From the application, Paris 2024 wanted to offer a more responsible and circular event model, particularly in the use of its resources. If the majority of sports equipment for the Games is rented, those which were purchased with the support of the National Sports Agency (ANS) will be bequeathed to the French sports movement. Thousands of other objects used for the event will also make people happy during the Great Games Sale in September and October 2024.
Sports equipment from the Games bequeathed to the French sports movement
The sports equipment that accompanied the performances and exploits of athletes from around the world at the Paris 2024 Games will have a second life!
Of the 1,2 million pieces of sports equipment necessary for the organization of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, 75% was rented in accordance with the responsible purchasing strategy and the circular economy strategy of Paris 2024. The last quarter was acquired thanks to the financial support from the National Sports Agency (ANS). This purchased equipment will be bequeathed to the French sports movement for the benefit of athletes and sportspeople of all levels.
In line with the strategy defined and validated with the ANS, the CNOSF and the CPSF, the national sports federations identified, via a transparent selection process, the potential beneficiary structures for all the equipment purchased by Paris 2024. After validation of the internal second life commission of Paris 2024 and the ANS, donation agreements have been signed – or are about to be – between Paris 2024 and the federations concerned. Thus, all of the sports equipment will have a second life for already identified sports and association beneficiaries, before the end of the Games.
This reuse program reflects the desire of Paris 2024 to develop access to the practice of physical and sporting activity to the greatest number of people, in particular to populations far from the practice in territories lacking sports equipment, like of Seine-Saint-Denis, 103rd department out of 105 in terms of sports infrastructure.
As examples:
- The French Volleyball Federation (FFVB) will inherit numerous equipment: balls, nets, posts and sports floors. The FFVB will notably make this equipment available to its sports centers across France.
- The French Badminton Federation (FFBaD) will collect equipment for both its Olympic discipline and its Paralympic discipline. In Pays de la Loire, it is the Paralympic movement which will recover a lot of equipment.
- The French Taekwondo Federation (FFTDA) will redistribute sports equipment used during the Olympic and Paralympic Games in numerous clubs in the Paris region, for example the Dugny club (93).
- The sand from the Eiffel Tower stadium, used for beach volleyball events, will be reused to create the equivalent of three courts in the departmental park of Marville (93) and land in Taverny in the Val d'Oise (95).
- After discussions with the French Roller and Skateboard Federation (FFRS), DIJOP and ANS, and with funding from SOLIDEO, the Skateboard Street competition area at Parc Urbain La Concorde and the warm-up area will be relocated to Seine-Saint-Denis after the Games.
- Following a call for expressions of interest launched in 2021, the temporary pools installed at Paris La Défense Arena in Nanterre will be reused in Seine-Saint-Denis, at Sevran (Paris Terres d’Envol) and Bagnolet (East-Together), in a legacy approach financed by Paris 2024, SOLIDEO, the prefecture and the Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis.
The big clearance sales of the Games, new opportunities to treat yourself to a souvenir
Collectors and fans of the Games will be in the starting blocks: clearance sales will be organized throughout France the day after the Paralympic Games to put many souvenir items from the Games on sale.
For the first time in the history of the Games, an organizing committee is relying on these festive and open events to give a second life to thousands of objects: textiles such as uniforms, cups, flags, towels used by athletes, venue decorations and even ceremony products. These souvenirs will be sold at attractive prices.
Calendar of the Great Games Clearance Sale:
- Mulhouse, on 15/09 on the occasion of Mulhousienne
- Puppet, on 22/09 on the occasion of Climate Day
- Rouen, on 22/09, with a dedicated clearance sale
- Nanterre, 05/10 on the occasion of the Trade Festival
- Compiègne, 06/10, on the occasion of Compiègne en Rose
- Rennes, on 12/10, on the occasion of the Tout Rennes Court demonstration
- Vichy, on 13/10, with a dedicated clearance sale
- Carcassonne, on 13/10, with a dedicated clearance sale
New dates in Paris, Reims, Montpellier, Châteauroux and other cities will be announced soon.
A comprehensive strategy for the reduction, rental and reuse of Games physical assets
Donations of sports equipment to the French sports movement and the Grandes Braderies des Jeux are part of the overall circular economy strategy of Paris 2024 to organize a more responsible event.
Temporary infrastructure, furniture, uniforms, sports equipment, food and drinks, technological equipment... Paris 2024 has carried out unprecedented estimation work on the volumes and nature of its assets with the aim of reducing and pooling resources, and master its life cycle, before, during and after the Games.
In this context, 90% of the 6 million assets are deployed, then taken over by Paris 2024 service providers and partners, who are responsible for finding them a second life. For example, Lyreco, Official Supporter of the Paris 2024 Games and supplier of more than 6 pieces of furniture, seized the opportunity of the Games to launch a new second-hand furniture offer. Paris 000 has also committed to finding a second-life solution for the remaining 2024% directly managed by the Organizing Committee.
The entire ecosystem of the Games is mobilizing for a second life with the host communities, the Olympic and Paralympic family and even the major solidarity associations. For example :
- The City of Paris has put in place human and material resources to recover the last equipment when the Paris 2024 sites close, to redistribute them to Parisian associations which work daily with the most vulnerable.
- Certain National Olympic and Paralympic Committees have committed to legacy products and equipment brought for the Games to solidarity associations focused on the most vulnerable populations (Emmaüs, The Red Cross and Secours Populaire Français).
- RGS, Official Supporter of the Paris 2024 Games, will donate more than 50.000 pieces of furniture to the entire Emmaüs Movement, including the Banque Solidaire de l'Equipement, a system supported by Emmaüs Défi, which provides furniture for people in situations of precariousness accessing their first long-term housing.
- Gerflor, Official Supporter and supplier of 33m² of sports flooring for the Paris 000 Olympic and Paralympic Games, will reinstall nearly forty fields in municipalities and clubs, in the Paris region and throughout France.
For certain products and equipment still looking for a second life, Paris 2024 has launched a pre-reservation platform Second life Paris 2024for a professional audience. Gradually put online, these assets can be purchased by the professional public or recovered free of charge by associations and federations.
