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2024 Olympics in Paris: what if the shot left Seine-Saint-Denis?

2022-01-20T16:07:26.547Z


Seine-Saint-Denis was to be the flagship department of the 2024 Olympic Games, with the construction of the Olympic village, an aq center


After volleyball, badminton, sports swimming and the water polo final, the sports shooting events could, in turn, leave Seine-Saint-Denis.

Since the candidacy phase, Paris 2024 had planned to organize them on the land of Les Essences, the former military site located within the Parc Départemental Georges-Valbon.

According to information from France Bleu Berry, the organizing committee intends, however, to relocate the competition to Châteauroux, to the national sports shooting center.

At Paris 2024, we hasten to reply that "nothing has been done", while explaining that "in-depth studies are underway on the ground of Essences"... A polluted ground... more than Paris 2024 "had imagined. ". As a result, the organizing committee is now wondering if the site can be ready in 2024, hence the idea of ​​looking elsewhere. A few months ago, a project was launched by the French shooting federation in Saint-Witz, in the neighboring Val-d'Oise. A project challenged by the Cojo which at the time absolutely wanted to maintain the site of 93, a department widely put forward in the application phase and which, little by little, finds itself undressed (even if it has recovered rugby to VII and climbing, two events which are however not the most prominent during the Olympic Games).

Change of tone now, where the shot at Châteauroux becomes more than a hypothesis.

"Whatever happens, even if it was not used for the Olympic Games, the land at Les Essences will be cleaned up, it's a commitment we made in return for the construction of the Media Village (Editor's note: not far from there, to Dugny-Le Bourget)”, we insist at Paris 2024. The same promise had been made (then abandoned) during the application phase for the former Total site in Saint-Denis or the organizing committee had imagined, for a time, building the swimming pool. 

If we thought the map of sites was definitively drawn up a year ago, here it is on the verge of moving again.

Because if the shooting poses technical concerns, the international basketball federation has still not given its approval for the preliminary round in hall 6 of the exhibition center in Paris.

Source: leparis

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