Thank you for reaching out to adidas regarding a recent article about undocumented migrant construction workers who helped refurbish Paris’s Adidas Arena in the run up to the Olympic Games and remain without papers despite promises of regularization.

adidas holds naming rights for the arena, but we hold no relationship with the municipal authority that owns the building, or the construction company that was commissioned to undertake its refurbishment for the Paris Olympics.

As we have shared previously, adidas was not a sponsor of the Paris Olympics and we had no dealings with the Comité d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de Paris 2024, which used the arena as part of its hosting of the summer games.

We are of course concerned to hear that the migrant workers did not secure the residency permits and health insurance that had been promised to them, but this is a matter that needs to be taken up with the municipal government and the construction company responsible for their employment, in the lead up to the 2024 Olympics Games.