2024 Summer Olympics

Games of the XXXIII Olympiad

Emblem of the 2024 Summer Olympics
Host city	Paris, France
Motto	Games wide open (French: Ouvrons grand les Jeux)
Athletes	10,500 (quota limit)
Events	329 in 32 sports
Opening	26 July 2024
Closing	11 August 2024
Stadium	Jardins du Trocadéro and the Seine (opening ceremony) Stade de France (athletics competition, closing ceremony)
Summer ← Tokyo 2020 Los Angeles 2028 → Winter ← Beijing 2022 Milano-Cortina 2026 → 2024 Summer Paralympics

Paris was awarded the Games at the 131st IOC Session in Lima, Peru, on 13 September 2017. After multiple withdrawals that left only Paris and Los Angeles in contention, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved a process to concurrently award the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics to the two cities. Having previously hosted in 1900 and 1924, Paris will become the second city, after London (who were the hosts in 1908, 1948 and 2012) to host the Summer Olympics three times. Paris 2024 will mark the centenary of Paris 1924, and these Olympic Games will be the sixth hosted by France (three in summer and three in winter), and the first French Olympics since the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. Following Paris 2024, the Summer Games will return to the traditional four-year Olympiad cycle, as the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo was delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Paris 2024 will feature the debut of breakdancing as an Olympic event, and it will be the final Olympic Games held during the presidency of IOC President Thomas Bach. The Games will be the first to feature an identical number of athletes between men and women. The Games are expected to cost €8.3 billion.

The five candidate cities were Paris, Hamburg, Budapest, Rome, and Los Angeles. The bidding process was slowed by withdrawals, political uncertainty and deterring costs. Hamburg withdrew its bid on 29 November 2015 after holding a referendum. Rome withdrew on 21 September 2016, citing fiscal difficulties. Budapest withdrew on 22 February 2017, after a petition against the bid collected more signatures than necessary for a referendum.

Following these withdrawals, the IOC Executive Board met on 9 June 2017 in Lausanne, Switzerland, to discuss the 2024 and 2028 bid processes. The International Olympic Committee formally proposed electing the 2024 and 2028 Olympic host cities at the same time in 2017, a proposal which an Extraordinary IOC Session approved on 11 July 2017 in Lausanne. The IOC set up a process whereby the LA 2024 and Paris 2024 bid committees met with the IOC to discuss which city would host the Games in 2024 and 2028, and whether it was possible to select the host cities for both at the same time.

Following the decision to award the two games simultaneously, Paris was understood to be the preferred host for 2024. On 31 July 2017, the IOC announced Los Angeles as the sole candidate for 2028, enabling Paris to be confirmed as host for 2024. Both decisions were ratified at the 131st IOC Session on 13 September 2017.

Host city election

Paris was elected as the host city on 13 September 2017 at the 131st IOC Session in Lima, Peru. The two French IOC members, Guy Drut and Tony Estanguet, were ineligible to vote under the rules of the Olympic Charter.

2024 Summer Olympics
bidding results

City	Nation	Votes
Paris	France	Unanimous

Venues

 

 

Arena Paris Nord and Villepinte PMC Range

 

Parc des Princes
Stade Roland Garros

 

Bercy Arena

 

Champ de Mars

 

Paris expo Porte de Versailles
Dôme de Paris

 

Le Bourget Media Village and Urban Sports Park

 

Concorde

 

Arc de Triomphe
Place Charles de Gaulle

 

Grand Palais

 

Les Invalides

 

Stade de France
Paris Aquatic Centre

 

Porte de La Chapelle Arena

 

Paris La Défense Arena

 

Stade Yves-du-Manoir

 

François Mitterrand Urban Sports Park

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Location of the facilities in the Paris area

Most of the Olympic events will be held in the city of Paris and its metropolitan region, including the neighbouring cities of Saint-Denis, Le Bourget, Nanterre, Versailles, and Vaires-sur-Marne.

