” All together ” : by presenting, Tuesday November 21, on the occasion of the opening of the mayors’ show in Paris, what the great national cause 2024 should consist of, launched on the occasion of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (JOP) and dedicated to physical and sporting activity, the Minister of Sports and JOPs called for the mobilization of those who are the primary actors in supporting sport.
“All together, we will bring to life [l’]unifying momentum [des Jeux] everywhere, thanks to multiple tools and highlights. All together, we will build a lasting legacy, material and intangible, by putting more sport in the lives of our fellow citizens. All together, we will amplify and expand this legacy through our mobilization during the Great National Cause 2024,” launched Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.
If they rather favorably welcome this request for ” to support ” this initiative throughout 2024, local elected officials nevertheless return to the government its call for mobilization through a message that could be summarized in one: “together, but more strongly”.
Way of telling the State that it must do more alongside them to co-finance the construction – but also the renovation – of sports equipment, presented as an essential support for this practice of physical and sporting activity, and without which the slogan “30 minutes, move”, associated with this great cause, could produce little effect.
Requests for aid that exceed available means
Municipalities, which are the main sources of financing for sports practice, have for years pointed out a stock of sports infrastructures that are aging or often missing in many places.
In this context, local elected officials consider as a good thing the new renovation-construction plan for 5,000 pieces of equipment in three years (Generation 2024 plan for the years 2024 to 2026) presented by the government in September, which will follow on from the plan creation of 5,000 so-called local facilities (multi-sport areas, 3 × 3 basketball courts, skate parks, etc.), implemented in 2022 and 2023.
However, these same elected officials consider that this will not be sufficient, whether it concerns local facilities and, above all, so-called structuring facilities (gyms, swimming pools, etc.). “For local equipment, aid will decrease since we will go from 100 million euros per year with the current plan, to 40 million euros per year with the Generation 2024 plan”notes Vincent Saulnier, secretary general of the National Association of elected officials in charge of sport (Andes).
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