Security forces, gauge, rehearsals: the security protocol of the opening ceremony presented

Tony Estanguet, boss of the COJO, did not fail to recall, on Tuesday in Beauvau, that the opening ceremony on July 26 on the Seine, is the ” main scorer of the 2024 Paris Games “. The three-time Olympic canoe champion (C 1) clarified that 91 boats will be mobilized for the parade of delegations and 25 reserve boats. “ Paris 2024, after agreement from the IOC, undertakes to pool the maximum number of boats between several delegations, with the aim of reducing the volume and length of the athlete transport fleet », Specifies the security protocol. ” We will have worked for five years on this security system and the significant financial resources. We could not organize such a ceremony without the mobilization of all actors and the State thanked Tony Estanguet, specifying that the committee needed 2,000 to 3,000 security guards on the lower platforms.
Several rehearsals are scheduled between now and July 26, starting with a ” partial repetition and without pengers “July 17” over a period of eight hours “says the document. Other tests are planned for the spring of 2024 as well as ” two days of dress rehearsal for the river parade the week before the opening ceremony, ahead of the safety inspection operations “.