Hero background

Gourmet, more local, more plant-based food for the Games

Throughout the Games, France will welcome the entire world to its table. During the two 15-day periods of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, Paris 2024 will serve over 13 million meals. From breakfast to dinner, from sandwiches to reception buffets, Paris 2024 will fulfil the needs of athletes, volunteers, spectators, and the media. And because they all will be in France, they’ll expect to eat well! In the land of gastronomy and considering the major climatic and environmental challenges in the world today, it is an operational, cultural, and environmental challenge that all the players involved in the Games are preparing to embrace. What if the Paris 2024 Games were an opportunity to discover a new way of eating in stadiums and sports events? Paris 2024 intends to use the Games as an opportunity to highlight how creative and sustainable food can be produced at a major international event, as is highlighted in its “Food Vision”.

Delivering 13 million meals

Delivering 13 million meals—the equivalent of the amount provided at 10 football World Cup tournaments—is the largest event catering operation in the world. For any organising committee, the challenge is primarily operational: to meet the needs of all Games audiences efficiently and optimally.

But because the next edition of the Games is taking place in France (the world record holder for time spent at the table) and because humanity is facing unprecedented climatic and environmental challenges that require the mobilization of all, Paris 2024 must also rise to the challenge: to enable everyone to eat well and responsibly!

Paris 2024’s ambition for the Games is to use the knowledge and creativity of French cuisine to create more responsible eating habits in stadiums and during sports events.

120 organisations mobilised to define the Food Vision of the Games

France has a rich and committed food ecosystem: farmers, chefs, artisans, restaurant owners, caterers, nutritionists, associations… all are keen to make the Games an opportunity to highlight the best that France has to offer. Therefore Paris 2024 wanted to consult them, not only to canvass their vision and expectations for these Games, but also to listen to their expertise to define ambitious but achievable and down-to-earth objectives. In total, 120 organisations and 200 athletes were involved. The result? A document intended to guide all the partners and future service providers of the Games towards a common ambition to feed the public of the Games.

Six commitments and 60 sub-commitments to move the lines

Compared to its predecessors, Paris 2024 is raising its environmental and social ambitions with quantified objectives, structured around six key commitments.

    These six commitments are then broken down into 60 sub-commitments for each type of product or service, including: 100% French and sustainable meat, French dairy products, 100% products from sustainable fishing, 100% free-range eggs from France, etc.

    So, what will we really be eating during the Games? 

    The athletes will primarily eat in the Village, which will become the largest restaurant in the world, offering all types of cuisine to meet the nutritional needs and cultural habits of the 15,000 athletes from 208 territories and nations. Volunteers will share friendly moments over generous meals, mainly made from local and seasonal products. Spectators will be able to taste different sandwiches at Paris, Marseille and Lyon venues, designed by chefs using products from the French regions. The common denominator between them all: healthy, gourmet and creative food, with more plant-based and local options at affordable prices!

    Discover the Paris 2024 Food Vision

    Watch the announcement at the Change Now Summit 2022

      FAQ

      Questions? Contact us

      • Paris 2024 has chosen to rely on 95% existing or temporary infrastructure for the Games.

        At the end of the event, all materials and structures installed on a temporary basis will be repurposed, reused or recycled.

        This commitment was made at the outset of the bid, and all temporary infrastructure operators are committed to meeting this objective.

      • Built on a former industrial wasteland bordering the communes of Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine and L'île-Saint-Denis, the Olympic and Paralympic Village was first designed for the area.

        A project that existed prior to the Games itself, it has been improved and accelerated thanks to the Games, and will be one of the main physical legacies.

        By 2025, it will be transformed into a sustainable city district, with housing, offices and shops, where almost 12,000 people will live and work.

        Solutions for low-carbon construction and a site adapted to the climatic conditions of 2050 include triple glazing, cooling floors, green spaces and geothermal energy.

        During the Games, it will be equipped by Paris 2024 to accommodate the 15,000 athletes, using modular partitions that will be re-used and furniture whose second-life solutions will be identified before the Games.

      • As stated by ADEME since 2022, the notion of "carbon neutrality" - i.e., emitting no more emissions than the planet or a territory can absorb - can only be applied on a global or territorial scale.

        To contribute to carbon neutrality, all organizations must participate in the reduction effort, and can support projects to combat climate change.

        On its own scale, Paris 2024 has set itself the target of cutting event-related CO2 emissions in half, by taking action in all areas of the organization. For those emissions that cannot be avoided, the Organizing Committee has chosen to finance projects that will help combat global warming while providing co-benefits for local populations and biodiversity.

        These include reforestation, forest preservation and renewable energy development projects.

        In line with ADEME's recommendation on climate-related communications, Paris 2024 no longer uses the expression "carbon-neutral" Games, without lowering its ambitions in this area.