At the time of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Greater Paris Sports Atlas paints a portrait of sports practices and facilities on a metropolitan scale.
The atlas reflects the dynamic development that has been underway since 2020, with 691 sports facility projects, including 134 new constructions such as the Olympic Aquatic Center and the Porte de la Chapelle Arena, and the renovation of 349 facilities, complemented by a growing number of small-scale private venues and an increase in public sports activities. These developments reinforce a rich and diverse offering that now includes 2,078 structuring facilities, 975 private facilities, 2,043 school sports facilities and large natural sites and public spaces suitable for free practice, with in particular the reopening of bathing sites in the Seine that had been banned since 1923.
An analysis of the practices of metropolitan residents also reveals the most popular running and cycling sites, the number of members in the main sports, inequalities in access by gender or age group, and the 8,800 sports clubs.
The atlas has been divided into six sections to give a better understanding of the diversity of this sporting metropolis:
- dynamics and legacy of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games,
- plurality and geography of facilities,
- growth of private sports facilities,
- free practice and large natural sites, increasingly popular,
- animation and promotion of physical and sporting activities,
- panorama of 24 sporting practices in 2024.
