Paris 2024: city celebrates Olympic Day with a host of sporting events on 23 and 24/06/2017

The Olympic Day, celebrated on the 23^rd of June every year, the anniversary of the creation of the IOC (on 23/06/1894 in the great amphitheater of La Sorbonne in Paris, France), has become, for the 2017 edition in Paris, "a two-day celebration," said the City of Paris on 20/06/2017.

Organised on Friday 23 and Saturday 24/06/2017, "the heart of Paris will be transformed into a gigantic sports park to celebrate Olympic Day and support the city’s candidature for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games", explained the municipality, who co-organises the event with the Paris 2024 Bid Committee, the CNOSF, the French Ministry of Sports, and the Ile-de-France Region.

"For two days, the public will have the chance to share their passion for sport in the largest sports park ever designed in the heart of a city. Stretching from the Eiffel Tower to Notre Dame along the River Seine, the giant celebration zone will offer the chance to sample more than 30 disciplines against the spectacular backdrop of Paris’ iconic landmarks: A floating athletics track on the Seine, sports fields on the lawn of…