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PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS

Paris creates transport pass for Olympic visitors

The Paris public transport operator has put on sale a special transport pass that will allow unlimited travel to all Olympic and Paralympic venues during the Games period.

Published: 17 April 2024 16:20 CEST
Paris creates transport pass for Olympic visitors
Photo by JULIEN DE ROSA / AFP

The regional transport operator Île de France Mobilités announced on Wednesday the creation of a ‘Paris 2024’ travel pass, aimed at visitors, which will allow unlimited travel to all Games venues.

For residents of Paris, there are alternative options during the Olympics.

The ‘Paris 2024′ pass will also allow visitors to get to and from Paris’ Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports – journeys not covered on many standard travel passes or tickets.

Your guide to getting around Paris during the Olympics

The Paris 2024 pass is available now to buy now as a physical card and will go on sale in app form in mid June.

The pass costs €16 for a single day, rising to €70 for a week. The cost of the card itself is a single €2 charge.

Many of the Games venues are in the Paris suburbs – such as athletics at the Stade de France or diving at the aquatics centre – or in locations further out in the Paris region such as the chateau of Versailles (equestrian events) or the Vaires-sur-Marne water park (canoeing).

In transport terms, this means that the standard single zone 1 tickets will not cover the journey.

Transport prices for the Paris Metro, bus, tram and RER network will double during the Games period, although this will not affect locals who already have travel passes or people who have bought tickets in advance.

If you want to buy a physical card, that is available now HERE. You will need to create an account to buy one, even if you already have an Île-de-France Mobilités account.

Organisers say that the card can be delivered by post in 10 days, with up to 50 countries available for delivery including the USA, Australia, UK and Canada.

If you would rather have the pass in digital form, you can wait until June and buy it directly on any smartphone.

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PARIS 2024 OLYMPICS

Paris Olympics organisers deny athletes’ beds are ‘anti-sex’

They may be made of cardboard, but the beds at the athletes' village for this year's Paris Olympics have been chosen for their environmental credentials, not to prevent competitors having sex, organisers said.

Published: 18 May 2024 13:19 CEST
Paris Olympics organisers deny athletes' beds are 'anti-sex'

The clarification came after fresh reports that the beds, manufactured by Japanese company Airweave and already used during the Tokyo 2020 Games, were to deter athletes from jumping under the covers together in the City of Love.

“We know the media has had a lot of fun with this story since Tokyo 2020, but for Paris 2024 the choice of these beds for the Olympic and Paralympic Village is primarily linked to a wider ambition to ensure minimal environmental impact and a second life for all equipment,” a spokesman for the Paris Games told AFP.

The bed bases are made from recycled cardboard, but during a demonstration in July last year Airweave founder Motokuni Takaoka jumped on one of them and stressed that they “can support several people on top”.

The Paris Games spokesman underlined that “the quality of the furniture has been rigorously tested to ensure it is robust, comfortable and appropriate for all the athletes who will use it, and who span a very broad range of body types – from gymnasts to judokas”.

The fully modular Airweave beds can be customised to accommodate long and large body sizes, with the mattresses — made out of resin fibre — available with different firmness levels.

After the Games, the bed frames will be recycled while the mattresses and pillows will be donated to schools or associations.

Athletes will sleep in single beds, two or three to a room, in the village, a newly built complex close to the main athletics stadium in a northern suburb of the capital.

A report this week in the New York Post tabloid entitled “‘Anti-sex’ beds have arrived at Paris Olympics” was reported by other media and widely circulated on social media.

Similar claims went viral before the Tokyo Olympics, sometimes fanned by athletes themselves.

To debunk them, Irish gymnast Rhys McClenaghan filmed a video of himself jumping repeatedly on a bed to demonstrate their solidity.

At those Games, during the coronavirus pandemic, organisers, however, urged athletes to “avoid unnecessary forms of physical contact”.

In March, Laurent Dalard, in charge of first aid and health services at Paris 2024, said around 200,000 condoms for men and 20,000 for women will be made available at the athletes’ village during the Games.

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