Five metro stations will be closed from midday in parallel with the grand parade of Olympic and Paralympic athletes taking place this Saturday, September 14 on the Champs-Élysées.
The final act of the Games. Due to the parade of French athletes who participated in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, some RATP metro stations will be closed and inaccessible from noon this Saturday, September 14.
In total, five stops will not be served on the metro and RER:
- Charles de Gaulle – Étoile (lines 1, 2, 6 and RER A)
- Franklin D.Roosevelt (ligne 1)
- George V (line 1)
- Argentina (line 1)
- Trocadero (line 6)
The reopening of these stations will take place once authorization is given by the Paris police prefecture, RATP indicates. Given that a live concert will be held on the Place de l’Étoile until midnight, the closures could remain in place until Sunday morning.
70,000 spectators expected
Some 70,000 spectators and nearly 300 athletes are expected this Saturday to celebrate the sports heroes who made the French dream this summer. The “champions parade” will be, according to the organizers, like a fifth ceremony.
“It’s to take a little extra. That’s exactly how I took the subject and proposed it,” says Thierry Reboul, who wants to “give some ingredients of what we’ve been doing for two months” to this “obligatory, somewhat sacred passage of the athletes who come to parade on the Champs.”
The event will take place in three stages. The parade itself will begin at 4 p.m. For two hours, volunteers, Olympic and Paralympic Games stakeholders (staff members, members of the organization, etc.) and then Olympic and Paralympic athletes will parade along the Champs-Elysées.
This first moment should last two hours. The French judo team and the Blues of rugby 7s as well as Léon Marchand and the Lebrun brothers have already confirmed their presence.
The end of the parade, scheduled for 6 p.m., will be followed by institutional speeches that will open the protocol sequence. This should begin 1 hour 30 minutes later, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. On the program: rekindling of the flame at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, then a decoration award ceremony to the medal-winning athletes and para-athletes by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron on the Place de l’Étoile.
There will then be an hour’s break before the start, at 9 p.m., of the concert at the Place de l’Étoile. Chris, Cerrone and Amadou and Mariam are expected to definitively close the Parisian Olympic page.
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