Counting the remaining months before the Paris Olympic Games 2024, there is a lot that we must know about what will transpire in the French City. Here is a list of the 24 things that we need to know about Paris 2024 which you can confidently and enthusiastically share with your family and friends.
Top five things to know about Paris Olympics
- The official dates of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games happening in Paris are July 26-August 11, and August 28-September 8 respectively.
- The Paris 2024 competitions in the fields of football and rugby will begin on July 24, two days before the official opening ceremony.
- The 2024 Paris Olympics will be a century from the time the 1924 Paris Olympics was held.
- Paris and London hosted the Olympics three times. London during the 1908, 1948, and 2012 games while Paris during 1900, 1924, and 2024.
- Almost one hundred years will pass between the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony in Paris on July 26, and the 1924 Closing Ceremony on July 27 in the same city.
How many medals?
- The Paris 2024 opening ceremony won’t be having a stadium hosting because it will be held at the Seine, the river that runs through the heart of Paris.
- The 2024 Olympics will feature 32 sports and 329 event medals.
- Most medals will be awarded in the field of aquatics with 49 events– diving, water polo, artistic swimming, marathon swimming, and swimming. Athletics will come in next with 48 events.
- The number of expected athletes that will be participating is roughly 10,500. The final number will be confirmed after the conclusion of the Olympic Qualifier Series.
- Breaking is a new sport that will be added in the Paris 2024 Olympics. Dance sports will comprise two events– one for men and one for women– where 16 B-Boys and 16 B-Girls will fight in solo bouts.
Thousands of volunteers
- An estimated number of 45,000 volunteered to offer help at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
- 13 out of the 35 venues will be used to accommodate different sports. These are all within ten kilometers of the Olympic Village.
- Some of the Olympic events will take place in well-known locations throughout Paris such as the Champ de Mars (below the Eiffel Tower) for beach volleyball, La Concorde for urban sports, the Grand Palais for fencing and taekwondo, and the Hotel de Ville for the marathon start.
- Sports events will not just be held in the nation’s capital. Events in sailing will be held in Marseille, team sports will be held in Lille, and football matches will be held in Bordeaux, Nantes, Lyon, Saint-Etienne, Nice, and Marseille.
- The surfing sport will happen on the famed Teahupoo wave on the Pacific island of Tahiti, which is almost 15,000 kilometers from Paris.
- Extreme slalom is a new canoe event that will debut in the 2024 Olympics. Athletes tip off a ramp simultaneously, and the winner is the first person to reach the bottom of the course. A separate event will be made for men and women.
- There will be two new sailing categories in Paris 2024 One is IQFoil, which is windsurfing, and the other is formula kite, also referred to as kite surfing.
- The 35-kilometer walking mixed relay in running, the Skeet mixed team event in shooting, and the mixed Dinghy in sailing are three new mixed events that will also debut in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
A 32 year wait for Paris
- The Olympic Games will return to France for the first time in 32 years. The last Olympics to take place in France was the Winter Games in Albertville in 1992.
- The format of sport climbing, which debuted at Tokyo 2020 in 2021, will be altered for 2024. For every gender, there will be two distinct medal events in Paris 2024: one for a combined event that solely consists of bouldering and lead, and another for speed climbing.
- The Modern Pentathlon will use a new format that will run precisely 90 minutes. Riding will be the first activity, followed by the fencing bonus round and swimming. The event will end with the laser run with combined shooting and running. There will be breaks between 5-15 minutes per activity.
- Almost 10 million tickets will be on sale for the Paris 2024 Olympics, and around 3.4 million for the 2024 Paralympics. Tickets will be sold via a single website. Click here to know more.
- Tickets will start at €24 for the Olympics, and €15 for the Paralympics. Check here for more details.
- There will be an IOC Refugee Olympic Team that will compete in Paris 2024. Back in Rio 2016, the first refugee squad competed. The Refugee Olympic Team aims to give hope to millions of Refugees around the world.
Indeed, the Olympics is a global platform for the inspiring collaboration of athletics, culture, and unity. As we look forward to this years’ games, may we be reminded of the significance of friendship, excellence, and mutual respect.
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