The handball tournaments will be held in Lille, which is 225 km (140 mi) from the host city; the sailing and some football games will be held in the Mediterranean city of Marseille, which is 777 km (483 mi) from the host city; meanwhile, the surfing events are expected to be held in Teahupo'o village in the overseas territory of French Polynesia, which is 15,716 km (9,765 mi) from the host city. Football will also be hosted in another five cities, which are Bordeaux, Décines-Charpieu (Lyon), Nantes, Nice and Saint-Étienne, some of which are home to Ligue 1 clubs.

Grand Paris zone

 

 

 

Paris Centre zone

 

 

 

 

 

Versailles zone

 

 

 

 

Outlying venues

 

 

Non-competitive

Medals

Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet unveiled the Olympic and Paralympic medals for the Games in February 2024, which on the obverse featured embedded hexagon-shaped tokens of scrap iron that had been taken from the original construction of the Eiffel Tower, with the Games logo engraved into it. Approximately 5,084 medals would be produced by the French mint Monnaie de Paris, and were designed by Chaumet, a luxury jewellery firm based in Paris.

The reverse of the medals features Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, inside the Panathenaic Stadium which hosted the first modern Olympics in 1896. Parthenon and the Eiffel Tower can also be seen in the background on both sides of the medal. Each medal weighs 455–529 g (16–19 oz), has a diameter of 85 mm (3.3 in) and is 9.2 mm (0.36 in) thick. The gold medals are made with 98.8 percent silver and 1.13 percent gold, while the bronze medals are made up with copper, zinc, and tin.

Security

France reached an agreement with Europol and the UK Home Office to help strengthen security and "facilitate operational information exchange" and "international law enforcement cooperation" during the Games. Within the agreements, it was planned to deploy more drones and sea barriers to prevent small boats from crossing the channel illegally. The British Army will also be deploying Starstreak surface-to-air missile units for air security. Police in Paris held inspections and rehearsals within their bomb disposal unit before the Games, similar to their preparations for the 2023 Rugby World Cup at the Stade de France.

As a part of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani visit to France, several agreements were signed between two nations to enhance security for the Olympics. In preparation for the significant security demands and counterterrorist measures, Poland has pledged to contribute security troops, including sniffer dog handlers, to support international efforts aimed at ensuring the safety of the Games. The Qatari Minister of Interior and Commander of Lekhwiya convened a meeting on 3 April 2024 ahead of the Olympics, with officials and security leaders, including Nasser Al-Khelaifi and Sheikh Jassim bin Mansour Al Thani to discuss security operations, while US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel to modernize the command structure of the security alliance with Japan.

Security concerns impacted the announced plans for the opening ceremony to take place as a public event along the Seine; the expected attendance was reduced by half from an estimated 600,000 to 300,000, with plans for free viewing locations now being by invitation only. In April 2024, after Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Crocus City Hall attack in March, and made several threats against the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, French president Emmanuel Macron indicated that the opening ceremony could be scaled back or re-located if necessary.

Volunteers

The Paris 2024 volunteer platform for the Olympic and Paralympic Games was opened to the public in March 2023. There were expected to be 45,000 volunteers recruited worldwide for the Games. Following the end of registration on 3 May 2023, over 300,000 applications had been submitted to the Paris Organizing Committee, exceeding the number of applicants for the previous two Olympics. Applicants were notified of the outcome of their application between September and December 2023. Over 800 applicants were excluded over security fears, among which 15 were flagged with Fiche S.

Opening ceremony

 

The opening ceremony is scheduled to begin on 26 July 2024 at 19:30 (CEST, GMT+2). The ceremony is tentatively scheduled to take place outside a traditional stadium setting for the first time, with plans for a parade of nations conducted as a boat parade along the Seine from Pont d'Austerlitz to Pont d'Iéna, and the official protocol taking place at Place du Trocadéro in a temporary "mini-stadium". The 6-kilometre (3.7-mile) parade route would feature cultural presentations and views of Paris landmarks. The ceremonies of the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics will be directed by Thomas Jolly.

