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PARIS 2024: IOC sponsor Atos declares victory in provision of Olympic and Paralympic access control and information services

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There were many positives to the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games and one of those was in results and information services and support for the volunteer staff processing and accreditation and access control.

No, not absolutely perfect, but clearly excellent, especially with the provision of competition results with almost no downtime.

The coordinator of all of these technical services was Atos, a French-based information technology giant, which has been involved with the International Olympic Committee since 1989 and a TOP sponsor since the 2005-08 quadrennial.

There was lots of chatter that Atos’ corporate financial issues, with the company possibly to be sold, would impact its performance at the Games, but it did not. A restructuring is on the way.

However, in Paris, operations were not impacted and system performance was excellent:

● 233 million unique users of the Paris 2024 Web site, with the schedule of event the most-visited page;

● 18 million downloads of Paris 2024 mobile app and an average of 20 million unique users per day during the Olympic Games;

● 1,026-plus events supported in the Olympic and Paralympic Games, with schedule data, start lists and near-real-time results data;

● 10,000-plus users per day of accredited media and Olympic Family of the MyInfo system;

● 400,000-plus accreditations were issued and managed for the Olympic Games, plus 240,000 for the Paralympic Games;

● 3.7 million accreditation access-control scans were made during the two Games;

● 300,000-plus applications to the Paris 2024 volunteer program were accepted and managed, with 45,000 volunteers eventually selected.

All of this was entered, controlled and accessed from 1,894 on-site workstations, including the television commentator systems.

Patrick Adiba, the chief executive of the Major Events group at Atos, observed:

“Our teams have demonstrated unparallelled dedication and passion to ensure the flawless delivery of the technology for the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 in the Group’s home country. We could not imagine a better setting to showcase our expertise in digital transformation and our dedication to the Olympic Movement over the past 35 years.”

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