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Le Bourget Sport Climbing Venue.

Competition climbing at the 2024 Summer Olympics is scheduled to run from 5 to 10 August at Le Bourget Sport Climbing Venue in Saint-Denis, returning to the program for the second time since the sport's official debut three years earlier in Tokyo 2020. The total number of medal events will double from two in the previous edition, separating the boulder-and-lead tandem from the speed format. Furthermore, Paris 2024 will witness a significant rise in the number of sport climbers competing contrary to Tokyo 2020, expanding the roster size from 40 to 68.

The entry of sport climbing into the Olympic Games, on the program for the second time after Tokyo 2020, reflects what Paris 2024 wishes to create in a more dynamic way for its Games. Highlighting a modern sport, practiced in an area where the population is young, in order to give impetus to its practice by as many people as possible. With the renovation of the Bourget sports complex which accompanies the temporary development of the venue into a competition site for the Games, Seine-Saint-Denis will have, after the Games, equipment that meets its needs and expectations in terms of sports infrastructure.

Six climbing walls will be used during the Games: three walls dedicated to training and warm-up (2 indoors and 1 outdoor) and three walls dedicated to competition, located outdoors.

The gymnasium and its indoor facilities will constitute a lasting legacy of the Games, in a department that is currently largely lacking in terms of sports infrastructure (103rd department out of 105).

Legacy
The indoor facilities erected for the Games will be bequeathed to the town of Le Bourget and can be used on a daily basis by residents, local associations and clubs. The climbing walls temporarily installed could, like the temporary swimming pools of the Games or the urban sports structures of the Place de Concorde, be reused, once the events are completed, in sites to be determined, for the benefit of local populations, clubs and associations.