The competition is over for the Bourget climbing site and the Olympic aquatic center in Saint-Denis. For the Paralympics, the Stade de France in Saint-Denis for the athletics events and the Arena Paris Nord in Villepinte for volleyball remain in the running.
The Paris 2024 teams are hard at work dismantling the temporary infrastructure in the Bourget sports park where the world's best climbers competed. The 6,000-seat stands and the three walls (difficulty, speed and bouldering) will disappear from the horizon. The site, which had been completely rebuilt under the direction of Solideo (Olympic Works Delivery Company), should open to the public in the second half of September, hopes Jean-Baptiste Borsali, mayor (DVD) of Le Bourget.
But practitioners and visitors will not yet have access to the sports park, in its final and definitive version. “The ground slab, on which the temporary site was laid out, will be removed to allow a thousand trees to be planted and to create a central green lung,” explains Jean-Baptiste Borsali.
CAO to open to the public in 2025
In this second phase of the redevelopment expected in 2025, a city stadium and a pétanque court with its clubhouse will be built. They will be added to the new tennis courts, stadium and school group, but also to a major new feature for the city of Le Bourget: the legacy of high-level climbing and bouldering walls designed in the brand new Marie-Paradis gymnasium, used as a warm-up and training area by the Olympic athletes.
The Olympic Aquatic Centre (CAO) in Saint-Denis will not see visitors again until June 2025, when it will open its doors to all. This time, the public will no longer be in the reconfigured stands, but in the pools. The site will offer additional activity areas, including padel courts, a fitness room, climbing walls and a catering area.
The major facility under the project management of the Greater Paris Metropolis will obviously retain its competition vocation, and will host the European Swimming Championships in 2026. While awaiting its major transformation, the CAO is not yet cutting ties with the atmosphere of Paris 2024, since it will host the training of para-swimming and para-triathlon athletes.
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