Paris 2024 Olympics | Champions Park: a look back at the party reserved for Olympic medallists

This Wednesday, July 31, the Champions Park of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games celebrated its second opening day, following a grand welcome for the French medallists on July 29. Set up to celebrate all the medallists in the competition, it once again lived up to expectations, offering magical moments in a picture-postcard setting between the Eiffel Tower and Place du Trocadéro.

Once again, the show was exceptional. Despite fears about the weather forecast, the Champions Park of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games held firm and was finally able to remain open long enough to welcome the athletes and the public. After congratulating Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, the French Rugby Sevens team and the judokas on the opening day, the thousands of spectators who flocked to the foot of the Eiffel Tower were able to cheer some of the heroes of the last two days.

On Wednesday, July 31, only one Frenchman was on the promontory: Victor Koretzky. The Frenchman, silver medallist in the Mountain Bike event, put on a show in front of no fewer than 13,000 fans gathered on this legendary site. On the international side, judokas Andreja Leski and Hidayat Heydarov, Serbia's Olympic champions in the mixed 10m air pistol event and the American women, bronze medallists in rugby Sevens, took time out to celebrate with the public.