The public can take part in events, such as the ‘Marathon Pour Tous’, when 40,000 people will run the same route just hours before the Olympic athletes”
50 % female, 50% male: for the first time in history, there will be full gender parity at the Olympic Games 100 % renewable energy to be used at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
The IOC is strengthening this important enabling role of sport and contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Guided by our Olympic Agenda reforms, we are strengthening collaboration with partners from G7 members and beyond, to advance the SDGs through sport in areas such as peace, health, education, gender equality, climate action and many more. The IOC is also embracing the potential of AI to strengthen the Olympic values of universality and solidarity across the world of sport. A NEW ERA OF OLYMPIC GAMES When the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 open in just a few weeks’ time, it will showcase a new era of Olympic Games: younger, more inclusive, more urban, more sustainable. These will be the very first Olympic Games inspired by the Olympic Agenda from start to finish. The slogan ‘Games Wide Open’ is about creating inclusive Olympic Games in all aspects. Spectators will have the opportunity to become participants.
Iconic monuments will be transformed into competition venues, bringing urban sports such as sport climbing, skateboarding or breaking into the heart of the city. The public can take part in events, such as the ‘Marathon Pour Tous’, when 40,000 people will run the same route just hours before the Olympic athletes. Already in 2020, Paris 2024 launched an ambitious programme introducing 30 minutes of daily exercise in primary schools throughout France and is on track to reach 4.2 million children. Another significant milestone: full gender parity at the Olympic Games for the first time in history. The IOC has allocated exactly 50% of the quota places to female athletes and exactly 50% to male athletes. When it comes to sustainability, Paris 2024 aims to cut emissions by 50% compared to previous Olympic Games. To achieve this, the games will rely on 100% renewable energy and use 95% existing or temporary venues. With these and other measures, Paris is on track to achieve this ambitious goal six years ahead of the global 2030 target set by the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. SPORT FOR A BETTER WORLD These are just a few examples that illustrate how Paris 2024 will showcase the contribution of sport to building a better world. Two years later, it will be Italy’s turn to showcase our new approach to sustainable winter sport. The Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026 will pulsate with Italy’s passion for sport and highlight its unique culture and heritage. We can only make this vision a reality by coming together – by embracing the Olympic motto: Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together. In this Olympic spirit, I extend the hand of the IOC to the G7 leaders to join forces in partnership to make the world a better and more peaceful place through sport.
THOMAS BACH Thomas Bach was elected
president of the International Olympics Committee in 2013 and re-elected in 2021. A lawyer by profession, he won a gold medal in fencing at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and was named founding president of the German Olympic Sports Confederation in 2006. He was an athletes’ representative at the 1981 Baden-Baden Olympic Congress and a founding member of the IOC’s Athletes’ Commission. He was appointed to the IOC Executive Board in 1996 and served as an IOC vice-president for over 10 years.
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