C E R E M E R O N V I A G U Y O E D I D D M E N A H G A L F C I “ PROLOGUE ” P M Y L O EMBARGO The content of this Media Guide is embargoed until the beginning of the Olympic flag Handover ceremony on the 8th of August 2021 at 21:47 (Tokyo time – 14:47 Paris time). 8 AUGUST 2021 8 AUGUST PARIS 2024 N T E N C O T S P.04 P.14 Introduction A live segment between land and sky P.06 “Prologue” P.16 France is ready to welcome the world P.08 La Marseillaise takes over Paris P.18 The contributors P.10 Ride over P.22 the rooftops of Paris A sneak peek of Paris 2024 P.12 The Eiffel Tower as flag bearer “PROLOGUE” © Eric Schaeffer/Getty Images 2 3 PARIS 2024 INTRODUCTION Message from Tony Estanguet, A message from Anne Hidalgo, President of Paris 2024 Mayor of Paris The Games are a relay race in which each host Paris will be in the spotlight in 2024, during the city takes up the baton from its predecessor to Olympic and Paralympic Games – the greatest keep the Olympic and Paralympic flame burning international sporting event of all. Our city will bright around the world. Today, Paris 2024 is welcome athletes, spectators, journalists and honoured to take over from Tokyo, who has fought sport enthusiasts from around the world, and hard to make the athletes’ dreams come true so share with them its history, its art de vivre, its that billions of viewers could enjoy their diversity, its creativity, its world-famous land- performances. Thank you to our Japanese friends! marks and its everyday hangouts. In this relay race, each host country follows a The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games tradition but also tries to do its part to contribute will exhilarate people living in and around the to the evolution of the Olympic and Paralympic capital, who will be able to celebrate sport as a is ar P de movement. Our aim with Paris 2024 is to offer a ie fabulous force for empowerment, hope and air at/M i Gar new model for the Games – one that is exemplary, © Henr shared excitement. As we have always wanted, committed, spectacular, creative and participatory. the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Our goal, in particular, is to bring sport and the will set an ecological example. They will also be Games out of the stadium and into places where steeped in solidarity: there will be a place for they don’t usually go, to reach out to people – in everyone. And these Games are an opportunity the heart of the city, in its museums, in its streets, for our city to take a leap into the future: their in its public squares. That is our message for our extraordinary legacy will transform it in depth. Handover ceremony: we are fortunate enough We look forward to seeing you in Paris in three to have a unique playing field in Paris, one that years’ time, to experience the magic of sport and we will use in the service of sport! celebrate the Olympic and Paralympic values together. We can’t wait to welcome you! “PROLOGUE” ©Rudy Waks 4 5 PARIS 2024 OLYMPIC FLAG HANDOVER CEREMONY Overview – Approximate duration 14:00 21:47 22:00 Beginning of the protocol segment End of the artistic segment 21:49 22:07 Beginning of the artistic segment End of the Closing Ceremony © Paris 2024 of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games “PROLOGUE” PASSING ON THE CARTE BLANCHE FOR OLYMPIC FLAG PARIS 2024: “PROLOGUE” The Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Protocol segment Artistic segment Games opens a new beginning. Approximate duration 02:00 Approximate duration 10:30 On the 8th of August, 2021, the closing of the Tokyo will bear witness to the opening of a new chapter The moment when Tokyo 2020 La Marseillaise 2020 Games will break with history and seamlessly in the great Olympic story, in which each key officially hands over the baton takes over Paris – 03:32 propel hundreds of millions of online and element of the Games is reimagined in order to Paris 2024 is one of the highlights The national flag is raised of the Olympic Games Closing television viewers right into the very heart of to share the Olympic experience with the • Paris. For the first time ever, the Closing Ceremony largest number of people. The first example Ceremony. The Governor of Tokyo, will feature live and spectacular celebrations is this giant Olympic flag, hoisted at the top of Yuriko Koike, hands the Olympic Ride over tthe rooftops from the next Host City as the people of Paris the Eiffel Tower and visible throughout Paris and Flag to the President of Paris – 02:46 and France embrace their role as host of the beyond to herald the arrival of the Games