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Organizers of the Paris Olympics marked the two-years-to-go milestone to the 2024 games by unveiling the official slogan — "Games Wide Open" — on Monday and said they got fresh backing from French President Emmanuel Macron for their planned giant opening ceremony along the Seine River.
PARIS: As he left the Tokyo Olympics last August, Tony Estanguet, head of the Paris 2024 organising committee, told AFP he was "prepared to run a marathon at 100m speed."
Paris 2024 Olympics President Tony Estanguet says he wants to «make people dream», as he joined in with 'Olympic Day' celebrations around the globe. The event — held to commemorate the day the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was founded and to promote sport, health and being together — marks just over two years until the next Olympiad in the French capital.
Olympic champion Joe Clarke laid down the gauntlet to his gold medal successor Jiřà Prskavec, insisting he is back to full fitness and ready to knock the Czech paddler off his perch. The Stafford & Stone star picked up K1 gold at Rio 2016 but did not defend his title before suffering a shoulder injury in 2019 and a wrist injury at the start of January. Ad/> In Clarke's absence, Prskavec has reigned supreme, winning Olympic and European gold.
London 2012 put just under nine million tickets up for sale and sold some 8.2 million, while Atlanta 1996 sold around 8.3 million of 11 million available.
PARIS: Organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympics are hoping to sell a record 10 million tickets for the sporting extravaganza with an additional 3.4 million available for the Paralympic Games, the boss of the organising committee said.
The boss of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games believes the proposed opening ceremony on the River Seine will be the «biggest highlight of the games». Tony Estanguet has a big job on his hands coordinating the logistics of a ceremony that will take place outside a stadium setting for the first time in the history of the Olympics. Ad/> But with the potential impact of the curtain-raising event now starting to be grasped in terms of the accessibility it will give to spectators, Estanguet expects it to be transformational.
After two Games clouded by Covid-19 restrictions, Paris 2024 is looking to launch a new momentum for the sporting extravaganza, promising an Olympic "light at the end of the tunnel".