The world’s Paralympic athletes, marching down France’s most famous side road with their prosthetics, mobility chairs and stories of adversity, head to a big birthday party of their prowess and sports on the Place de Paris, where the French revolutionaries of 1789 cut off their heads. .
Paris organizers on Thursday announced plans for the opening rite of the Paralympic Games, an occasion with 4,400 athletes after the first post-COVID-19 Olympics in less than two years.
What is striking is the venue itself: initially, the inaugural exhibition of the Paralympic Games will be freed from the classic stage of the stadium and will take place in the open-air square in the center of the French capital, on the Boulevard des Champs-Élysées. and the largest square in the city, Plos angelesce de los angeles Concorde.
Located as a jewel between the Tuileries Gardens, the Seine and the majestic Hôtel de Crillon, the will become an arena for the new Olympic game of breakdancing, 3v3 basketball, BMX cycling and skateboarding, which returns to the program. after his Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games delayed by the pandemic in 2021.
Just 17 days after July 26-August. 11 Paris Olympics, the Plos angelesce de los angeles Concorde will take the middle level for the unprecedented opening rite from August 28 to September 28. 8 Paralympic Games.
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International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons predicted a rite that will be “a thing and a once-in-a-lifetime occasion that will remain in all our stories. “
“This festival of inclusion begins with the truly exclusive party of thousands of Paralympic athletes marching down the world’s most famous avenue. What an incredible thrill it will be to enter the Champs-Elysées and then descend to the Plos angelesce de los angeles. Concorde, while framed by the Arc de Triomphe and the Louvre,” he said in remarks distributed by 2024 organizers.
Organizers said space will be created at the rite for another 65,000 people — the crowd in a giant Olympic stadium.
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The president of the French Paralympic and Sports Committee, Marie-Amélie Le Fur, said that leaving the barriers of the stadium “is a revolution”.
“Walking down the Champs-Elysees to Plos angelesce de los angeles Concorde and sharing it with 65,000 other people in the center of the capital will be a historic moment,” he said. “This is unheard of. “
Approximately 30,000 attendees will attend the rite free of charge.
The selection of the venue is part of a major effort by Paris organizers to free the Olympic and Paralympic Games from the chains of classic sports venues and reshape the French capital into a giant playground for the sports of the Games, along with the Eiffel Tower, the Grand Palais. and other monuments. Used as festive venues.
The concept, summed up in the official slogan, “Open Wide Games,” is risk-free. Using urban sites as sites poses security, transportation, and logistics challenges.
The boats will parade the 10,500 athletes in the channel from east to west. Organizers are making plans for at least 600,000 spectators, most of them ticketless and watching for free, and touting it as the biggest opening rite in Olympic history.
The opening and final ceremonies of the Olympic and Paralympic Games will be hosted by award-winning French director Thomas Joly.
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