Paris

Paris, the heart of the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Paris, a crucible of sporting feats and emotions, will be an exceptional arena for the Paralympic Games! Its most beautiful sites and monuments will serve as a magnificent backdrop for Paralympic athletes to showcase their remarkable abilities and create striking juxtapositions of sport and French heritage. The Eiffel Tower Stadium will transform into a field of play for blind football, while the Esplanade des Invalides will host the para-archery event. Paris is also set to provide competitors with a first-rate competition environment at renowned sports venues.

These iconic places will showcase the feats of para-athletes and take their inspiration to unprecedented heights. Porte de La Chapelle Arena will host the para-badminton and para-powerlifting events and Aréna Bercy will set the scene for wheelchair basketball. For the first time ever, the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games opening ceremony will unfold outside a stadium, right in the heart of the French capital. The athletes' parade will get going at the foot of the Champs-Élysées, the most beautiful avenue on Earth, and finish in Place de la Concorde, the largest square in Paris.

The legacy of the Paralympic Games in the City of Paris

Paris aims to use the Paralympic Games as a catalyst for transformation, through basic structural improvements and by developing expertise in welcoming visitors with disabilities.

As Paris prepares to welcome 350,000 visitors with disabilities, the city has undertaken major accessibility improvements. These will create a lasting legacy for Parisians after the Games, resulting in:

A fast-tracked accessibility upgrade of the city's sports facilities, sped up by the Games: 80% of the sports venues in Paris will be accessible to people with disabilities by the end of 2024 and 100% of competition and training sites within the city limits will be fully accessible for the Games.

Accessibility of competition venues and the city of Paris as a whole: major renovations, totalling 5.4 million euros, are under way in the approach areas of venues to guarantee access for people with disabilities. Parisian public spaces are undergoing a makeover too, with new surfaces, lowered pavements and audible signals at crossings. By the time of the Games, 100% of bus lines will be accessible and 17 enhanced accessibility neighbourhoods will be established (one in each city district). These neighbourhoods feature priority routes with enhanced accessibility to at least one municipal public access building, including sports venues, medical centres, schools, libraries and more.

Introducing para-friendly sports sections to boost para-sport and promote inclusivity in sports. The target is to establish 40 sections and double the number of para-sport licence holders in Paris by 2024.