2024-03-06 21:00:49
The only sports site built sustainably with a view to the Paris 2024 Games, the Olympic Aquatic Center was delivered a month in advance by the Métropole du Grand Paris, a major player in this unique project carried out opposite the Stade de France in Saint -Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis).
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DFor just over 140 days, the Olympic Aquatics Center will be at the heart of the celebrations for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
By hosting the synchronized swimming and diving events, as well as most of the water polo preliminary tournament matches – whose team distribution tables were recently revealed by World Aquatics – the largest equipment now dedicated to swimming in France will inevitably be at the Olympic event.
While France waited years for the arrangement of such an infrastructure And this, by betting in vain on the legacy of Paris’ successive candidacies to organize the Gamesobtaining the 2024 edition then the gradual construction of the Olympic Aquatic Center in Saint-Denis have made it possible to create a certain dynamic which will benefit in fine to the entire local territory and its inhabitants.
Department particularly lacking in pools for learning and practicing swimming – especially among schoolchildren – Seine-Saint-Denis will indeed benefit from the momentum generated by this major project to catch up somewhat in terms of spaces dedicated to aquatic sports.
Several basins have already been delivered or are in the process of being delivered, illustrating in fact the aquatic legacy of Paris 2024.
Thus, the department will record no less than 39 pools by the end of the yearthanks in particular to the installation of five pools in the heart of the new Marville aquatic centerthe development of two basins on the Fort d’Aubervilliers sitebut still five pools in Aulnay-sous-Boiswithout forgetting of course the creation of three pools for the Olympic Aquatics Center.
Interior view of the Olympic Aquatic Center of Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, in March 2024 (Credits – Métropole du Grand Paris)This Wednesday, March 6, 2024, the Greater Paris Metropolis announced the delivery of the imposing site after a series of regulatory inspections.
So, after the waterworks of the structure at the end of 2023the four prefectural Commissions provided for by the Construction and Housing Code for establishments open to the public – fire safety, public safety and security, accessibility for people with reduced mobility and sports approval – visited the site before giving an unreserved favorable opinion on the opening of the site.
As the President of the Greater Paris Metropolis and Mayor of Rueil-Malmaison, Patrick Ollier, announced today:
The immense pride that the Greater Paris Metropolis has today is certainly to have started from nothing, but to have brilliantly taken up this immense challenge which was only possible with the help of the State, the Olympic Works Delivery Company, the group of companies led by Bouygues Bâtiments, and the teams from the Métropole du Grand Paris as project owner.
The “handing over of the keys to Paris 2024” is taking place one month ahead of the initial schedule.
Together, we were creative, agile and economical, to create sports equipment that rivals architectural, environmental and energy innovations..
Now, with the competition of the official supplier Myrtha Poolsthe three pools of the Olympic Aquatic Center will guarantee the training and competitions of the athletes who will be mobilized in the monumental setting designed as a true architectural signature with a length of 114 meters by a width of 106 meters and a maximum height of 30 meters, that like model equipment in terms of eco-responsibility.
Equipped with a unique central pool, the structure has more than 147 million euros financed partly by SOLIDEO and partly by the metropolitan authorityhas a system of two movable walls 2.3 meters deep in order to adapt the site according to needs and uses.
During the Games, a main 50-meter pool will be used for water polo and synchronized swimming events, while a 22-by-25-meter pool will be positioned under the diving boards installed with their backs to the huge bay window facing at the neighboring Stade de France.
If during the Olympic festivities, up to 5,000 spectators will be able to take their seats for each session in the stands under the astonishing concave shaped wooden framethe capacity of the site will however be reduced to less than 3,000 places after the departure of the Olympic delegations, in order to limit the costs relating to maintenance and energy management, partly offset by the installation of photovoltaic panels on the roof of the building. the work.
This significant drop in the capacity of the site built by a group led by Bouygues Building Île-de-Francewith the support and assistance of the firms Workshops 2/3/4/ with VenhoevenCS and the technical design office Schlaich Bergermann & Partnermay however be revised in the event of major sporting competitions being held, such as the 2026 European Swimming Championships, recently won by France.
View of the Olympic Aquatic Center of Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, in March 2024 (Credits – Métropole du Grand Paris)But beyond the sole aquatic vocation, the Center of Saint-Denis will above all constitute a new place of life as the surrounding district develops around the ZAC project. Saulnier Plain.
Déjà, the pose et the inauguration of a crossing footbridge leading to the Stade de France square foreshadowed spring 2023 the future face of this developing sector where the aforementioned ZAC should ultimately be deployed over an area of 12.5 hectares.
At the heart of this important urban and landscape regeneration, the Olympic Aquatic Center will fully play its role with, in addition to hosting major sporting events, high-level courses and the organization of swimming and diving learning sessions. , the possibility for the public to indulge in other disciplines on site and to benefit from quality services.
In fact, with the dismantling of the temporary stands, the site may be able to accommodate a climbing wall and various multi-sport fields (padel / tennis, five-a-side football, etc.) according to the plans presented in 2020. A These facilities, a skate park should also be created outdoors near the square, as well as a restaurant and a recycling center to allow all practitioners to come and have sports equipment repaired.
In addition to sport, cultural events could also take place within the Olympic Aquatics Center and its surroundings which now illustrate the urban transformation made possible with the imminent arrival of the Games.
In view of the global event, the French diving team will in any case be able to familiarize themselves with the equipment from this Thursday March 7, 2024.
During the next three weeks – more precisely until April 1 – the French divers will in fact discover the site of their possible exploits before taking up residence there after the Games.
Starting next month, the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee (COJO) will, however, take control of the ship until the end of the summer. It will then be time to configure the site in the colors of the event and for the arrival of hundreds of thousands of spectators.
As OCOG President Tony Estanguet enthusiastically affirmed:
After the Athletes Villageit is with great emotion that we will receive the keys to the Olympic Aquatic Center.
What pride to see this magnificent equipment delivered by the Métropole du Grand Paris, moreover a month before the forecast date!
The only long-term sports facility built for the Games and the artistic swimming, diving and water polo events, the Olympic Aquatics Center will be a mecca for swimming.
[…] Congratulations to the Métropole du Grand Paris for this excellent work, and for its commitment to the success of the Games!
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