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The Paris Organising Committee for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games (COJOP2024) (French: Comité d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de Paris 2024) is the organising committee for the 2024 Summer Olympics and the 2024 Summer Paralympics which were held in Paris, France. Tony Estanguet serves as president of the committee.
The Société de livraison des ouvrages olympiques ("Olympic Works Delivery Company") (Solidéo) co-financed the creation of a cycling infrastructure for use during the Games and afterwards, including the Dugny footbridge at Le Bourget , [70] the Franc-Moisin footbridge at Saint-Denis , [71] and the Olympic Village footbridge (the only one ...
The 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics cauldron (French: Chaudron des Jeux olympiques et paralympiques d'été de 2024) was made for the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Paris. It was located at the Tuileries Garden.
Long before the Paralympic Games, American gymnast George Eyser, who had a wooden leg, competed at the 1904 Summer Olympics, and won three gold medals, two silver and a bronze, including a gold in the vault, an event which then included a jump over a long horse without aid of a springboard.
The French Olympic Committee commissioned Mathieu Lehanneur (born 1974), [4] [5] to design the cauldron, torch, and ceremonial cauldrons along the torch relay route: Lehanneur developed a concept of having these three items symbolise France's national motto, "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" ("Liberty, equality, fraternity"), and gold, silver, and bronze medals respectively. [6]
The 2024 Summer Paralympics (French: Jeux paralympiques d'été de 2024), also known as the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games (French: Jeux paralympiques d'été de Paris 2024), and branded as Paris 2024, were the 17th Summer Paralympic Games, an international multi-sport parasports event governed by the International Paralympic Committee.
The closing ceremony of the 2024 Summer Paralympics took place at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, France, on 8 September 2024.. The ceremony featured cultural presentations from both the current (France) and following (United States) host countries, as well as closing remarks by International Paralympic Committee president Andrew Parsons and the COJOP2024 President Tony Estanguet; the ...
The 2024 Summer Olympics (French: Les Jeux Olympiques d'été de 2024), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (French: Jeux de la XXXIIIe olympiade de l'ère moderne) and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in France, with several events started from 24 July.