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Launch of Paris 2024 bid at Dora Maar school

Paris is competing against Los Angeles and Budapest to host the 2024 Summer Olympics. Today it got down to the serious business of promoting its bid and chose to kick off at a school in the town of Saint Denis just north of Paris: home to the stade de France football stadium and the planned olympic village.

Tony Estanguet (debout au centre) et Teddy Riner à droite de la photo, lors du lancement de Paris 2024.
Tony Estanguet (debout au centre) et Teddy Riner à droite de la photo, lors du lancement de Paris 2024. Alison Hird/RFI
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Tony Estanguet, former canoe slalom champion and Paris 2024 co-chairman (photographed here with judo ace Teddy Riner) talked to RFI's Alison Hird about why young people are at the heart of the bid.

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