Quand la ville décide de soutenir les événements sportifs commerciaux et compétitifs : les déterminants de l’action concertée à Paris

When the city decides to support commercial and competitive sport events in the French context: the local administrator's perception of sport's social functions in Paris. The central position of the public stakeholder in the organization of sport in France is legally constituted and historically demonstrated. Meanwhile, the increasing involvement of private sectors introduces a commercial purpose that changes the public policy's outlines. We sought to identify the determinant (s) of the involvement of the city of Paris in competitive and commercial sports events conside- ring the plurality of interventions and actors in the sports field. Beyond local settings specificity's, the public intervention is legitimate when project purposes exceed the event. This local administrator's perception of social functions leads to a certain type of governance porosity; a situation where the two main actors (organizer and public stakeholder) get into a process of mutual adjustment maintaining the common interest through a protocol of goodwill. Finally, we analyze the involvement of the public stake- holder (city of Paris) in the recurring sporting event's governance in order to propose a model aimed at understanding the motivations behind the public support for competi- tive and commercial sporting events.