The Legacy and Sustainability plan for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games — 77 AN INITIATIVE ACCELERATED AS A RESULT OF THE GAMES Sports participation in Seine-Saint-Denis The Covid-19 health crisis has highlighted that sport forms an essential element of wellbeing, physical balance and psychological stability, particularly for those hardest hit by the pandemic, including residents of the Seine Saint Denis department. By building and renovating sports facilities and supporting community sports projects, Paris 2024 seeks to promote sport in this department at the heart of the Games. THE 24 SITES IN 24 URBAN AREAS PROJECT WITH THE SEINE-SAINT-DENIS DEPARTMENTAL COUNCIL Devised by the Seine-Saint-Denis departmental council alongside the local sporting movement with financial and communications support from Paris 2024, this project aims to use appropriate and innovative sports taster sessions to encourage physically inactive people to take up sport, as well as promote the use of public spaces for sport, particularly to alleviate overcrowded sports facilities. This project was trialled in summer 2020 with the support of Paris 2024, enabling almost 1,000 people to try out new sports and strengthen ties with local sports facilities. Its roll-out in several urban areas within the department could potentially benefit from the support of the Paris 2024 endowment fund. Additionally, as part of the “Bel été solidaire” cultural and sports line-up in summer 2020, the Seine-Saint-Denis departmental council set up stands in parks across the department to promote the Games and sports participation with the support of Paris 2024 and the involvement of Paris 2024 athletes. It also ran a three-day event to introduce people to new sports on the Games programme and Paralympic disciplines.