From August 28 to September 8, 2024, the Paralympic Games will take place in Paris. The organizers want a popular festival with a maximum of spectators, like London in 2012.
Published on: 08/28/2023 – 05:40
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On Wednesday August 28, 2024, the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Paris will be organized in the heart of the French capital, between the prestigious Avenue des Champs-Élysées and Place de la Concorde.
Paris is expecting 4,700 athletes for the 2024 Paralympic Games. During eleven days of competition, the public will be able to enjoy 22 para-sports.
2.8 million tickets available
Eighteen sites will host the events, all located in Île-de-France, except for para-shooting, scheduled for Châteauroux. Spectators can go to the Palace of Versailles for para-equestrian, to the Grand Palais for wheelchair fencing and para-taekwondo or even blind football, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower.
On the price side, the 2.8 million tickets will be available from 15 euros and half of the tickets should cost 25 euros or less. They will be sold from October 9, said the president of the Paralympic committee, Marie-Amélie Le Fur. ” We want to make these Paralympic Games a popular celebration and ensure that the French come in large numbers, with their families, to vibrate, to feel the emotions of Paralympic sport. “, she said.
In Paris, we can applaud French athletes like Alexandre Léauté, victim of a stroke at birth, king of para-cycling at the 2023 Worlds in Scotland where he collected five rainbow jerseys (category C2) on the track (pursuit, kilometer, omnium) and on the road (line race and time trial). Or Timothée Adolphe, in para-athletics, who won everything except Paralympic gold. This “Grail” will be the objective of the 33-year-old sprinter in Paris.
Undervalued performance
Since the huge success of the London edition in 2012, the Paralympic Games are unmissable. In the English capital, the stadiums were full, and almost all the tickets (more than 2.7 million tickets, 900,000 more than in Beijing in 2008) had been sold.
In 2016 in Rio, the Paralympic Games benefited from greater media coverage. In France, viewers were able to follow the exploits of the athletes with more than 100 hours of live. In 2024, in addition to the medals, these top athletes hope to enter the spotlight once and for all.
