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The Olympic rings are unveiled in a ceremony at Place du Trocadero next to the Eiffel Tower after Paris wins the 2024 Olympic Games bid in 2017. Photo: EPA With a debut for break dancing, surfing to be held in Tahiti, and a pledge for 50 per cent female athlete participation, Paris promises a lot of ‘firsts’Paris Games president Tony Estanguet vows there will be cheap tickets, free-for-all opening ceremony, and open torch-bearing applicationsPublished: 3:30pm, 3 Apr, 2022 Updated: 3:30pm, 3 Apr, 2022 The Olympic rings are unveiled in a ceremony at Place du Trocadero next to the Eiffel Tower after Paris wins the 2024 Olympic Games bid in 2017. Photo: EPA The Games of the XXXIII Olympiad - known as the Paris 2024 Olympic Games - will be the first time in a century and the third time ever that France has hosted the Olympics. The Games were first held in the French capital in 1900 and then again in 1924, with Paris set to become the second city - after London in 1908, 1948 and 2012 - to host the event for a third time. The Games officially open on July 26, 2024 with a tradition-breaking, "bold, original and unique" opening ceremony that will see the parade of athletes take place on a 6km route along the Seine. From there, "the remaining elements of the Olympic protocol and final shows will take place" in front of the Trocadero. The Olympic programme will contain 32 sports, with breaking - break dancing to you and me - making its bow. Sport climbing, skateboarding and surfing return again after their successful showings in Tokyo. Olympics ORF and IOC Refugee Olympic Team receive 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports 29/10/2022 AT 17:35 The action will take place mainly in and around Paris, with handball, football, sailing and surfing taking place further afield. The surfing competition will be hosted in Teahupoʻo, a village on the southwestern coast of the island of Tahiti, French Polynesia.
What are the dates of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games?The Paris 2024 Olympic Games run from July 26 to August 11, 2024. How to watch the Paris 2024 Olympic Games?The Olympic Games will return with Paris 2024, live on Eurosport and discovery+. What is the schedule for the Paris 2024 Games?The schedule for the Paris 2024 Games can be accessed here. Competition begins on July 24 – with football and handball – which is two days before the opening ceremony. There will be 19 days of competition. July 27 will see the award of the first medals. There will be eight finals that day in cycling - women's and men's time trial - judo, fencing, diving, rugby, shooting, swimming and skateboarding. The last gold will be awarded on Sunday August 11, for women’s basketball. When and where will Paris 2024 tickets be on sale & how can I buy them?There will be almost 10 million tickets on sale for Paris 2024 and there will be three main phases of sales to the general public, as per the official Paris 2024 website, these will be:
To be eligible to buy tickets, fans must register for a draw in late 2022. This is to give all fans equal opportunity of getting a ticket. If fans are selected from the draw, they will then be given a window to buy tickets - while a maximum amount of tickets that can be bought per fan, per window, is set to be announced. ‘Games wide open’ – The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are just two years away… What new sports will there be at Paris 2024?To be included in an Olympics, each sport must be represented by an international federation. Each Olympic sport can be divided into disciplines and events. So, swimming is a discipline of aquatics and the 100m freestyle is an event whereby athletes can win medals. Here, as per the programme of the Games of the Olympiad fact sheet, is the process for the finalisation of the Olympic programme.
Paris 2024 submitted four sports to be included: breaking, sport climbing, skateboarding and surfing. The latter three were also included in the Tokyo programme and thus breaking is the only sport that makes its debut at Paris 2024. Karate and baseball/softball have been cut from the programme. Breaking (a competitive form of breakdancing) has already had Olympic exposure - it had an outing at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires. At Paris 2024, there will be two breaking gold medals on offer. Here is the full list of all the sports for Paris 2024.
'See you 2024' – Excitement builds as Paris readies itself for an Olympics 100 years on What are the venues for Paris 2024?The lion's share of the venues are in and around Paris, with football, sailing, handball and surfing taking place outside of the capital. Hare the venues that are within close proximity of the Olympic village. They are:
There are the sites that are set in the Ile-de-France region:
Eight other venues are dotted around the rest of France. They are:
One event will take place in Tahiti:
What is different about the opening ceremony?In December 2021, Paris 2024 announced its intention to host the "most accessible" opening ceremony - a 6km procession along the River Seine. In doing so, they are set to break the tradition of a stadium procession of athletes and officials. The parade of athletes will take place on the Seine, with a separate boat for every national delegation. It will run between Pont d’Austerlitz and Pont d’Iena and end in front of the Trocadero. 600,000 spectators are expected to attend the opening ceremony, with paid-for seating on the lower banks of the River Seine and on some bridges too. The upper banks of the Seine will be open to the public to enjoy the ceremony free of charge and there will also be 80 giant screens along the route. "For the first time in the history of the Summer Olympic Games, the ceremony will not be taking place in a stadium. Paris 2024 is breaking new ground in sports competition by bringing sports out into the city and the same will be true for the opening ceremony, which will be held in the heart of the city, along its main artery, the Seine," read a statement on the Paris 2024 website. Details on obtaining tickets for the Opening Ceremony will follow in due course. What is the mascot of Paris 2024?The official mascot for Paris 2024 is yet to be announced. - - - The Olympic Games will return with Paris 2024, live on Eurosport and discovery+. Olympics 'We have to protect the international sport from the full politicisation' - Bach 19/10/2022 AT 12:17 Olympics NFL confirms Munich will host first league game in Germany in 2022 04/10/2022 AT 15:04 What games are in 2024?The Paris Games of 2024 will mark the centenary of the Paris Games of 1924, and will be the sixth Olympic games hosted by France (three in summer - 1900, 1924, 2024 and three in winter - 1924, 1968, 1992), and the first Olympic Games in France since the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville.
What sports will be at 2024 Olympics?Saturday 27 July, the first official competition day of the Olympic Games Paris 2024, will feature medal events for eight sports: cycling, with the women's and men's time trial, judo, fencing, diving, rugby, shooting, swimming and skateboarding.
Will wrestling be in the 2024 Olympics?Wrestling will be contested in three styles at Paris 2024 - Greco-Roman, men's freestyle, and women's freestyle - with a total of 18 weight classes. One weight class will have 16 wrestlers and each nation will be able to field a maximum of one wrestler per weight.
Will there be a Mario and Sonic 2024?Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games: Paris 2024 is a sports video game released for Nintendo Switch. It is the seventh installment in the long-running Mario & Sonic series.
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