Olympics 2024: e-Scooters not dead yet in Paris

Although Parisians voted to ban trottinettes, aka e-scooters, the operating companies involved are not giving up just yet. Lime, Dott and Tier are petitioning the International Olympic Committee (IOC), to reuse the nearly 15,000 micro-mobility vehicles for the upcoming 2024 Summer Olympics being held in Paris.

“Lime remains steadfast in our commitment to the citizens of Paris to demonstrate innovative solutions to personal mobility,” Lime CEO Wayne Ting stated. “We believe that e-scooters not only provide a valuable urban mode of micro-mobility, they also can enable human athleticism and creativity. For this reason Lime along with ecosystem partners Dott and Tier are proposing various options to the IOC to reuse the e-scooters for the Paris 2024 games.”

IOC President Thomas Bach added, “We welcome ideas that advance the Olympic experiences according to the motto, Citius, Altius, Fortius – Communiter,” or Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together in English.

Some of the proposals included e-scooters being repurposed for Paris 2024 as inter Olympic Village transport, participation gift bag items for the 10,000+ athletes and various demonstration events. E-scooter advocates are hoping that the proposed demonstration events generate new e-scooter fans similar to the rise in popularity of snowboarding when it was added to the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.

Veteran Olympic broadcaster, Bob Costas, chimed in that the most interesting events with repurposed e-scooters could be:

• Scooter Big Air
• Scooter Freestyle
• Scooter Park
• Scooter Street
• Scooter track racing
• Scooter road time trials