Olympic games - activities

Aux Jeux Streamers: a sporting competition between content creators at Paris La Défense Arena

This time, no eSport at Paris La Défense Arena, but a real-life sporting competition, which will bring together 32 streamers and content creators around the Olympic Games, with numerous events on the program, on April 27, 2024!

Olympic Games, mirror of society: free exhibition at the Shoah Memorial - our photos

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are just around the corner, and many museums are creating exhibitions on the subject, depending on their theme! The Paris branch of the Shoah Memorial is evoking the values and prejudices around sport, in a free exhibition, from March 29, 2024.

Paris 2024: Olympic cruises to discover the transformations of the region for the Games

In March, April and May, embark on unprecedented cruises, on the various Parisian canals, to discover from the water, the future Olympic venues and the many facilities built to welcome the whole world to our capital, from July 2024.

The 4 Cardinales du Sport: stained glass sculptures on the Canal Saint Martin for the Games

Until November 25, 2024, discover "Les 4 Cardinales du Sport", a series of stained glass sculptures, exhibited on the Belvédère Claude-Gérard Marcus, overlooking the Canal Saint Martin, during the Paris Olympic Games!

Take part in the Grande Dictée des Jeux during the Paris Book Festival

Become a spelling athlete at the Grande Dictée des Jeux, on April 12, 2024! Compose on the Champ-de-Mars, facing the Eiffel Tower, in the heart of the Paris Book Festival!

Beauty and Gesture: six sculptures celebrating Olympism in front of the French National Assembly

From April 2 and for the duration of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, six sculptures will be inviting themselves onto the steps of the Palais Bourbon, imagined by artist Laurent Perbos, to represent Olympism. This outdoor installation is free to discover!

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: a free Olympic Games orienteering race in the Bois de Vincennes

It's off to an Olympic-themed orienteering race on April 19 and 20, 2024, in the Bois de Vincennes, following in the footsteps of the 1924 edition, 100 years before the one that awaits us this summer!

Easter 2024: La Maison du Chocolat celebrates the Olympic spirit

This year, for Easter 2024, La Maison du Chocolat's Chef Chocolatier, Nicolas Cloiseau, unveils his sublime Easter collection in honor of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

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.

Our hopes for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games: fencing with Pauline Ranvier - video

Discover our interview with Pauline Ranvier, fencer and Olympic athlete, who is hoping to qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and bring home a medal in this discipline!

Paris 2024: history and origins of the Olympic Games, from Antiquity to the present day

As Paris hosts the Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games from July 26 to September 8, 2024, do you know the history and origins of the famous Olympics? We tell you.

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!

Olympics 2024: tug-of-war, motorboating...These sports that have disappeared from the Olympic program

From the first modern Olympic Games, held in Athens in 1896, to the next edition, in the French capital in 2024, the world's greatest sporting competition has come a long way, evolved, changed... And so has the Olympic program, with new disciplines appearing and others no longer included in the Games program.

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.

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.

Asterix at the Olympic Games: family sports events in shopping malls

Asterix has also taken part in the Olympic Games! And the irreducible Gaul intends to involve you in the same events, with a host of activities for the whole family in shopping centers across the Paris region!

Beach volleyball: where can you learn and practice this ball sport in Paris and the Ile-de-France region?

Does beach volleyball in Paris and the Ile-de-France sound strange? Well, it's possible (but not necessarily all year round)! Whether you're a beginner or an experienced player, clubs affiliated to the French Beach Volleyball Federation offer training sessions, free games and tournaments in emblematic locations. Immerse yourself in the world of this sport and its history, and discover the best places to start or perfect your game in Paris and the Paris region!

Kelvin Kiptum, world marathon champion, dies aged 24

On October 8, 2023, he dazzled the world by breaking the world marathon record at the legendary Chicago event. On Sunday February 11, 2024, Kelvin Kiptum died tragically, aged just 24.