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presidential visit to Seine-Saint-Denis next Thursday

Emmanuel Macron, the President of the Republic, will travel next Thursday to Seine-Saint-Denis to visit various sites dedicated to the 2024 Olympic Games. The Prime Minister and six members of the government are also expected at the Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games and Paralympics.

This presidential trip is dedicated to the “preperation“of the Olympics,”the question of their heritage as well as the place of sport and sports practice in our countrys”, communicates the presidency.

First meeting: Tremblay-en-France and a visit to a new city-stadium. “The opportunity to take stock of the deployment of local sports infrastructure”, according to the Elysée. Seine-Saint-Denis remains a department that is under-endowed with infrastructures dedicated to sports.

During a ceremony in honor of the medalists of the Tokyo Games on September 13, he indicated that he would announce “in the coming weeks a massive plan for local sports facilities“, evoking “several thousand basketball courts“, from “dojos”, des “skateparks“, from “swimming pools“.

He will then move to the Olympic Village site in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine, to “a progress report on the progress of the project and the proper implementation of the environmental and social performance clauses“.

Emmanuel Macron will finally go to the headquarters of the Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (OCOG), in Saint-Denis, in the company of Prime Minister Jean Castex, ministers Jean Michel Blanquer (Education and Sports), Barbara Pompili (Ecological transition ), Elisabeth Borne (Work), Roxana Maracineanu (Sports), Emmanuelle Wargon (Housing) and Sophie Cluzel (Handicap).

Emmanuel Macron has set the French sports world the objective of aiming for 80 medals in 2024, much more than the 33 obtained at the Tokyo Olympics, so that France is in the Top 5 in the world.

A charity football match

This same Thursday, at the end of the afternoon, Emmanuel Macron, a declared fan of OM, will put on his crampons. He is expected in Poissy in the Yvelines to participate in the gala match marking the 50th anniversary of the Variétés Club de France.

The match will be played against the team of caregivers of the intercommunal hospital center of Poissy Saint Germain-en-Laye. The recipe is intended for the Fondation Hôpitaux de Paris-Hôpitaux de France, chaired by Brigitte Macron.

Laurent Blanc, Christian Karembeu and Robert Pires, the former Blues Alain Giresse and Dominique Rocheteau, or the tennis player Richard Gasquet are announced.

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