Organisers promoted that the ceremony would be the most "spectacular and accessible opening ceremony in Olympic history", with COJOP2024 president Tony Estanguet stating that it would be free to attend, and estimating that it could attract as many as 600,000 spectators—exemplifying an overall goal for Paris 2024 to be a "people's Olympics". There will be 100,000 ticketed spectators at viewing spots on the lower banks of the Seine, and approximately 200,000 spectators at free viewing spots on the upper banks (in addition to being visible from other public locations and buildings). In March 2024, due to security concerns, the French government ordered that access to the upper bank locations be by invitation only, and in April 2024, President Macron stated that the ceremony could be scaled back or be held in a conventional manner at Stade de France, if necessary.

Sports

The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics will feature 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking will make its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing will return from 2020. Four events have been dropped from weightlifting. In canoeing, two sprint events have been replaced with two slalom events, keeping the overall total at 16. In sport climbing, the previous "combined" event has been split up to create the separate events of "speed climbing" and "boulder-and-lead" for each gender.

In February 2023, USA Boxing announced its decision to boycott the 2023 World Championships (organized by the International Boxing Association) where Russian and Belarusian athletes would compete with no restrictions, also accusing the IBA of attempting to sabotage the IOC-approved qualification pathway for the 2024 Summer Olympics: Poland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Canada later joined the U.S.

New and optional sports

When Paris was bidding for the Games in August 2017, the Paris Organising Committee announced that it would hold talks with the IOC and professional esports organisations about the possibility of introducing competitive events in 2024. In July 2018, the IOC confirmed that it would not consider esports for the 2024 Olympics. At the 134th IOC Session in June 2019, the IOC approved the Paris Organising Committee's proposed optional sports of breaking (breakdance), along with skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing—three sports that debuted at the then-upcoming 2020 Summer Olympics.

Closing ceremony

The closing ceremonies are scheduled to be held at Stade de France on 11 August 2024.

The following is a list of National Olympic Committees who have qualified at least one athlete for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the IOC banned Russia and Belarus from the games for violating the Olympic Truce. Russian and Belarusian athletes may instead compete as "Individual Neutral Athletes" (AIN), as long as they did not "actively" support the war and therefore they should not carry the flag of the countries they are going to represent. Individual neutral athletes must be approved by each sport's international federation, but an international federation has the discretion not to approve any athletes in their sport. As individual athletes, AIN will not be considered a delegation during the opening ceremony or on official medal tables.

Number of athletes by National Olympic Committees

As of 26 April 2024^[update]

