1 Vision and Concept 1 Vision for Paralympic the Olympic Games Games vision A new vision of Olympism Paris 2024 will offer a compelling demonstration of how investment in growing para-sport can deliver self- in action sustaining human, social and economic benefits. Paris 2024 will be memorable and meaningful Games, The Paris 2024 Paralympic Games will be the pinnacle delivered in a unique spirit of international celebration, of a seven-year, sport-led journey towards greater in the birthplace of the modern Olympic Movement. participation and social inclusion of people with an impairment in France. The Games will focus and build upon the original By using the opportunity to tackle significant barriers meaning of Olympism, to provide a case study of what to participation, Paris 2024 will act as a watershed ‘a better world through sport’ can mean in the modern This network will be the engine that will turn Games age. inspiration into participation, especially among hard- in the development of Paralympism in France, while to-reach groups. Paris 2024 will prioritise a progressive simultaneously improving access and inclusion for One hundred years after Paris last hosted the Olympic model of collaboration with a range of public and everyone with an impairment Games, the 2024 Games will demonstrate, in a new era, private organisations to embed sport and the Olympic The Paralympic Games will play a central role in the how sport remains relevant to societies everywhere as Values into other areas of public policy; and to deliver vision that Paris wants to share with the world, centring a bridge to achieving crucial social and public policy new sport-led social programmes targeting areas as on the true value and potential of sport in society. goals. diverse as workplace safety, obesity and mental health. The legacy of Paris 2024 will serve everyone involved Paris 2024 will showcase and honour the courage, Overall, the aim is to engage 80% of the French achievement and determination of the world’s greatest in the global sports movement – and all who believe in population in regular physical activity, inspired by the athletes, in a city where the concept of sport at the sport as a force for good in our world. 2024 Games. Platform for a new era service of humanity was first brought to life. Paris 2024 will deliver a flawless global celebration, The Paralympic Movement will benefit from world- Engage everyone drawing on France’s world-famous art de vivre and the class delivery and a determination to add value to the A better Paris through sport beauty and infrastructure of its capital city. Paralympic brand, in a nation where spectator and commercial interest in para-sport is growing all the The Paris 2024 vision is underpinned by a commitment Paris 2024 will also act as a powerful catalyst to the The city will also serve as an ideal stage to launch a time. to active healthy living and sport for all. ‘Grand Paris’ initiative – one of the greatest evolutions new chapter in Olympism. France is the world’s most Paris 2024 will be the catalyst to unlock the full capacity in the history of the City of Light. It will deliver a visited country, with 80 million overseas guests a year. and potential of France’s national sports system, whose dynamic, new metropolitan area, uniting the beauty, And for centuries, Paris has been a destination for all unique assets include more than 265,000 community economic strength and historical assets of central Paris those seeking to collaborate, innovate and inspire on sports facilities and a human network comprising more with the youth and energy of its suburban belt. a global scale. than one quarter of the national population. The new Olympic and Paralympic Village will be Paris 2024 aims to harness the same spirit of located in Seine – Saint-Denis, one of the youngest partnership, creativity and inspiration to successfully and most diverse parts of the new Grand Paris. This deliver the first Games fully conceived in the Olympic investment will be aligned with a wider programme of Agenda 2020 era. The ambition is to maximise the new housing, amenities and transport links helping to Games’ potential to be a catalyst for engagement, close the significant health, wealth and opportunity innovation and development, in the city in which Pierre gaps that exist between central Paris and its suburbs. de Coubertin first imagined a world united by sport. 8 - PARIS 2024 PARIS 2024 - 9