Paris 2024 held its Volunteer Conference to kick off a novel behind-the-scenes expertise of the world’s greatest sporting occasion for the 45,000 volunteers who’ve been chosen for the Video games. The occasion was held at Paris La Défense Area in Nanterre, a future competitors venue for the Paris 2024 Video games. In the course of the occasion, volunteers had the chance to spend a festive day exploring the Video games in addition to discovering their uniform, designed with DECATHLON, an Official Accomplice of the Paris 2024 Video games.
Tony Estanguet, President of Paris 2024, accompanied by the ambassadors of the volunteer programme, offered the ambition of the Video games to volunteers from throughout France.
On the finish of the occasion, the place volunteers had been in a position to uncover the medals, torch, mascots and the programme of celebrations in France, Paris 2024 and its associate DECATHLON, lifted the veil on an important image of the Video games: the volunteers’ uniform.
One staff, one uniform!
The design of the volunteers’ uniform is the fruit of collaborative work with the groups from our associate DECATHLON. It took over a yr to conceive and design every bit of this unisex uniform, which will probably be appropriate for all missions, all conditions, all climate circumstances, and all physique shapes.
Snug and purposeful, every volunteer’s uniform is made up of 15 objects, together with the jersey, which makes reference to an iconic French vogue merchandise: the marinière (sailor striped shirt.) The uniform is an important component for the volunteers, enabling them to be recognized by everybody concerned within the Olympic and Paralympic Video games, from spectators to accredited officers.
The press package is accessible right here.
The visuals can be found right here.
The conference is the place to begin of the Video games journey. Over the following few weeks, the volunteers will start their on-line coaching, earlier than accumulating their accreditations and uniforms in Might, and discovering the venue the place they are going to be working from July onwards.
“All day lengthy, alongside the Paris 2024 groups, the ambassadors of the mission and this massive gathering of volunteers, we felt and shared the vitality of the Video games. The timetable is accelerating. On 17 April, there will probably be simply 100 days left till the Video games, 100 days to organize to welcome the world. On the Paris La Défense Area in Nanterre, which is able to host the swimming, para swimming and water polo competitions this summer season, we’ve in the present day kicked off a novel and unforgettable expertise. We’re proud to welcome the 45,000 volunteers to the Paris 2024 staff!” Tony Estanguet, President of Paris 2024.
“DECATHLON could be very proud to design the clothes for the 45,000 volunteers on the Olympic and Paralympic Video games Paris 2024, as a result of these are passionate men and women who, like us, present entry to sport and allow everybody to expertise this international occasion to the complete. We will probably be sharing our experience and keenness for sport with hundreds of thousands of individuals around the globe by eco-designed clothes that’s trendy, purposeful and shows our new visible id.” Barbara Martin Coppola, CEO of DECATHLON.
Key Figures
45,000 Volunteers for the Olympic and Paralympic Video games Paris 2024
A staff made up of fifty% males and 50% ladies
1 in 3 volunteers comes from the grassroots sports activities motion
101 departments of origin
20% worldwide candidates representing 150 nations
5%+ volunteers with a incapacity
Nearly 50% of Paralympic Video games volunteers can even have participated within the Olympic Video games
