MORE SPORT IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES AND IN THE HEART OF CITIES MORE SPORT IN SEINE-SAINT-DENIS: PARIS 2024 GAMES BACKING THE DEPARTEMENT’S SWIMMING POOL PLAN Like the Olympic Aquatic Centre, a huge water sports complex that the whole country has been eagerly anticipating for more than ten years, five new swimming pools will be built or renovated in Seine-Saint-Denis, along with six gyms and sports centres. In this département, where 1 child out of 2 entering secondary school does not know how to swim, the Games will provide new momentum for swimming education. The mobilised public funding (the State, the City of Paris, the Ile-de-France region, the Greater Paris metropolitan authority, the Département of Seine-Saint-Denis, the Plaine Commune) will contribute to the installation of new swimming pools that will be created or renovated. Paris 2024 and the Agence Nationale de la Cohésion des Territoires (National Agency for Territorial Cohesion) are supporting and providing funding for cities with the "Terre de Jeux 2024" label in their efforts to ESTABLISH ‘ACTIVE DESIGN’ of urban public spaces, that promote and FACILITATE DAILY EXERCISE AND SPORTS PARTICIPATION through urban design (recreational urban furniture, floor markings, upgrading of stairs, urban lighting. This programme, which promotes the tangible and intangible legacy of the Games, will benefit 100 towns and cities from the Action Cœur de Ville network that have also signed up to the "Terre de Jeux 2024" initiative. Paris2024 VenhoevenCS - Ateliers234 - Proloog © Studio MDF/Shutterstock.com PARIS 2024 OPEN GAMES PARIS 2024 35