#SportyPeachy #FrancePeachy #ParisPeachy @Paris2024 The party and the sport continue with the Paralympic Games
16 days to go until the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games
Just one day after the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 is inviting the whole world to the Paralympic Games. On 28 August, the opening ceremony on the Place de la Concorde will kick off the festivities, followed by eleven days of competition for 4,400 athletes from around the world. On the programme: elite-level competition in 22 Paralympic sports, with 549 events taking place across 19 exceptional competition venues that have already contributed to the magic of the Olympic Games.
At the Paralympic Games, the public will rediscover all those things that made the Olympic Games magical. The same iconic competition venues, intense competition for medals, the same pair of mascots, celebration sites all over France where people can experience the Paralympic Games together. All of this with the extra soul and meaning of the Paralympic Games and a whole new level of excitement.
The party is far from over, and Paris 2024 is inviting the public to extend the celebration by getting on board with the exciting sporting performances of the world's best para athletes.
In shortParis 2024 is launching "Game Is Not Over", a new campaign to encourage the public to come and support the athletes at the Paralympic Games.
1.4 million tickets sold for the Paralympic Games, including 400,000 sold during the Olympic Games.
Six sports, the Paris Centre Discovery Pass and many finals are now sold-out.
"Game Is Not Over", the new campaign for the Paralympic Games
From Monday 12 August, Paris 2024 is launching its new campaign for the Paralympic Games: "Game Is Not Over". More Games, more sports, more records, more emotions. The athletes are ready for the Paralympic Games, and they're counting on the presence of all their supporters in the stadiums to lead them to victory.
The campaign, featuring French Paralympic athletes Nantenin Keita (Para athletics), Louis Hardouin (wheelchair basketball), Bopha Kong (Para taekwondo) and Marie Patouillet (Para cycling), will be rolled out across a wide range of channels (digital, poster, television and press) until 8 September.
Great opportunities on Tickets.paris2024.org to be part of history
Buoyed by the success of the Olympic Games, ticket sales for the Paralympic Games have been booming since the Games began and are continuing to increase.
Nearly 1.4 million tickets have been sold, including 400,000 since the start of the Olympic Games, but there are still plenty of opportunities to take part in this historic event for our country.
As of Monday 12 August, 75,000 tickets are still on sale at €15 and almost 300,000 at €25, particularly for the finals. Opportunities are still available for the emblematic sports of the Paralympic Games: Para athletics at the Stade de France, wheelchair tennis at Roland-Garros, Para swimming at Paris La Défense Arena, wheelchair basketball at Bercy Aréna... not forgetting the Closing Ceremony, the grand finale of the Paris 2024 Games, with tickets starting at €120.
The Paralympic Games will be the last chance to experience the magic of the Paris 2024 Games. The last chance to cheer on the athletes, watch exceptional sporting performances and celebrate the medallists, all together.
Sports and sessions already sold-out
Certain popular sports are now sold out: wheelchair fencing (Grand Palais), para taekwondo (Grand Palais), para cycling (Vélodrome national de St Quentin en Yvelines), Para equestrian (Château de Versailles), Para triathlon (Pont Alexandre III), Shooting para sport (Châteauroux National Shooting Centre). This is also the case for Paris Centre Discovery Pass and certain finals such as the wheelchair rugby final at the Champ de Mars Arena, the wheelchair basketball finals at the Bercy Arena and the blind football semi-finals and final at the Eiffel Tower Stadium.
As was the case for the Olympic Games, Paris 2024 is inviting spectators to keep checking the official ticketing site: new tickets may be made available every day, right up to the start time of each session.
Tony Estanguet, President of Paris 2024 said: "After a fortnight of absolutely crazy sporting emotions and moments of pure happiness that will go down in the history of the Games, the last thing we want to do today is say goodbye. And we're in luck, because in a fortnight's time the Games will be back, with 4,500 athletes in the starting blocks, ready to compete with the same crazy energy and in the same unique and sublime competition venues! The Olympic Games were the opening leg, and we're about to experience the return leg. See you on 28 August at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, for the biggest kick of our lives!"
Andrew Parsons, President of the International Paralympic Committee said: "After an extremely successful Olympic Games, I am more convinced than ever that Paris 2024 will host the most spectacular Paralympic Games in history. The party is continuing and people should get ready for the most surprising and impressive sporting event they will ever witness. Twelve days of top-class sport that will change France forever, changing the way people see themselves and each other. It's an unmissable occasion. To Parisians returning home from their summer holidays, envious that they missed the Olympic Games, my message is this: come and watch the Paralympic Games, I promise you a life-changing experience, an event you'll probably never see again in your city in your lifetime."
Marie-Amélie Le Fur, President of the French Paralympic and Sports Committee said: "The Olympic Games Paris 2024 are a total success and will certainly go down in history. For 15 days, time was suspended and the Olympic spirit spread throughout the world. Full stadiums, patriotic fans, athletes performing at their best, celebration sites on fire... it has been historic! But the Games are not over yet, and all the ingredients are there to prolong the magic. The same competition venues, the same Club France, the same support to ensure our 237 French athletes perform at the highest level... Everything has been thought of to ensure that the party goes on, so that our Paralympic athletes can shine, dream and inspire. I would also like to thank the Paris 2024 Organising Committee and all the other actors involved for maintaining the same level of ambition in the conceptualisation, organisation and support of this unique event, the Paralympic Games. I know the immense power of the Paralympic Games and I know that our country will fall in love with them, become immersed in them and be forever marked by them. See you on 28 August!
About Paris 2024
The mission of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 Organising Committee, in accordance with the host city contract signed between the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Comité National Olympique et Sportif Français (CNOSF – French National Olympic and Sporting Committee) and the Ville de Paris municipal authorities, is to plan, organise, fund and deliver the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024.
The Olympic and Paralympic Games are the greatest sporting event in the world, with unparalleled media impact. They bring together 10,500 Olympic athletes and 4,400 Paralympic athletes, respectively from 206 and 182 delegations, across five continents. They are watched by over 13 million spectators and 4 billion television viewers across the world, across a total of over 100,000 hours of TV broadcasting. They are without equal in sporting, economic and cultural events throughout the world, and this power helps to further their impact.
Set up in January 2018, Paris 2024 is headed by Tony Estanguet, three-time Olympic champion. It is run by a Board of Directors, on which sit all the founding members of the project: the CNOSF, Ville de Paris, the French Government, the Île-de-France regional authority, the CPSF, the Métropole du Grand Paris, the Conseil départemental de Seine Saint-Denis, representatives of the local authorities involved in the Games, civil society and corporate partners.
