the shooting and boxing events are moving

Two years before the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the map of sites is still moving: the shooting events are leaving the northern suburbs of Paris, which will host the boxing qualifications in exchange, we learned on Tuesday from the organizers and of the department of Seine-Saint-Denis.

The city of Châteauroux (center) holds the rope for shooting and that of Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis) for boxing, the boxing finals remaining at Roland-Garros. According to the president of the department Stéphane Troussel (PS), this arbitration allows his territory to “pull out of the game”, with boxing which “sticks perfectly to the DNA of Seine-Saint-Denis”, and represents a ” attractiveness for a young public, with a strong practice on the territory and important athletes”.

The “red line” was that the department, where the athletes’ village and the Olympic aquatic center are being built (water polo, synchronized swimming and diving events) does not lose an event, he explained.

These changes were motivated by the concerns encountered on the ground of Essences in La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis), former military ground in the process of being cleared, apparently become too small to house the shooting events.

This land will now serve as the starting point for the paramarathon and the cycling event open to the public, said Mr. Troussel. Other concessions obtained: seated volleyball (handisport) and the pentathlon fencing event which will also be in Seine-Saint-Denis. The revised site map should be presented to the Organizing Committee Board of Directors on July 12.