2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games [FRA]

Strategies and policies

• Legacy and sustainable policy, opens in a new tab, Paris 2024, (June 2022). Paris 2024, in alignment with the IOC Agenda 2020 and in alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, is committed to organize Olympic and Paralympic Games of a new era; Games that contribute to the ecological and social transformation of the society.
  • Be exemplary and innovative in environmental matters by delivering carbon neutral Games; preserving and regenerating biodiversity; developing a circular economy; building environmental resilience and contributing to the acceleration of the sport, territories and major events ecological transformation.
  • Organize Games that drive social and economic development for the host territories and improve their quality of life for as many people as possible; that support inclusion, egality, solidarity, the fight against racism and stereotypes; and that strengthens the role of sport in society.
  • Mobilize the Generation 2024 to accelerate society transformation through education and citizen engagement, by and through sport.
  • Integrate universal accessibility in an exemplary way as early as the Games conception, with the aim of ensuring an inclusive experience for all and leaving a material and immaterial legacy.
• Code of Ethics, opens in a new tab, Paris 2024, (October 2021). The Paris 2024 Code of Ethics is the reference document that will, through to 2024, guide the actions of all the partners, volunteers and actors involved in the organisation of the Games. It is a text that expresses a commitment and which seeks to embody the principles of integrity, neutrality and fair play, in which we firmly believe. It is the essential foundation of the relationship of trust that we hope to forge with the public and all stakeholders in successfully creating a new Games model with them.

Reports

• Games that respond to society's current challenges, opens in a new tab, Paris 2024, (August 2021). This document is a summary of Paris 2024’s legacy and sustainability plan and report, both of which were published in summer 2021. The plan examines and reaffirms common legacy and environmental excellence commitments, while the report, which has a wider scope, presents the first set of results and, more generally, the status of strategy implementation. Both documents are available on the Paris 2024 website.

Media

• Cultural Olympiad, opens in a new tab, (accessed 5 November 2025). A multidisciplinary artistic and cultural programme that unfolds from the end of the previous Games to the end of the following Paralympic Games. Paris 2024, in other words, has three seasons to add artistic creation to sports thrills and chills. The Cultural Olympiad is an original programme to explore the connections between art and athletics, and the values they share excellence, inclusion, cultural diversity and universalism for instance.
• Cybersecurity stepped up for Paris 2024 Olympics, opens in a new tab, Philip Barker, Inside the Games, (14 December 2022). The team responsible for cybersecurity at the Paris 2024 Olympics have launched a series of exercises aimed at preventing a repetition of attacks at the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics through a programme of cyber malware dubbed "Olympic Destroyer."
• French Government restricts major festivals during Paris 2024 for security reasons, opens in a new tab, Patrick Burke, Inside the Games, (14 December 2022). Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, Culture Minister Rima Abdul Malak and Sports and Olympic and Paralympic Games Minister Amélie Oudea-Castera have devised a four-stage plan for the staging of cultural events which would clash with Paris 2024. This includes a ban on major cultural, festive and sporting events requiring the deployment of mobile force units (UFMs) from the opening of the Olympic Village on July 18 until the end of the Olympics on August 11.
• Security preparations underway for Paris 2024, opens in a new tab, Christine Brown, Around the Rings, (26 October 2022). 35,000 guards will be deployed to help with the opening ceremony with a crowd of 600,000 expected both on the banks of the Seine and from street level up above.

Websites

• Paris 2024 Olympic Games document library, opens in a new tab, International Olympic Committee, (accessed 5 November 2025).