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PARIS OLYMPICS GUIDE

Sign up for all the practical guides you need about the Paris Olympics

Will you be in Paris for the Olympics or Paralympics this summer? If so, then sign up below for our new weekly newsletter, which will give you all the practical guides you need - including insider tips on travel, logistics, tickets and accommodation.

Published: 13 February 2024 11:18 CET
Updated: 17 February 2024 11:32 CET
Sign up for all the practical guides you need about the Paris Olympics
The Paris 2024 Olympics mascot, the Phrygian cap, symbol of revolutions, the French Republic and freedom. Or does it really represent something else? Photo by Bertrand GUAY / AFP

The Local’s Paris-based staff are getting pretty excited about the Games, and we’re also looking forward to sharing insider tips about the city with some of the estimated 10 million people who will be visiting.

Between now and the Games, we’ll be looking at topics including travel, accommodation, places to visit, money-saving tips, impact of strikes and much more.

Meanwhile if you’re already in Paris, we can help with information such as how to avoid extra transport fees, which areas of the city to avoid and how to register your apartment on Airbnb, if you fancy making some extra cash.

We’ll also be looking at the latest Games specific information from where to find the fan-zones to how to use the ticket website and explaining some of the figures from French history and culture that you’re likely to encounter during the event.

We’ll be sending out a weekly newsletter putting together a Paris Olympics Guide section HERE and we’re also available to answer questions from subscribers.

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So welcome to Paris and Games Wide Open (the official slogan, it sounds better in French – Ouvrons Grand les Jeux, which is a pun on Ouvrons Grand les Yeux or Eyes Wide Open).

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CULTURE

Keep-fit in the Louvre: Museum offers Olympic sessions among masterpieces

The Louvre museum in Paris announced plans to organise yoga and sport sessions in its galleries as part of a city-wide cultural programme ahead of the Olympics.

Published: 24 April 2024 09:11 CEST
Keep-fit in the Louvre: Museum offers Olympic sessions among masterpieces

The world’s biggest museum is to offer visitors the chance to take part in dance, yoga and work-out sessions while gazing upon its world-renowned paintings and sculptures.

The announcement was one of several on Tuesday aimed at whipping up Olympic enthusiasm ahead of the start of the Games in Paris on July 26th.

“The Louvre is physically in the centre of Paris. It will be physically at the centre of the Olympic Games,” museum chief Laurence des Cars told reporters.

Details of the special sessions and the museum’s new Olympics-themed exhibition are available on its website.

The opening ceremony is set to take place on the river Seine which runs past the Louvre. A temporary stadium to host the skateboarding and breakdancing is being built on the nearby Place de la Concorde. The Olympic flame is also set to burn in the neighbouring Tuileries gardens, a security source told AFP.

Four other art destinations, including the Musee d’Orsay, the home of impressionist masterpieces, are also set to put on Olympic-related sports or cultural activities.

Paris City Hall unveiled plans for public sports facilities, concerts and open-air fan areas around the City of the Light for the duration of the Olympics and Paralympics.

A total of 26 fanzones will be created around the capital, in addition to two special celebration areas in central and northeastern Paris, where medal winners will be encouraged to greet the public.

“For the first time in the history of the Games, the host city is aiming to create a people’s Games where Olympic enthusiasm can be shared at both the event sites but also outside of the stadiums, in the heart of the city, in each district,” the mayor’s office said in a statement.

A new Olympic transport mobile phone application was also made available for the first time on Tuesday by the regional transport authority.

Visitors to Paris will be encouraged to use the “Transport public Paris 2024” app, which will guide them to Olympic destinations using real-time information on traffic and user numbers.

The developers said that suggested routes would not necessarily be, “the shortest or the quickest”, but would be the most suitable and ensure that travellers have a choice of different transport options.

Overcrowding on the Paris underground train network is a particular concern ahead of the Games, while local politicians have urged Parisians to walk or use bikes.

The first Olympics in Paris in 100 years are set to take place from July 26th to August 11th followed by the Paralympics from August 28th to September 8th.

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