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Olympic Games 2024: how are host cities selected? Why Paris in 2024?

For several years now, Paris has been the city to which all eyes have been turning: and for good reason, this is where the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games will be held. Why choose Paris and not another city?

Paris 2024 Olympics: Canada's Olympic House moves to Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie

In the run-up to the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, we know a little more about the program of foreign delegations and the locations chosen by each of them to best welcome visitors to the capital. The Canadian Olympic Committee has announced that the Canadian Olympic House (COH) at the Paris Games will be located at the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, in the 19th arrondissement.

Olympic Games 2024: the lower quays of the Seine closed to traffic from mid-June onwards

The opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games is going to turn the daily lives of people living in the Paris region upside down. Bridges closed, traffic banned, platforms inaccessible - many areas will be affected, and all this several weeks before the event.

Paris 2024: the list of bridges closed to traffic from early July for the Olympic Games

Crossing from the Left Bank to the Right Bank promises to be complicated during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and especially as the opening ceremony approaches! Discover the bridges closed for the occasion.

Paris 2024 opening ceremony: the number of spectators on the quays of the Seine has finally been reduced

In the end, there won't be 500,000 people on the quays of the Seine for the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The capacity has been revised downwards to almost 200,000 fewer!

Depeche Mode concert as a prelude to the Paris 2024 Olympics: VSA technology put to the test

Paris is about to experience a technological revolution under the banner of alternative rock. Depeche Mode fans gathered at Bercy's Accor Arena this Sunday won't just be thrilling to the sound of their idols. They will also be taking part, often unknowingly, in a first in France: the introduction of algorithmic video surveillance (AVS) in public spaces.

Paris 2024: a computer containing security plans for the Olympics stolen from a train

With the Paris 2024 Olympic Games only a few months away, an incident is disrupting preparations: the theft of a computer and USB sticks containing security plans for the event, i.e. "sensitive information". Reported on Monday February 26 at the Gare du Nord by a Paris municipal employee, the offence prompted an immediate police investigation. To be continued ...

RATP: soon, the Paris metro will no longer stop in the event of passenger discomfort

Paris metros will no longer stop in the event of passenger discomfort, and will be quicker to restart following news of a suspicious package. Following her appearance on the set of BFM Business, Valérie Pécresse announced significant changes in the context of transport in the Paris region, to be fully ready in the run-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The new measures should be in place by next June.

European wheelchair fencing championships in Paris: final swords to qualify for the Paralympic Games!

From March 5 to 10, 2024, Paris will host the European Wheelchair Fencing Championships at the legendary Halle Carpentier! Just five months away from the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, this benchmark competition will bring together 15 nations and over 100 fencers from across the continent, who will attempt to win the various European titles, as well as qualify for the Paralympic Games.

Paris 2024 Olympics: discover France's opponents for the water polo event

We know France's opponents for the water polo events at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games! For both men and women, they will take place from July 27, at the Olympic Aquatic Center and Paris La Défense Arena.

Olympics 2024: how to rent your apartment during the Paris Olympics?

Does your apartment have a room you don't use? Are you going on vacation during the Olympic Games? Now's your chance to take advantage of this particularly busy period to rent out a room, apartment or house in Paris and the Ile-de-France region.

Paris Olympics: Emmanuel Macron abandons plans to remove booksellers from the quays of the Seine

Once under threat, the bookshops on the quays of the Seine should finally be able to keep their place during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games: Emmanuel Macron has said he doesn't want to move them.

Paris 2024 Olympics: transport lines and metro stations to avoid

With the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games just around the corner, many Parisians are worried about public transport ridership. The government has just launched the "anticiperlesjeux.gouv.fr" information website, and you can find out which metro, tramway, RER and Transilien lines will be most affected during the Paris Olympics. Several metro stations will also have to be avoided, while others will be closed to passengers.

Paris 2024: no July 14th military parade on the Champs-Elysées, moved to avenue Foch

A change of program for the July 14 parade in 2024! Due to the Paris Olympic Games, the traditional procession has been moved to a neighboring avenue, and will carry the Olympic flame.

Paris 2024: volunteers will have to "manage" to pay for accommodation and transport

Volunteers for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games won't be the best off during the competition, since although they're totally volunteers, they'll have to "manage" not only to find accommodation, but also to pay for their transport.

Paris 2024: Google Maps censored during the Olympic Games to improve traffic flow?

Transport during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games is definitely causing problems... Île-de-France Mobilités could ask for Google Maps to be censored during the competition, to avoid the shortest routes and keep traffic flowing!

Paris 2024: shopkeepers on the Champ-de-Mars must leave to make way for the Olympics

The Champ-de-Mars' iconic attractions are being forced to leave to make way for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. In fact, they may never return ...

Paris 2024: film and TV shoots in the capital on hold during the Games

For almost two months, the Olympic Games will totally disrupt life in Paris. No concerts, festivals, film shoots or series during the competition!

Paris 2024 Olympics: the Conseil d'Etat accepts the requisition of Crous accommodation

The decision has just come down, this Friday, December 29, 2023: after much debate, the administrative court has finally accepted the requisition of student accommodation from the Crous de Paris.

Paris: towards a VTC strike during the Olympic Games?

Last Thursday, Parisian VTCs carried out a snail operation on the Paris ring road to protest against their ban on using the Olympic lane during the Paris 2024 Games. If the situation remains unchanged, they intend to "block all Olympic events".