One year out from the Olympic Games, Olympic Review shines a spotlight on Paris

Featuring contributions from personalities from outside the Olympic Movement, the magazine looks ahead to Paris 2024, billed the Games for a New Era, and imagines what athletes and spectators can expect one year from now.

The topics covered in this edition include:

• “Games for a New Era”: As the excitement builds for the first edition of the Games organised fully in line with the Olympic Agenda 2020 reforms, we review the organisers’ plans to showcase iconic Paris by putting it front and centre, and how these Games will be more youthful and more urban, by Alain Lunzenfichter

• “We’re on Schedule”: One year out from the Games, senior civil servant Michal Cadot discusses the progress of the preparations, explains the challenges, and examines the planned legacy of the event

• “Games Wide Open”: Paris 2024 Organising Committee President and three-time Olympic champion Tony Estanguet explains how his main driver has been to bring a spectacular, magical quality to the Games, and to make sport accessible to more people at every level through initiatives like “Terre de Jeux” and Club Paris 2024

• “Sport has to be Inclusive”: Paris 2024 could provide a catalyst for greater inclusion says former rugby union player and Paris Deputy Mayor Pierre Rabadan

• “Visualising a New Future for Female Coaches”: As Paris 2024 becomes the first Olympic Games to have full gender parity on the field of play, efforts are needed to ensure that this parity carries over to other parts of the sporting world. Canoe coach Myriam Fox-Jerusalmi describes her experience and what is needed to bring more women into the coaching fold

• “The Athletes’ View”: Triathlete Alistair Brownlee, volleyball player Antoine Brizard, judoka Clarisse Agbégnénou, athletics Paralympian Arnaud Assoumani and B-girl Anniina Tikka look forward to the Games next year with anticipation and excitement

• The legacy of London 2012 could provide a blueprint for what Paris and France could expect after the Games, say Sir Hugh Robertson and Bill Morris

Olympic Review also looks back 100 years to the last time that Paris hosted the Olympic Games and, through a series of historical pieces, examines those early Games, their evolution over the following 100 years, and how, in many ways, they set the scene for what should be a magnificent festival of sport in a year’s time.

• Paris 1924 marked a turning point in the history of Paris and the Olympic Games, according to Thierry Terret, former Minister Delegate for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024

• Frenchman and modern Olympic Games Founder Pierre de Coubertin played a key role in securing the 1924 Olympic Games for his beloved city of Paris, says American author George Hirthler

• The road to gender parity in sport has been long and challenging, but now the Olympic Games are succeeding where other sectors are lagging, says gender expert and academic Florence Carpentier, as she traces the development of women’s sport in France and in the world

These and other features can be read in Olympic Review 120, which is available here.

The oldest regular publication of the International Olympic Committee, the Olympic Review is the official magazine of the Olympic Movement. Published twice a year in English, French and Spanish, its content is a mix of official news and information, plus more in-depth features on topics of interest to the sporting movement. You can find all previous editions of the Olympic Review in the Olympic World Library.

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