion presented the results of a survey carried out in early July indicating that "84% of French people are in favor of the organization of the Paris 2024 Games and 92% among those under 35". Results "considered very encouraging and stable compared to last year".
And four years from the opening ceremony, despite the Covid-19 crisis, Tony Estanguet does not want to change course. “Despite the health crisis, we do not want to reduce our ambition. We always want to organize open, spectacular and sustainable Games, which have meaning and which engage an entire country in the adventure. "
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