The suspense around the stadiums which will host the matches of the Olympic tournament ended this Thursday morning during the Paris 2024 board of directors. Toulouse is paying the price for the new, more restricted site map of the OCOG which, in order to achieve savings, had decided to remove a football stadium.
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The Pierre-Mauroy stadium in Villeneuve-d’Ascq is now reserved for the Olympic handball tournament, there were still six candidates in addition to the Parc des Princes in Paris, automatically qualified because it hosts the finals of the tournament: Saint-Étienne, Lyon , Bordeaux, Nice, Marseille, Nantes and Toulouse.
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After a hearing last month in front of the leaders of the OCOG, the local elected officials and those in charge of the installations were impatiently awaiting the verdict of Paris 2024. Toulouse will always be able to console itself with the Rugby World Cup in 2023 and the Occitanie region remains very committed on the Olympic project with the desire to create an Insep des Jeux in Font-Romeu.
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