Ranking	NOC	Athletes
1	United States	507
2	France	488
3	Australia	385
4	Germany	313
5	China	302
6	Japan	292
7	Spain	276
8	Great Britain	266
9	Italy	224
10	Canada	213
11	Brazil	184
12	New Zealand	179
13	Netherlands	174
14	Egypt	138
15	Poland	130
16	Hungary	127
17	Argentina	102
18	Belgium	100
19	South Korea	99
20	South Africa	96
21	Ireland	95
22	Ukraine	85
23	Sweden	83
24	Romania	82
25	Serbia	81
26	Norway	75
27	Denmark	74
27	Mexico	74
28	India	67
29	Kenya	65
29	Switzerland	65
32	Colombia	61
33	Israel	60
34	Greece	59
34	Turkey	59
34	Slovenia	59
37	Croatia	55
38	Nigeria	54
39	Czech Republic	46
39	Kazakhstan	46
41	Morocco	45
42	Dominican Republic	43
42	Portugal	43
44	Austria	40
45	Cuba	38
45	Individual Neutral Athletes	38
45	Jamaica	38
48	Uzbekistan	37
49	Chinese Taipei	32
49	Iran	32
51	Algeria	31
51	Lithuania	31
51	Thailand	31
54	Ethiopia	30
55	Bulgaria	27
55	Fiji	27
57	Ecuador	26
58	Venezuela	25
59	Chile	24
60	Tunisia	23
61	Hong Kong	22
61	Puerto Rico	22
63	Angola	20
63	Azerbaijan	20
63	Paraguay	20
63	Peru	20
63	Zambia	20
68	Finland	19
68	Uruguay	19
70	Mali	18
70	Samoa	18
72	Uganda	17
73	Slovakia	16
74	Mongolia	14
75	Montenegro	13
76	Indonesia	12
76	Singapore	12
76	South Sudan	12
79	Armenia	11
79	Georgia	11
79	North Korea	11
79	Philippines	11
83	Bahrain	10
83	Guatemala	10
83	Latvia	10
83	Malaysia	10
83	Moldova	10
88	Estonia	9
88	Kyrgyzstan	9
90	Eritrea	8
90	Vietnam	8
92	Ivory Coast	7
92	Qatar	7
94	Jordan	6
94	Luxembourg	6
96	Botswana	5
96	Burkina Faso	5
96	Mauritius	5
99	Cyprus	4
99	Pakistan	4
99	Panama	4
99	Rwanda	4
99	Saudi Arabia	4
99	Senegal	4
99	Suriname	4
99	Tajikistan	4
99	Trinidad and Tobago	4
99	Tanzania	4
99	United Arab Emirates	4
110	Aruba	3
110	Bahamas	3
110	Burundi	3
110	Costa Rica	3
110	Kuwait	3
110	Refugee Olympic Team	3
116	Albania	2
116	Bermuda	2
116	Cayman Islands	2
116	Chad	2
116	The Gambia	2
116	Grenada	2
116	Guam	2
116	Guinea-Bissau	2
116	Lebanon	2
116	Lesotho	2
116	Liberia	2
116	Mozambique	2
116	Namibia	2
116	Niger	2
116	Papua New Guinea	2
116	Palestine	2
116	Saint Lucia	2
116	Syria	2
116	Virgin Islands	2
116	Zimbabwe	2
136	Andorra	1
136	Antigua and Barbuda	1
136	Barbados	1
136	Bolivia	1
136	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1
136	British Virgin Islands	1
136	Cameroon	1
136	Cook Islands	1
136	Democratic Republic of the Congo	1
136	Djibouti	1
136	Dominica	1
136	Gabon	1
136	Honduras	1
136	Iceland	1
136	Iraq	1
136	Kosovo	1
136	Libya	1
136	Madagascar	1
136	Marshall Islands	1
136	Monaco	1
136	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1
136	San Marino	1
136	Togo	1
136	Turkmenistan	1

The following schedule is correct as of the latest schedule released in March 2024. The exact schedule can change up until the end of the games.

