Paris enters race to host 2024 Olympics
Tuesday 23 June 2015 12:10, UK
Paris has announced their bid to host the 2024 Olympics, which would mark 100 years since they last did so.
Paris has announced their bid to host the 2024 Olympics, which would mark 100 years since they last did so.
The French capital missed out to London for right to stage the 2012 Games and also submitted failed bids for the 2008 and 1992 Games.
Rome, Boston and Hamburg have already declared they will bid to stage the event, while Budapest is also expected to enter the running.
Paris last hosted the Olympics in 1924, where the achievements of British runners Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell were immortalised in the Oscar winning film Chariots of Fire.
Bernard Lapasset, the head of World Rugby, has been appointed chairman of Paris 2024.
"Paris is delighted to officially confirm its bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games - an important first milestone as our host city campaign journey commences,” lapasset said in an official statement.
"We believe that this bid and our goal to host the 2024 Games will excite, unite and enthuse the people of Paris, our entire nation and lovers of Olympic and Paralympic sport all over the world."
Denis Masseglia, president of the French national Olympic committee (CNOSF), confirmed the bid would be planned in line with the IOC's new 'Agenda 2020' strategy which aims to deliver more flexible and less costly Games.
"In line with the IOC's Agenda 2020 strategy, Paris 2024 promises a feasible and flexible Games concept that will be an authentic reflection of the diverse and dynamic cultural, social, environmental and sporting traditions of our local communities, the city and the French people,” said Masseglia.
