Paris 2024 will be 'turning point' for Games - IOC

The International Olympic Committee is confident that Paris will be ready to host the 2024 Summer Games, the IOC's Coordination Commission said on Wednesday.

"We are leaving Paris with a very, very high level of confidence that Paris will be ready to host the Olympic Games," the president of the Commission, Pierre-OlivierBeckers-Vieujant, told a press conference.

"Paris will be a turning point in the history of the modern Games. There will be a before and an after the Paris Games."

The Paris 2024 Olympics will be held from 26 August to 11 July.