One year after the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Ministry of Sports, Youth and Community Life, the French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF), the City of Paris, the Greater Paris Metropolis, and the Department of Seine-Saint-Denis organized an exceptional celebration on July 26, 2025, across several iconic sites of the Olympic legacy.

The President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Kirsty Coventry, was welcomed back to the French capital by the CNOSF President Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, to join in the celebrations commemorating this historic edition of the Games. Joined by IOC Honorary President Thomas Bach, President Coventry took part in a full day of events that honoured the legacy of Paris 2024 and the Games’ transformative impact on the city, the country and the Olympic Movement.

The celebrations began in Paris with an unprecedented parade on the Seine, bringing together more than 100 boats (kayaks, canoes, paddleboards, and dragon boats). Then, on the Pont Saint-Louis, the City of Paris officially unveiled the artistic project selected for the Monument to Champions. This project aimed to build a permanent monument in the heart of Paris that would bear the names of more than 4,000 medalists from the Paris 2024 Games, including the 168 French Olympic medalists. The visit continued towards the Bras Marie, one of the three swimming sites that had opened on July 5, a strong symbol of the Paris 2024 legacy.

The afternoon was dedicated to the metropolitan and popular legacy of the Games:
• At the Olympic Aquatic Centre of the Greater Paris Metropolis, which had opened on June 2, a special free-admission day was held to celebrate the first anniversary of the Paris 2024 Games. On this occasion, the Metropolis opened all its aquatic spaces entirely to the public. A commemorative plaque of the Olympic Rings was unveiled, and the photo exhibition “Empreintes 1914–2024, A New Legacy,” produced with the CNOSF, highlighted a century of Olympic history in France, tracing the link between the 1924 Games and those of 2024.
• At the Georges Valbon Departmental Park in La Courneuve (Seine-Saint-Denis), the Olympic Rings made their symbolic return to a key area in the organization of the Games, at the heart of a program of sports and cultural activities with associations and many local residents. The program also included a visit to the former Terrain des Essences and its new developments made possible by the Games, as well as a skateboard demonstration.