in of the International Olympic • Games of the XXXIII Olympiad in 2024. France. Committee, Thomas Bach who, in turn, entrusts it to the Mayor The Eiffel Tower This media guide introduces the key elements The Handover is an invitation to the world to join of Paris, Anne Hidalgo. as flag bearer – 04:00 of a Handover characterised by audacity and us for a Games experience like no other. freedom. It highlights Paris 2024’s promise to take sport out of its traditional spaces; to open Welcome to Paris 2024! the Games to the city and its people; and to connect with new audiences in new ways. One hundred years after Paris last played host to the Games, the world’s most famous landmarks “PROLOGUE” © Mathieu Rivrin/Getty Images 6 7 PARIS 2024 This journey takes us to all four corners of Paris, to world-famous landmarks and to everyday places where Parisians enjoy hanging out – where Paris’ heart beats. SEGMENT 1 THE RADIO FRANCE AUDITORIUM, STADE DE FRANCE VERT-GALANT SQUARE featuring the National Orchestra of France, A flute solo on the roof of the Olympic A virtuoso string ensemble in a green nook conducted by Chloé Dufresne. stadium that will host the Athletics between Notre-Dame cathedral and Rugby Sevens events. and the Pont-Neuf, a spot where Parisians LA MARSEILLAISE © Jodie Griggs/Getty Images enjoy meeting up, strolling or relaxing. TAKES OVER PARIS Duration 3:32 A MUSICAL JOURNEY IN PARIS LOUVRE MUSEUM LA RECYCLERIE THE SKATEPARK ON SQUARE DIDEROT For the first time in a Handover ceremony, the new host Marimbas by the Winged Victory A piano solo in a former train station skirting IN SAINT-DENIS, ONE OF THE CITIES of Samothrace, one of the French museum’s Paris to the north, which has been upcycled HOSTING THE PARIS 2024 GAMES country’s national anthem will be broadcasted as a best-known attractions. into a testing ground for eco-responsible Percussionists mingle with amateur athletes film shot entirely in the future Host City. This segment lifestyles and a rendezvous in a spot between the Stade de France for the neighbourhood’s people. and Paris 2024’s headquarters. will take hundreds of millions of viewers on a tour of Paris and will treat them to a deep dive into the City of Lights to the tune of a reorchestrated version of La Marseillaise. The musicians performing in six different spots in and around Paris evoke what the world has experienced over the past several months. The message is that, even though Reorchestration we are apart, we can join forces and play together. and arrangement Victor Le Masne …AND ALL THE WAY TO SPACE Performed by Thomas Pesquet, the European space agency’s French astronaut, plays NOTE National Orchestra a few notes of La Marseillaise on the saxophone from the International This version of La Marseillaise is a gentler reorchestration of of France, conducted Space Station, facing Japan, to wrap up this scene. the revolutionary war song extolling freedom, written by by Chloé Dufresne Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in 1792. Paris 2024 chose to revisit the national anthem with a more unifying, more universal Special guest touch. This reorchestrated version is performed by the National Orchestra of France and includes distinctly contemporary Thomas Pesquet arrangements. Victor Le Masne, a French composer, producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist, created this new version Learn more, see pages 21 and 22 with notes that point to hope and to infinity. “PROLOGUE” 8 9 SEGMENT 2 This film shows Paris from every angle. PARIS 2024 RIDE OVER THE ROOFTOPS OF PARIS Duration 2:46 THE CITY’S ZINC ROOFTOPS L’HÔTEL DE LA MONNAIE CLAUZEL CARPARK SITUATED are part of its distinctive architectural heritage, The heroine’s journey starts on the roof ON PLACE SAINT-GEORGES and have inspired painters, photographers, of the building that houses the Paris Mint The BMX freestyle team members poets, songwriters, filmmakers and countless (France’s longest-standing institution) perform tricks on a rooftop other artists through the ages, from Vincent and the Musée de la Monnaie. in Paris’ 9th arrondissement. Van Gogh and Robert Doisneau, to the up-and-coming generation of athletes. SPORT IN THE HEART OF THE CITY The Handover Ceremony continues with a second film NOTE taking audiences over Paris’ characteristic rooftops. The cast of athletes The BMX team has six members, including the We set out following in the tracks of a female BMX rider. film’s star, Estelle Majal, a young BMX Freestyle champion in the making and member of Pôle Something unusual catches her eye, she decides to check France.