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Paris 2024: not a minute to lose in preparation

2021-08-08T18:20:03.173Z


The schedule before the next Olympics is accelerating. After the handing over of the Olympic flag, Paris 2024 is entering a new dimension. On the double. Among the first initiatives, the cultural Olympiad will begin during the fall. "The preparation for these Olympic Games gives us a great opportunity to organize events which will be as many occasions to celebrate the vitality of our artistic creation, the richness of our heritage, and more generally


After the handing over of the Olympic flag, Paris 2024 is entering a new dimension.

On the double.

Among the first initiatives, the cultural Olympiad will begin during the fall.

"The preparation for these Olympic Games gives us a great opportunity to organize events which will be as many occasions to celebrate the vitality of our artistic creation, the richness of our heritage, and more generally the links between sport and culture",

declared Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Minister of Culture, during the presentation on July 1 of the model of a work by Marjana Satrapi which will be hand-woven for three years by the craftsmen of the national factories of Gobelins and Beauvais.

To discover

  • The full Olympic program

  • The Olympic medal table

13 million tickets

Then, before the end of 2021, there will be a presentation of the strategy concerning volunteers and that of the selection of stopover cities for the torch relay. In 2022, the mascot will be presented during the fall. In 2023, the program of test events will be unveiled, the torch and medals will be presented and the ticketing will be launched. Thirteen million tickets (around 10 million for the Olympic Games and 3 million for the Paralympics):

“We launched calls for tenders to define the best ticketing solutions, to start auditing, to ask questions about ticketing tools, customer service, access control tools. And this summer or fall we will finalize the selection of these service providers and stabilize our commercial policy at the end of the year ”,

emphasizes Marlène Masure, in charge of the Paris 2024 sales department.

A calendar punctuated each year by the traditional Olympic and Paralympic week (in February) and Olympic Day (June 23).

Michaël Aloisio, the chief of staff of the president of Cojo, indicates:

“The Games have three major advantages: the first, to set the pace, to impose a dead line; it has a very strong mobilizing effect. This calendar thing, we have to have things to say, to do. There is a mobilizing side, it pushes to act. The second element is the unifying aspect: the Games have this capacity to make people work together who would not have done so. And the third point, the spotlight: how the Games allow people to know. People didn't wait for us to do a lot of things. The question is how the Games will allow them to create a positive dynamic, to publicize the projects. This is what the Games can also bring. We are not in the position to say to ourselves: “we have to replace people, we are going to change everything”. However, we have a date, 2024.Time flies. We have a project that goes beyond all classic divisions that should help us to do things together and we have the ability to let people know who can help create positive dynamics. The challenge is to help people do better


together

.

"

Throughout this course, the Olympics will also have to chart their course against the opponents.

At the start of 2024, all the Olympic works should be delivered.

And launch the home stretch leading to July 26, date of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games ...

Source: lefigaro

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