The Toulouse Stadium during the Ligue 2 match between Toulouse and Dunkirk, August 22, 2020. -

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Toulouse will not have long to wait to know if it will win a small piece of the Olympic Games in Paris, in 2024. It is during the month of December that the Cojo (Organizing Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games) will give the names of the seven sites selected to host the women's and men's football tournaments.

The town hall formalized its candidacy on Friday, highlighting its experience and its recent "prize list": "city with the largest number of sports facilities per capita in 2015" and "city elected the most welcoming of the competition by supporters of Euro 2016 ”.

⚽️ @Toulouse submitted its file to host the # JO2024 # Paris2024 women's and men's #football matches at the Stadium and applied for the # TerreDeJeux2024 label to provide Toulouse residents with 4 years of life to the rhythm of the Games and #sport 👉🏻 https: //t.co/SzfhSjpb1y pic.twitter.com/KBU9iToc2J

- Toulouse City Hall 🇫🇷 (@Toulouse) November 6, 2020

The information may seem curious to some and some hypermnesics: in the wake of the award of the 2024 Olympics in Paris, on September 13, 2017, Toulouse and its mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc proclaimed their pride to be one of the nine cities selected to host each seven to eight matches of the male and female football tournaments.

Eight sites for seven places

However, the health crisis linked to Covid-19 has gone through this.

It forced Paris 2024 to revise its budget downwards and to reorganize the events.

Last September, the number of sites to host football matches was thus reduced to seven, hence the need to launch a new call for applications.

There are only eight postulants left (Nice, Nantes, Bordeaux, Paris, Lyon-Décines, Marseille, Saint-Étienne, Toulouse).

Lille is no longer in the running: in 2024, its Pierre-Mauroy stadium will be used in Arena mode to host basketball, volleyball or handball.

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