The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will also take place in Marseille, but don’t say it too loudly. At the beginning of July, elected officials from Marseille were worried that the Stade Vélodrome could present the inscription “Paris 2024”. What the mayor of the capital, Anne Hidalgo, reacted to on Monday on the sidelines of a press conference dedicated to the places of “celebrations” of the Olympic Games.
“If Paris had not been the host city of the Games, if instead of meeting there around Paris, if it had been Marseille 2024, well I would have loved to write Marseille 2024 in the heart of the Parc des Princes”, launched the PS mayor. The Paris Olympics Organizing Committee had explained that it “will be (it) quite possible not to put” Paris2024 “on the exterior cap of the Vélodrome while putting the stadium in the colors of the look of the Games”.
Tony Estanguet repeated it on Monday: “There was never any question of putting a ‘Paris 2024’ name on all the sites. There is a misunderstanding on the Velodrome, we are not going to change the naming of this stadium. The Old Port is breathing a lot.