With more than 200,000 candidates, the organizers of the Paris Games will easily find the 45,000 small volunteer hands they will need in the summer of 2024 for the Olympic and Paralympic meetings.
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Sports fans wishing to help and guide athletes and spectators around the world had until Wednesday evening to register.
At the last score, last week, more than 200,000 had applied, according to the Paris-2024 organizing committee.
The criteria were simple: to be at least 18 years old on January 1, 2024, to speak French or/and English and to be available at least ten days in the summer of 2024. As always, the candidates exceed the necessary needs, namely 30,000 volunteers for the Olympic Games (July 26-August 11, 2024) and 15,000 for the Paralympic Games (August 28-September 8).
A strong contingent, if we compare to the 12,000 volunteers who officiated during the 1998 Football World Cup in France, or the approximately 8,000 at the Albertville Winter Olympics in 1992.
In Seine-Saint-Denis, where elected officials and in particular the PS president of the department Stéphane Troussel, are concerned that the poorest department in France does not miss out on the Olympic meeting, 1,900 inhabitants have been supported, in particular via training to maximize their chances.
The city of Paris, host city of the Games, also needs some 5,000 people, who will be in the streets of the capital in addition to the 45,000 Cojo volunteers.
Reception assignments
The candidates - called to become my "
faces of the Games
", as committee boss Tony Estanguet repeats - will now go through the selection sieve.
They answered some 200 questions, like a personality test (example: "
What I have the least indulgence for: 1. the inability to think or 2. the lack of initiative
" or even "
I prefer 1 . think outside the box to find new solutions or 2. work for an organization that helps make the world a better place
”).
Nearly 60% of the missions assigned to them are dedicated to hosting (public, media, etc.) for the Games where nearly ten million spectators are expected.
For more sporting missions (just over a third), such as raking the sand of the long jump pit or picking up the balls, the sports federations will also propose their candidates, who exceptionally can be at least 16 years old.
Some candidates will already be selected for test events which will take place this summer, but the vast majority of candidates will be chosen by the end of 2023. "
There will be some disappointed
," warned Tony Estanguet.
Uncover false applications
Most of the Olympic and Paralympic events will take place in Paris and Île-de-France, with the exception of sailing (Marseille), shooting (Châteauroux), basketball for the group stages and handball for the finals. (Lille), football and surfing in Tahiti.
It will take about 5,000 volunteers outside Île-de-France.
To govern these “
volunteers
” and guard against any risk of litigation, the organizing committee has drawn up a charter for “
Olympic and Paralympic volunteerism
”.
The Court of Auditors, in a report on the Olympic Games published in January, recommended to be "
particularly vigilant on the application of its provisions and, in particular, on the principles of eligibility, the categories of missions and the respect of the principles of exclusion of some of them
".
Another parameter to be taken into account for the Cojo: flush out any false applications from anti-Olympics activists who have announced, on social networks, their intention to infiltrate the network of volunteers.
The volunteers will be, like the accredited ones, subjected to screening, that is to say to an administrative inquiry.