Paris 2024 Olympics will feature more than two thousand cultural events

Paris (France), Mar 11 (EFE).- More than two thousand projects make up the cultural program that will accompany the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, with an offer that includes everything from urban dance to exhibitions in the great museums of the French capital, such as the Louvre, which will remain open to the public.

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STATEMENTS BY TONY ESTANGUET, PRESIDENT OF PARIS 2024; AMÉLIE OUDÉA-CASTÉRA, FRENCH MINISTER FOR SPORTS; AND RACHIDA DATI, FRENCH MINISTER FOR CULTURE.

1. ESTANGUET:

We all know the importance of culture in this country. So obviously Paris 2024 had to reserve a special place for culture. And I think that since the creation of this momentum around Paris 2024, we have tried, at each stage, to think of the strongest possible place for culture.

2. OUDÉA-CASTÉRA:

It was this link between sport and culture that Pierre de Coubertin wanted to promote at the 2nd edition of the Games, in Paris in 1900, through the Cultural Olympiad. He told us then that his intention was to reunite, through the bonds of a legitimate marriage, 2 former divorcees: the muscle and the spirit. 124 years later, France has chosen to make this union of sport and culture a central dimension of the identity and influence of the Games.

3. DATI:

To carry high our values of universality, parity, diversity, inclusion, respect, but also commitment and excellence that are at the heart of the dialogue between sport and culture. Here again, the entire Cultural Olympiad project consists of offering our fellow citizens a quality program to make the Games a true popular festival.