Like the Seine for the Olympic Games, Paris will be at the heart of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games.
The Board of Directors of Paris 2024, meeting this Thursday at the headquarters of the organizing committee, in Saint-Denis, validated the concept of the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games in the city, for a celebration in the heart of Paris, between the Champs-Élysées and the Place de la Concorde.
This decision, endorsed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), comes a few days after the popular success of the very first Paralympic Day, on October 8, which brought together tens of thousands of people on the Place de la Bastille, in Paris. .
For the first edition of the Paralympic Games organized in France, Paris 2024 is thinking big and revisiting the concept of the opening ceremonies. For the first time in the history of the Games, the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games (on the Seine), then of the Paralympic Games will take place – a few weeks apart – outside the stadiums, in the heart of Paris.
The Champs-Élysées and their extension to Place de la Concorde will thus be the grandiose setting for a ceremony which will open on August 28, 2024 with a parade of 4,400 athletes from 184 delegations from all over the world.
