After Paris 2024, the furniture of the Olympic village sold by Emmaüs in Côte-d'Or

It's a little early Christmas the Emmaüs community of Planay between Montbard and Châtillon-sur-Seine ! Some 200 bedside tables, armchairs and other coffee tables are on sale this Saturday and Sunday. Special feature: this small piece of furniture comes directly from the Paris 2024 Olympic village. This furniture in perfect condition is sold between 12 and 30 euros. Pierre Éliet, head of the Emmaüs community in Planay explains how the Emmaüs community in Planay was able to get their hands on this furniture. “In fact, it was thanks to Emmaüs France which signed partnerships with the entire organization of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the village had to be dismantled quite quickly. All of this was put in large hangars. This furniture was in the rooms, in the apartments. So these are coffee tables, lockers, large poufs. All this ended up in a large platform in Burgundy-Franche-Comté. Planay with two large trucks.

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Did Léna Grandveau, Boladé Apithy or Teddy Riner use this furniture?

In total, 54 thousand pieces were donated to Emmaüs France following the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. This is the first time in the history of games that all this furniture has been recycled, a way of reducing the carbon footprint. It is a very small part of this equipment that the Emmaüs community of Planay is putting on sale this Saturday 30 and this Sunday 1 December 2024. This furniture resembles office or community equipment but perhaps one of they spent three weeks in the company of Leon Marchandof Teddy Riner or Côte-d’Oriens Hector Denayer silver medalist in para-swimming in the 100m breaststroke and bronze in the 200m medley, from **Boladé Apithy, bronze medalist in saber **per team or even Léna Grandveau who spent the money around her neck with the French team handball? “We can't really know, but we can imagine that perhaps these pieces belonged to great athletes and that we will be able to sleep on the mattress of an Olympic medalist” dream Pierre Eliet.

Objects sold from 12 euros

Whatever happens, the prices for this furniture will be very low, promises the manager of the Emmaüs community in Planay. “The bedside tables are 12 euros, the coffee tables around fifteen euros, the armchairs will be a little more expensive at 30 euros. We had to pay for the transport, all that is not not free, everything comes from Paris and we also have to find our way there.” In any case if you go to the sale of this Emmaüs community in the North Côte-d'Or this weekend you will not be able to miss all these objects. “It's very modern equipment, not at all damaged which has only been used for three weeks, it's sure that it will be a little mismatched in our stores with our old grandmothers' furniture that we usually find in our odds and ends”.

Where and at what time?

Faced with the multitude of objects available to Emmaüs communities throughout France, other sales will be organized in Côte-d'Or, promises Pierre Eliet. Moreover, objects have already been sold in the department and other sales have been organized elsewhere in France in the Bouches du Rhône or in the Lot for example. This weekend's sale to the Emmaus community of Planay this Saturday will be between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. 1, rue de la Tonille in Planay and in the Emmaüs store in Châtillon-sur-Seine at 12, rue du Bourg. Same places, same times Sunday.