Celebrating the Games throughout France !

In one year’s time, the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will open with a groundbreaking celebration around the athletes from the many different countries with a parade along the Seine, sharing this experience with hundreds of thousands of spectators on the river banks. The celebratory atmosphere will continue all summer, along the River Seine and its canals, in each arrondissement throughout Paris, from La Villette to Saint-Denis, and in many other communities across the Paris Region.

Paris 2024’s ambition is to offer Games that are for everyone, and this involves celebration venues, at the heart of Paris, which will become an outstanding Olympic and Paralympic park. Our ambition is also to go further, enabling members of the public to share this experience with their champions through groundbreaking celebration initiatives, such as the Champions Park, Club France or the Park of Nations in La Villette.

Champions Park, for sharing this experience with all the champions

Set up at Trocadéro, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, the Champions Park will be the go-to destination for sports fans from around the world to meet up and celebrate the medal-winning athletes, their achievements and all of the incredible stories that will mark the Games.

For the first time in the history of the Summer Games, all of the medal winners will be invited to meet up and share with thousands of fans, at the heart of the city, at Trocadéro, in a magnificent space, which will be fitted out and freely accessible for everyone.

Every day will be marked by the celebration of the previous day’s medal winners, who will have finished their competitions and will be invited to take part in a parade and meet members of the public, followed by live screenings of the day’s major sporting moments, in what will become an open-air arena.

The programme will also include performances by artists and cultural activities, helping make the Champions Park a complete and universal celebratory experience, in addition to a space for celebrating sport.

Club France, for celebrating French athletes’ achievements

In 2024, the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) and the French Paralympic and Sports Committee (CPSF) wanted to join together to offer a space for celebrating French athletes’ achievements that will be accessible for all French fans: Club France. 

Throughout the Games, in the north-east of Paris, Parc de la Villette and its Grande Halle will be the beating heart of Team France, which will celebrate there alongside its supporters in a great atmosphere. More than 700,000 people are expected to meet up there and enjoy the atmosphere around the French athletes’ achievements, celebrating together and taking part in taster sessions to discover the various sports. 

Club France will be built around three pillars that will guide its programme of activities and events:

• Incredible atmosphere: Club France will be the dedicated celebration zone for supporters of Team France and its 900 athletes. The thousands of spectators present will follow the French athletes’ achievements accompanied by former Olympic and Paralympic champions.  
• Celebrations: Club France will exclusively welcome the day’s French medal winners. Every evening, the French athletes will be celebrated with the fans, who will share a unique moment with these exceptional champions before the Grande Halle transforms into a space for partying. 
• Discovery: Club France will be a place where members of the public will be able to discover new sports, new sensations, new experiences, thanks to the presence of the sports federations and the French sports community. This will also be the event where the entire sporting ecosystem will come together and prepare for the future. 

La Villette: the Park of Nations, showcasing the universality of the Games

An open-air sports facility, Parc de la Villette will naturally be one of the iconic venues for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with Club France and many French sports federations present in its Grande Halle and garden areas.

Some will be welcomed in pavilions designed and built by students from France’s national architecture schools as part of the Archi-Folies 2024 project, awarded the Cultural Olympiad label. This pioneering initiative to bring sport and architecture together is being supported and funded by the French Ministry of Culture, and is being made possible thanks to the CNOSF, Paris 2024, the national architecture and landscaping schools, the Olympic federations and the many different sponsors. 

Several National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and National Paralympic Committees (NPCs) will also have spaces at various iconic locations around the Park. Like a Park of Nations throughout summer 2024, La Villette will be open to everyone who loves sport and its values, from around the world, and who has an irresistible desire to celebrate the Olympic and Paralympic Games, a truly global event.