Olympic Games Paris 2024
Discover all there is to know (or almost) about the 2024 France Olympic Games!
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31/07/2024, updated 02/09/24
🔥DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THE MEDALS FROM THE PARIS 2024 GAMES?
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To symbolise the identity of the Paris 2024 Games, LVMH jeweler Chaumet was entrusted with the medal design process. |
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Both Olympic and Paralympic medals feature the Eiffel Tower iron on one side. The reverse side of the Olympic medal features the goddess of victory, Athena Nike, and the Panathenaic Stadium, symbolising the revival of the Games in Greece. For the first time, the medal features the Eiffel Tower, connecting ancient Greek origins with Paris 2024. |
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The reverse side of the Paralympic medals features a unique upward view of the Eiffel Tower. The words “Paris” and “2024” are inscribed in Braille, highlighting accessibility. Engraved dashes on the edge indicate gold, silver, and bronze medals, aiding athletes with visual impairments. |
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Chaumet has made the medal into a veritable jewel, with a construction conceived around three sources of inspiration:
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The Hexagon Shaped into a hexagon, symbolising France. |
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Radiance Reflecting both France's global brilliance and the athletes' stellar performances. |
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Setting the Gem The "Clous de Paris" hobnail setting, resembling Eiffel Tower rivets. |
A closer look at the Paralympic Games
26 of our French athletes have already won medals in various sports.
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17th Paralympic Games
August 28 to September 8, 2024
185 National Paralympic Committees
22 sports
11 days of competition
549 events
4,400 athletes
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Para Athletics (4)
🥉 Men's 1500m - T46 - Antoine PRAUD |
Para Cycling Track (7)
🥈 Women's C4-5 500m Time Trial - Marie PATOUILLET
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Para Rowing (2)
🥉 PR1 Women’s Single Sculls - Nathalie BENOIT
🥈 Women K44 -65kg - Djelika DIALLO |
Para Swimming (7)
🥇 Men's 400m Freestyle - S9 - Ugo DIDIER
🥈 Men's 400m Freestyle - S13 - Alex PORTAL
🥉 Men's 400m Freestyle - S13 - Kylian PORTAL |
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Para Table Tennis (3)
🥉 Men's Doubles - MD4LAMIRAULT/MICHAUD
Shooting Para Sport (2) |
64 of our French athletes have won medals in various sports.
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Sailing (2)
🥈 Women's Kite - Lauriane NOLOT |
Canoe Slalom (3)
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Cycling Mountain Bike (2) |
Cycling BMX Freestyle (1) |
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🥈 Men's Road Race - Valentin MADOUAS
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Cycling BMX Racing (3) |
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Fencing (7)
🥇 Women's Sabre Individual -Manon APITHY-BRUNET |
Judo (10) |
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Rugby Sevens (1) 🥇 Men Team
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Swimming (7)
🥇 Men's 400m Individual Medley - Leon MARCHAND
🥉 Men's 50m Freestyle - Florent MANAUDOU |
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🥈 Eventing Team |
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Archery (2) |
Shooting (1) |
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Tennis table (2) |
Athletics (1) |
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Surfing (2) |
Boxing (3) |
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Taekwondo (2)
🥇 Women +67kg - Althea LAURIN |
Modern Pentathlon (1) |
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Volleyball (1)
Football (1) |
Handball (1)
3x3 Basketball (1)
Basketball (2) |
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Breaking (1) |
Congrats to them! Let's keep our fingers crossed for our French athletes for the rest of the Games!
Photo credits: PARIS 2024 / CYRIL MASSON
18/07/2024
🔥DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE PARIS 2024 GAMES?
For the first time in the history of the Olympic Summer Games, the Opening Ceremony will not take place in a stadium and will be held
in the heart of the city along its main artery: the Seine.
Taking on a new guise, the parade of athletes will be held on the Seine with boats for each national delegation. Winding their way from
east to west, the 10,500 athletes will cross through the centre of Paris. The parade will come to the end of its 6-kilometre route in
front of the Trocadéro, where the remaining elements of Olympic protocol and final shows will take place.
The parade will depart from the Austerlitz bridge beside the Jardin des Plantes at 7.30 p.m. CET (10.30 a.m. in Los Angeles, 2.30 p.m. in
Rio de Janeiro, 6.30 p.m. in London and 8.30 p.m. in Athens) and make its way around the two islands at the centre of the city (the Île
Saint Louis and the Île de la Cité) before passing under several bridges and gateways.
Athletes will be featured on stage during the introduction to and throughout the ceremony as part of Paris 2024’s constant aim to hold Games
created for and by athletes.
Fans won’t need tickets to access the upper quays. Holding a ceremony open to a large audience, with no admission fee for most of its spectators, is a major first. Eighty giant screens and strategically placed speakers will allow everyone to enjoy the magical atmosphere of this show reverberating throughout the French capital.
