Paris bid for 2024 Olympics to be led by athletes and sports officials after failure to land 2008 and 2012 Games

World Rugby chairman Bernard Lapasset (right) and three-time canoeing Olympic champion Tony Estanguet

The head of Paris' proposed bid for the 2024 Olympics wants athletes and sports officials at the front of the candidacy, after much-criticised failures by the French capital to land the games in the recent past.

Bernard Lapasset said Paris bid promoters laid out their vision and an expected budget of $4 billion during a meeting Tuesday with IOC officials in Lausanne, Switzerland, as part of the committee's new invitation phase.

He said 60 per cent to 80 per cent of possible venues have already been built. Paris promoters will meet Wednesday in part to discuss the date for an official announcement of the city's candidacy, which 'we hope will be very soon now,' Lapasset said.

Several dates are being contemplated, including the Bastille Day national holiday on July 14.

A rugby executive who now heads the French Committee for International Sport, Lapasset emphasised a 'new approach' for Paris with sporting officials and athletes at the forefront - not government officials who were more in the lead when Paris lost bids for the 2008 and 2012 Olympics.

If one message differentiates this bid from those failures, Lapasset said, 'it is saying that the sporting world is leading the Paris bid today. That's essential.'

Failed bids by Paris to host the 2008 and 2012 Olympics have been widely criticised

His second message is that 'from the start' those sports leaders have the backing of city, regional and national authorities as well as other partners in France.

'These two major elements underpin the mindset we're bringing to the candidacy for Paris in 2024,' Lapasset said.

He was in Lausanne with three-time canoeing Olympic champion Tony Estanguet, who is also leading the Paris bid.

The deadline for the submission of bids is September 15 and the International Olympic Committee will select the host city in 2017.

Boston, Rome, and Hamburg, Germany are declared bidders, while Budapest and Hungary could still enter the race.