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2024 Olympic Games In less than two weeks, the Summer Olympic Games will begin in Paris, which will be held for the third time in the French capital. The first were in 1900 and the second in 1924, exactly 100 years ago.
For the first time, this year’s Paris Olympic Games will feature an equal number of male and female athletes and the same number of events for all.
You can take a look at the complete schedule day by day here. Sports Telegraph He has also published a guide for British athletes competing at this summer’s Gamesfurther Team GB kit for Paris.
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When do the Paris 2024 Olympic Games start and finish?
The 33rd Summer Olympic Games will be held from Friday, July 26 to Sunday, August 11 in Paris.
The Paris Olympics will end on August 11 with the traditional closing ceremony. On the last day, there will also be 13 gold medals up for grabs.
When will the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games be?
As is tradition, the Opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games The event will take place on Friday 26 July. Before the opening ceremony, several events will be held: archery, football, rugby sevens and handball.
How to watch the Paris 2024 Olympics
There are several ways to watch the Olympics. Eurosport is the main European rights holder for broadcasting the Olympics this year, although the BBC will continue to cover the big moments on its channels. You can watch the Olympics online on the Eurosport player, the BBC iPlayer app and on the BBC website. Sports Telegraph Live blogs will be provided on all key sporting events.
Team GB athletes
Team GB has announced it will travel to Paris 2024 with a squad of 327 athletes, the ninth largest team. For the second consecutive Olympics, women (174) will outnumber men (153) in the British team.
The complete list of Team GB’s selected athletes can be found here.
Medal table expected for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
The United States is expected to lead the Olympic medal table again, while Great Britain is aiming for a record number of podium finishes.
Read more details at British team expected to medal in Paris.
Will Russia be able to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics?
Russian (and Belarusian) athlete They cannot compete under their national flag or for their national Olympic committee. Instead, all athletes from both countries must compete as neutral individual athletes, and only if they meet the eligibility criteria imposed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Which are the GB Paris team kits?
Team GB have opted to play it safe with their Adidas kits for Paris. Following the backlash over the sale of alternative items featuring the British flag, British athletes will adopt a much more conservative tone for the Games, sticking to the traditional colours of red, white and blue. Read more here.
Flame of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
The torch for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was lit in ancient Olympia, in a traditional ceremony to mark the final stretch of the countdown to the Summer Games.
The flame was officially handed over to the organisers of the Paris Games at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, the site of the first modern Games in 1896, on 26 April, after an 11-day relay around Greece. The following day it set sail for France aboard the three-masted ship ‘Belem’.
The French torch relay lasts 68 days and will end in Paris with the lighting of the Olympic flame on July 26, marking the start of the Olympic Games.
How many sports will there be at the Paris 2024 Olympics?
Thirty-two different sports will be contested at the Paris Olympics, including 28 compulsory “core” sports and a maximum of six optional sports, decided by the hosts.
Paris has opted for breakdancing, which will make its Olympic debut, along with skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing. The latter three made their debut at Tokyo 2020.
More than 10,000 athletes from 206 nations are expected to take part in 329 events, across 45 sports disciplines.
Full list of 2024 Paris Olympic Games venues
Paris area
Arena Bercy – Artistic gymnastics and trampoline, basketball.
Mars field – Judo, wrestling
Eiffel Tower Stadium – Beach volleyball
Grand palace – Fencing, taekwondo
City Hotel – Athletics (marathon)
Invalids – Archery, athletics, road cycling.
The Concorde – 3×3 basketball, breaking, freestyle BMX, skateboarding
Princes Park – Football
Alexander III Bridge – Road cycling, marathon swimming, triathlon
Chapel Gate Sand – Badminton, rhythmic gymnastics
Roland Garros Stadium – Boxing, tennis
South Paris Arena – Handball, table tennis, volleyball, weightlifting
Trocadero – Athletics, road cycling
Île-de-France region
Aquatic center – Artistic swimming, diving, water polo.
Palace of Versailles – Equestrian modern pentathlon
Elancourt Hill – Mountain bike cycling
Le Bourget sport climbing venue – Shooting, sport climbing
National Golf – Golf
Arena of northern Paris – Boxing, modern pentathlon
Paris La Defense Arena – Swimming, water polo
Saint Quentin BMX Stadium in Yvelines – BMX racing
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome – Track cycling
Stade de France – Opening and closing ceremonies, rugby and athletics.
Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium – Athletics, rugby sevens
Yves du Manoir – Hockey
Throughout France
Bordeaux Stadium – Football
Chateauroux Shooting Centre – Shooting
Geoffrey-Guichard Stadium – Football
La Beaujoire Stadium – Football
Lyon Stadium – Football
Marina of Marseille – Navigation
Marseille Stadium – Football
Nice Stadium – Football
Pierre Mauroy Stadium – Basketball, handball
Teahupo’o, Tahiti – Surf
Tickets for the Olympic Games: How to get them and how much they cost
There are a total of 10 million tickets for the Games, with British fans expected to be the largest fan base outside their home country.
“The British team is coming with a lot of anticipation,” said Etienne Thobois, chief executive of the Paris 2024 organisers. “We are more than happy to see the British people coming to cheer on the world’s athletes. We are looking forward to welcoming them to Paris. It is so close, less than three hours away (by Eurostar) and London 2012 is still fresh in everyone’s memory. It was an inspiring Games for us too. Great Britain is by far the number one market outside France.”
Tickets for the most popular Olympic events, such as swimming and gymnastics, are sold out and can only be purchased through special “hospitality packages”. Remaining tickets for the opening ceremony are available for up to €2,700 (£2,300).
For information on tickets Visit the official website.
What are Olympic medals made of?
This summer’s Olympics will mark the 100th anniversary of the last edition of the Games in Paris. To celebrate the return of the Games to France, each Olympic medal is adorned with an original piece of iron from the Eiffel Tower. They were cut from beams and other elements that were moved from the Eiffel Tower during renovations and then prepared for medals by stripping them of paint, polishing them and then varnishing them.
The hexagonal shape of the iron pieces represents the country; the French sometimes refer to their country as “L’Hexagone” because of its geographical shape.
The Eiffel Tower also inspired the unique design of the medal ribbons, each adorned with the latticework of the famous monument.
The medals were designed by the Parisian jewellery house Chaumet. Surrounding the iron parts of the Eiffel Tower are discs of gold, silver or bronze. The shine of the medals is due to the crumpled effect of the discs. The organisers of the Games claim that the metal is recycled, not newly manufactured.
Meanwhile, those who are lucky enough to win a gold medal in athletics She will also receive $50,000 (£39,380) from World Athletics, the first sport to offer prize money for an Olympic title.
