Sports Festival: program, times, locations, athletes... Everything you need to know about the event in Paris and the Ile-de-France region
The first edition of the Fête du Sport takes place on Sunday, September 14th throughout France. More than 5,000 events are offered across the country and 515 in the Île-de-France region. In Paris, Rue de Rivoli will become the "Boulevard du Sport."
By Le ParisienThere was June 21st and the Fête de la Musique, which celebrated its 43rd edition in 2025. Now there will be September 14th with the Fête du Sport. For its very first edition, this Sunday, September 14th, the entire country will celebrate sport like never before. One year ago today, Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of a national sports festival.
A way to maintain the legacy left by the Paris 2024 Games. The President of the Republic also saw it as an opportunity to encourage regular sporting activity, a major national cause to combat a sedentary lifestyle.
"The Fête du Sport is the new major event we are giving the French people to get together every year at the end of summer," said Marie Barsacq, Minister of Sports, Youth and Community Life. "In 2025, it will be the occasion to celebrate the first anniversary of the Paris Games. As we head back to school, the Fête du Sport will celebrate everything that sport and physical activity bring to our daily lives: physical and mental well-being, self-confidence, respect for others, a taste for sharing, and a spirit of solidarity."
This Sunday marks the realization of this idea with more than 5,000 events throughout France. In the Île-de-France region alone, organizers have identified 515 events, including 48 in Paris. The program includes introductions to and introductions to sports and wellness activities, and meetings with champions.
Among them, six will be the captains of this first edition of the sports festival. The organizers have chosen Gloria Agblemagnon (Paralympic shot put champion in Paris), Arthur Bauchet (Paralympic alpine skiing champion in Beijing in 2022), Désiré Doué (the PSG player who won a silver medal in Paris), Florent Manaudou (Olympic champion in London in 2012), Marie Patouillet (Paralympic paracycling champion in Tokyo and Paris), and finally Marie-José Pérec (the three-time Olympic champion in Barcelona and Atlanta).
The highlights of this national sports festival will take place in Paris. Starting with Rue de Rivoli, which will be renamed "Boulevard du Sport" for one Sunday between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m.
Over approximately 2 km, from Concorde to City Hall, practice and demonstration areas will be offered to the public, as well as meetings with athletes and inclusive activities.
This event is led by the Ministry of Sports, Youth and Community Life with the CNOSF and the CPSF and the support of the city of Paris and the European Commission, mobilizing more than 48 sports federations.
At the end of this national day, around 8:30 p.m., the Paris 2024 Cauldron will shine one last time, before symbolically going out, marking the end of a summer of celebrations dedicated to the first anniversary of the Games.
Still in Paris, at the Grenelle basin (Paris XVe) from 6 p.m., the EDF "Savoir Nager" operation will allow around twenty children aged 12 to 14 to learn how to swim, accompanied by French swimming figures such as Alain Bernard, Maxime Grousset and Florent Manaudou.
Still at the same venue starting at 7 p.m., a swimming event , the Open EDF sur Seine, will see French stars compete in a legendary 100m in the Seine. We will see Laure Manaudou, Florent Manaudou, Camille Lacourt, Alain Bernard, Malia Metella, Yohann N'Doye-Brouard, Charlotte Bonnet, Jordan Coelho, and Maxime Grousset.
In the rest of the Île-de-France region, it will also be a party. In the 92 department (67 events), the Creps de Châtenay-Malabry will offer various activities from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., such as introductions and sports demonstrations in judo, plum football, field hockey, lifesaving, handball, wheelchair handball, beach handball, beach flag, etc.
In the 93 (47 events), the Saint-Denis aquatic center offers activities ranging from padel to yoga to climbing, without forgetting of course aquatic activities such as diving or aquabiking.
In the 94 (43 events), Bonneuil-sur-Marne will honor the 13 socio-sports educators of Val-de-Marne through sports, cultural and musical workshops, with a village of events in the green spaces, organized by the social centers of Petit-Ivry and Bonneuil-sur-Marne.
In the outer suburbs, the 77 department (92 events) is hosting a large sports village in Jablines on the themes of health and sport and sustainable development. Around twenty stands (team sports, water sports, nature sports, Olympic sports and emerging sports) will be available to all for sports initiations, fitness tests, environmental and sustainable development awareness, and disabled sports awareness.
In the 78 with 94 activities, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye , the Departmental Service for Youth, Engagement and Sports (SDJES) offers from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Camp des Loges the discovery of numerous sports disciplines adapted to all ages and all levels: wheelchair basketball workshops, blind football, flag football, fencing, archery, athletics, rugby, field hockey, rowing, cycling, boccia,
In the 91 (72 events), the Piscine d'en Face in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois will present four thematic villages from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.: health sports, disabled and adapted sports, traditional sports and commitment.
Finally, in the 95 (52 projects), at Athletica d'Eaubonne , from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m., 24 sports initiations to try or discover a 3 x 3 basketball tournament, and a concert with DJ from 8 p.m.
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