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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach visits l'école des Epinettes in Paris, France, June 10, 2024. /CFP
Paris is ready to host the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said at a meeting of the organization's executive board on Wednesday.
"Paris, [is] not only on track, to deliver the first ever, Olympic Games, aligned with our Olympic agenda, reforms. But they are ready, they are set," Bach said.
This year's Olympic Games will take place from July 26 to August 11, with some 10,500 athletes from 206 countries and regions participating in 329 events in 32 sports. Moreover, the opening ceremony will, for the first time, not be held at the main stadium. Instead, it's scheduled to happen on the River Seine in the form of a floating parade of athletes.
"We had an opening ceremony in the open in 2018, at the Youth Olympic Games, and this worked extremely well," Bach told Eurosport. "We had hundreds of thousands of people there in the main avenue in Buenos Aires, around the obelisk, and there was great emotion."
"I turned to Tony Estanguet (head of the Paris 2024 organizing committee) and said I could imagine this in Paris," Bach added. "Tony said it would be very difficult. We kept talking and came back to the idea from time to time. And then Tony said, you know, I need to first consult security, the authorities, but I think it's really a good idea."