Stade Jean-Bouin, the proposed venue for Rugby Sevens at the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, is set for three days of thrilling sporting action with the penultimate leg of the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Series getting underway tonight at the recently renovated 20,000 capacity stadium.
Stade Jean-Bouin is home to French Top 14 rugby club, Stade Français, and the state-of-the-art venue also hosted the semi-finals, the third-place play-off, and the final of the 2014 Women's Rugby World Cup.
The excitement and anticipation and the festival atmosphere that is set to surround Round 9 of the global championship reaffirms Paris’ status as a major international sports hub with an appetite for Olympic sport and ready-made world-class venues with exceptional hosting experience.
Rugby will make its return to the Olympic Programme for the first time in 92 years at Rio 2016 – the last time Rugby featured in the Games was in Paris in 1924. The contemporary Stade Jean-Bouin also has its own share of Olympic heritage as it is named after Alexandre François Étienne Jean Bouin – a French Olympian who won Silver in the 5,000m at the 1912 Games in Stockholm.
Paris 2024 Co-Chairman, Bernard Lapasset, said:
"This weekend we will see a wonderful festival of sport in an amazing setting and I’m sure the passionate fans will create a special atmosphere. The newly renovated stadium is a fantastic compact venue, perfect for an exciting, free-flowing sport like Rugby Sevens. If Paris is awarded the 2024 Olympic Games, the Rugby Sevens at the Stade Jean-Bouin will be an event not to be missed and we will see exactly why this weekend.
"Paris is one of the world’s most iconic and cosmopolitan cities with ready-made venues offering an incredible live setting and stunning broadcast pictures – the perfect platform to showcase sport. Sport underpins much of our social life in France and our promise is to harness this enthusiasm for sport and help the Olympic Movement to create a new generation of fans globally by offering the best possible platform for Olympic events."
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