THE CEREMONY IN A FEW FIGURES
26 JULY 2024
Date of the Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
1.5 BILLION
The average number of television and online viewers expected to watch the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Summer Games. The event will be broadcast all over the world.
94
The approximate number of boats in the parade fleet along the Seine as part of the first Opening Ceremony in the history of the Games for which a river will act as the primary stage. The delegations and performers will be among their passengers.
10500
Athletes representing 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and approximately 120 heads of state, sovereigns and heads of government will be in attendance.
6km
Length of the Parade Route
03/07/2024
🔥DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THE ADDITIONAL SPORTS AT THE PARIS 2024 GAMES?
Within the scope of the Olympic Games, Paris submitted a proposal to integrate four sports closely associated with young people and to
reward creativity and athletic performance. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is keen to set a new standard for inclusive,
gender-balanced, and youth-centered Games.
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Breaking (making its Olympic debut)
Breaking is an urban dance style that originated in the United States in the 1970s. After achieving resounding success at the 2018 Summer
Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Breaking is set to make its Olympic debut. |
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Sport climbing Sport climbing is a young, mixed-gender sport that has become immensely popular over the past 20 years. Sport climbing took its first steps on the Olympic stage at the Buenos Aires Youth Olympic Games in 2018. A hit at the youth events, sport climbing then made its debut at the Tokyo 2020 Games, joining the Olympic programme as a new sport. 📍Le Bourget Climbing Venue. |
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Skateboarding Skateboarding, rooted in 1950s US surf culture and evolving through the rebellious 1980s underground scene, embodies values of freedom and thrill-seeking. By the 21st century, it gained widespread popularity, especially among younger audiences. After debuting at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in 2021, skateboarding will return for Paris 2024. 📍Place de La Concorde. |
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Surfing Surfing made it onto the Olympic programme for the Tokyo 2020 Games and will return for Paris 2024. 📍The legendary surfing spot Teahupo’o in Tahiti has been selected as the venue for the surfing competition (nice, right?).
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Don’t forget to turn on your TV to watch these exciting new sports!
09/06/2024
🔥DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THE VENUES OF PARIS 2024 GAMES?
The Paris 2024 Games will be held in the heart of Paris. Regarding the pattern towards sustainability and cost-effectiveness in hosting major sporting events, they opted to utilise 95% of existing or temporary infrastructure for the Games.
The Centre Aquatique is the only sports facility built on a permanent basis.
Several temporary venues will be set up and will be dismantled after the Games. At the end of the event, all temporarily installed materials and structures will be reused or recycled.
7 venues in the heart of Paris during the Olympic Games: at the Trocadéro, the Eiffel Tower, the Champ-de-Mars, the Esplanade des Invalides, the Pont Alexandre III, the Place de la Concorde and the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville. Grandstands will also be set up along the Seine for the Olympic Opening Ceremony.
5 venues in the heart of Paris during the Paralympic Games: the Eiffel Tower, the Champ-de-Mars, the Esplanade des Invalides, the Pont Alexandre III and the Place de la Concorde.
The Champ-de-Mars |
The Esplanade des Invalides |
The Place de la Concorde |
The biggest
challenge remains to decontaminate the Seine for the planned swimming competitions. Swimming in the Seine is currently prohibited,
but the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, is determined to make it possible for the Olympic Games. The aim, beyond the event itself, is to make
the river swimmable for all by 2025. As some people remain sceptical as the Olympic Games approach, she and other public figures have
stated their intention to bathe in a few weeks' time to reassure the French. What do you think about it?
Source and info on https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024
02/06/2024
🔥DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THE ICONIC POSTER OF PARIS 2024 GAMES?
Official posters of the Olympic Games Paris 2024
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Designed to illustrate the Games which they represent, the posters are a tradition: since the Stockholm Games in 1912, every Organising Committee has highlighted its symbols through them.
The iconic posters for the Paris 2024 Games were revealed on 4 March 2024 at Musée d’Orsay.
Two thousand hours of work across six months of intense work producing the designs. |
It combines the Olympic and Paralympic Games for the first time.
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It depicts: - Symbols of Paris 2024 (mascots, Olympic flame’s arrival in Marseille on board the Belem, Marathon Pour Tous, boats for the ceremony on the Seine, Olympic parity, iconic competition venues, etc.). - Iconic elements representing Paris and France (Eiffel Tower, Marianne, Patrouille de France, Paris Metro, River Seine, Arc de Triomphe, etc.).
- The many sports that will be represented at the Games including breaking, sport climbing, skateboarding,
surfing, and more. I wish you a good luck for finding all these elements, it can be tricky! |
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and info on https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024
18/05/2024
🔥DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THE OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY?
- 10 000 Torchbearers
- 12 000 kilometers
- 400 cities
- 69 days
Before reaching the Olympic Games on July 26, the traditional Olympic Torch Relay will cross France and highlight the richness of French
heritage, beyond sport.
If you’re interested, you can follow the Torch here.
Source and info on https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024
