“This Olympic flame will carry the Olympic spirit from here, our ancient roots, across France and eventually to Paris, making the City of Lights even brighter.” Illuminating the first Olympic Games, inspired by our Olympic Agenda Reform, from start to finish. These Olympics will be younger, more inclusive, more urban and more sustainable. These will be the first completely gender-equal Olympics, as the IOC allocated exactly 50 percent of the spots to female and male athletes. ”
The ceremony will also be held in Paris with stakeholders from France's sport, political and social sectors to realize the key objective of the Olympic Agenda 2020, namely to create a legacy long before the end of the Olympic Games. It was also an opportunity to recognize the efforts being made by the 2024 Games. started. The Paris 2024 concept of delivering Games Wide Open has already attracted millions of people by promoting physical activity, education, inclusivity, equality and sustainability.
Tony Estanguet, President of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee, also spoke at the ceremony, sharing the expectations of the host country as a whole. He said: “France is ready to welcome the Olympic Games, 100 years since the last Summer Games. It is a great pride and honor to host the Olympic Games in the country of founder Pierre de Coubertin. has a very strong and special connection to Olympism in Paris, France, after the first women took part in the 1900 Paris Games and the creation of the first Olympic Village at the 1924 Paris Games. With the third edition, we are ready to write a new chapter in the history of the great Olympic Games, and we would like to thank the IOC and Thomas Bach for their continued help and support over the years. , we have been able to conceive and create tournaments that are not only great, but also more responsible, especially from an environmental perspective. Together we will organize great tournaments. It begins today with the Olympic torch relay.