All times and dates use Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

OC

Opening ceremony

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Event competitions

1

Gold medal events

CC

Closing ceremony

July/August 2024		July								August											Events
		24th Wed	25th Thu	26th Fri	27th Sat	28th Sun	29th Mon	30th Tue	31st Wed	1st Thu	2nd Fri	3rd Sat	4th Sun	5th Mon	6th Tue	7th Wed	8th Thu	9th Fri	10th Sat	11th Sun
Ceremonies				OC																CC	—
Aquatics	Artistic swimming													●	●	1		●	1		2
	Diving				1		1		1		1			●	1	●	1	1	1		8
	Marathon swimming																1	1			2
	Swimming				4	3	5	3	5	4	3	4	4								35
	Water polo				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1	2
Archery			●			1	1	●	●	●	1	1	1								5
Athletics										2	1	5	3	4	5	5	5	8	9	1	48
Badminton					●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1	1	2							5
Basketball	Basketball				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●	1	1	2
	3×3 Basketball							●	●	●	●	●	●	2							2
Boxing					●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		1	2	2	4	4		13
Breaking																		1	1		2
Canoeing	Slalom				●	1	1	●	1	1	●	●	●	2							6
	Sprint														●	●	3	4	3		10
Cycling	Road cycling				2							1	1								4
	Track cycling													1	1	2	2	2	1	3	12
	BMX							●	2	●	2										4
	Mountain biking					1	1														2
Equestrian
	Dressage							●	●			1	1								2
	Eventing				●	●	2														2
	Jumping									●	1			●	1						2
Fencing					2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1								12
Field hockey					●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1			2
Football		●	●		●	●		●	●		●	●		●	●		●	1	1		2
Golf										●	●	●	1			●	●	●	1		2
Gymnastics	Artistic				●	●	1	1	1	1		3	3	4							14
	Rhythmic																●	1	1		2
	Trampoline										2										2
Handball			●		●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●		●	●	●	●	1	1	2
Judo					2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1									15
Modern pentathlon																	●	●	1	1	2
Rowing					●	●	●	●	2	4	4	4									14
Rugby sevens		●	●		1	●	●	1													2
Sailing						●	●	●	●	2	2	●	●	●	2	2	2				10
Shooting					1	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	1	2							15
Skateboarding					1	1									1	1					4
Sport climbing														●	●	1	1	1	1		4
Surfing					●	●	●	●	2												2
Table tennis					●	●	●	1	●	●	●	1	1	●	●	●	●	1	1		5
Taekwondo																2	2	2	2		8
Tennis					●	●	●	●	●	●	1	2	2								5
Triathlon								1	1					1							3
Volleyball	Beach volleyball				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1		2
	Volleyball				●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	●	1	1	2
Weightlifting																2	2	2	3	1	10
Wrestling														●	3	3	3	3	3	3	18
Daily medal events					14	13	18	12	19	18	23	27	20	18	15	21	25	34	39	13	329
Cumulative total					14	27	45	57	76	94	117	144	164	182	197	218	243	277	316	329
July/August 2024
		24th Wed	25th Thu	26th Fri	27th Sat	28th Sun	29th Mon	30th Tue	31st Wed	1st Thu	2nd Fri	3rd Sat	4th Sun	5th Mon	6th Tue	7th Wed	8th Thu	9th Fri	10th Sat	11th Sun	Total events
		July								August

Emblem

The emblem for the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics was unveiled on 21 October 2019 at the Grand Rex. Inspired by Art Deco, it is a representation of Marianne, the national personification of France, with a flame formed in negative space by her hair. The emblem also resembles a gold medal. Tony Estanguet explained that the emblem symbolised "the power and the magic of the Games", and the Games being "for people". The use of a female figure also serves as an homage to the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, which were the first to allow women to participate. The emblem was designed by the French designer Sylvain Boyer with the French design agency Royalties.

The emblem for Paris 2024 was considered the biggest new logo release of 2019 by many design magazines. An Opinion Way survey shows that 83 per cent of French people say they like the new Paris 2024 Games emblem. Approval ratings were high, with 82 per cent of those surveyed finding it aesthetically appealing and 78 per cent finding it to be creative. It was met with some mockery on social media, one user commenting that the logo "would be better suited to a dating site or a hair salon".

For the first time, the 2024 Summer Paralympics is sharing the same emblem as its corresponding Olympics, with no difference, reflecting a shared "ambition" between both events.

Mascots

 

On 14 November 2022, The Phryges were unveiled as the mascots of the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics; they are a pair of anthropomorphic Phrygian caps, a historic French symbol of freedom and liberty. Marianne is commonly depicted wearing the Phrygian cap, including in the Eugène Delacroix painting, Liberty Leading the People. The two mascots share a motto of "Alone we go faster, but together we go further".

Poster

The Olympic poster for these games was revealed on 4 March 2024. Designed by Uga Gattoni, the poster uses a diptych design, with one half representing the Olympics and the other half representing the Paralympics. For the first time, the Olympic poster and Paralympic poster were designed together, as each one can work independently as halves, or be combined into one poster all together. The posters took 2,000 hours, across six months to complete.

Corporate sponsorship

Belgian beverage company AB InBev became the first Worldwide Olympic Partner during the Games.

In France, domestic rights to the 2024 Summer Olympics are owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (formerly Discovery Inc.) via Eurosport, with free-to-air coverage sublicensed to the country's public broadcaster France Télévisions.

There were various issues that caused concerns and controversies related to the 2024 Summer Olympics.

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