Paris 2012 is the name given for the candidature of the city of Paris for the 2012 Summer Olympics after the failure of the Paris 2008 candidature.
Organization
The Paris 2012 Committee
The French National Olympics Committee (French: Le Comité national olympique et sportif français (CNOSF)), the city of Paris, the Ile-de-France region and the State constituted a public interest group called “ Paris-Île-de-France 2012.” Chaired by Bertrand Delanoe, Mayor of Paris, the group has the role of supporting and of promoting the candidature of Paris for the organization of the Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2012, on a national and international scale, by preserving the ideal and the spirit of the Olympic ideal and by respecting the directives provided by the CIO.
The structure of the group makes it possible to associate public and private people. It is composed of:
- Committee founder , which adopts the decisions suitable to ensure the achievement of the objectives of the candidature. It includes Bertrand Delanoe, Jean-François Lamour (Minister for the sports), Jean-Paul Huchon (president of the regional Council of Île-de-France), Henri Sérandour , Bertrand Landrieu , Marie-Claire Restoux , Arnaud Lagardere, Jean-Claude Killy, Guy Drut, Maurice Herzog and Alain Danet .
- Committee Management , which is charged to lead and promote the candidature of Paris 2012. It includes Philippe Baudillon, Essar Gabriel, Armand de Rendinger, Etienne Thobois, Emmanuelle Obligis, Valerie Holzman, Max Bouchet-Virette, Olivier Lenglet, Jerome Lenfant and Paul Pelade.
- Committee of candidature, which takes part in the definition of the policy of the group and determines the strategy of the candidature. It is composed of personalities, with varied competences, the various sensitivities, and of different horizons.
Club des entreprises Paris 2012
The Club des entreprises Paris 2012 is a 1901 association law which has the role of supporting the candidature of Paris 2012. It intends to mobilize, inform and make take part in the candidature all the companies which wish to see France gaining the organization of the 2012 Games. It is chaired by Arnaud Lagardere.
- Supporters official : supporters the companies are official members which pour 1,5 million euros to the profit of Paris 2012. To date 14 groups form part of it: Accenture, Accor, Airbus, Bouygues, Crossroads, Agricultural credit , EDF, France Télécom, Lafarge, Lagardere, the RATP, Renault, Suez and VediorBis .
- Members of the club : all the French companies are invited to make party of the club of the companies against a participation of 1000 euros.
Important Dates
- May 21 2003: Paris' Mayor, Bertrand Delanoe announces official candidature of Paris “Nous requérons l'honneur d'organiser les jeux olympiques de 2012. Nous sommes là pour gagner. [We request the honor to organize the Olympic Games of 2012. We are there to win.]”
- November 2004: a large “pin' S” is installed on Eiffel Tower with the colors of Paris 2012.
- January 6 2005: several monuments and bridges of Paris are lit with the colors of the Olympic rings (green, yellow, red and blue) in the honor of the Parisian candidature: Palate Bourbon which lodges the National Parliament (left bank), the Town Hall of Paris (right bank) and four bridges of the Seine (Marie Bridge , Bridge of the Harmony , Michaelmas Bridge and footbridge Debilly ) will display the logo of Paris 2012 until July 6, 2005.
- March 9 to March 12, 2005: Paris is visited by the IOC Evaluation Commission
- July 6 2005: Nomination of Candidature of the Olympic Games received by the 120 members of the IOC at a ceremony in Singapore.
Candidates' file
Dates
If Paris is indicated, the Games will proceed Friday July 27 at Sunday August 12, 2012. The paralympic Games will be of August 29 at September 16, 2012.
For the candidature of Paris, the committee Paris 2012 drew up a complete project which describes the Olympic village and the 31 sites which would accommodate the jeux.
The Olympic village
The goal is to place the 17.000 athletes and guides under the best conditions in the middle of the Games. The concept of Paris 2012 “one village, two cores” places the Olympic and paralympic village in Paris, at only 6 km from the two cores of sites of competition gathering 80% of the events. The Olympic ways, in the vicinity immediate, will make it possible to guarantee the effectiveness and times of displacement: less than ten minutes to join the cores of sites. It will be placed at the North-East of Paris, in the 17th arrondisement on an industrial waste land belonging to the SNCF .
Sports Sites
The candidature is articulated around two principal cores:
Northern Core
- Stadium of France
- watery center
- SuperDôme (for the gymnastics)
- House 1
- House 2
- House 3
- House 4
- House 5
- House 6
Western Core
- stadium of Roland Garros
- stadium of Park of the Princes
- stadium Jean Bouin
- Dome
- Longchamp
- Catelan Cross
- hippodrome of Auteuil
- House 7
Other sites in Paris
- Eiffel Tower
- Field-of-March
- general sports palate of Paris-Bercy
- bases nautical the Vairy-on-Marne
- cycle-racing track of saint-Quentin-in-Yvelines
- park of saint-Quentin-in-Yvelines
- Castle of Versailles
- center of shooting of Versailles
- sporting center of Doves.
In province
The Other Candidates
The other remaining candidates in string to be chosen by Olympic international committee (CIO) who will take place on July 6 2005 are the cities of London, Madrid, Moscow and New York.
Previous Bids
It is the third time that Paris tries to obtain the Olympic Games.
- In 1985, Barcelona was preferred to it for 1992 Games ; France obtaining with Albertville, the organization of 1992 Winter Games .
- In 2001, it is Beijing which was indicated for 2008 Games ; Paris finishing only 3rd behind Beijing and Toronto (Canada).
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