2024 Summer Olympics

Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Emblem of the 2024 Summer Olympics
Host cityParis, France
MottoGames wide open
(French: Ouvrons grand les Jeux)[1][2]
Athletes10,500 (quota limit)[3]
Events329 in 32 sports
Opening26 July 2024
Closing11 August 2024
StadiumJardins du Trocadéro and the Seine
(opening ceremony)
Stade de France
(athletics competition, closing ceremony)[4]
Summer
Winter
2024 Summer Paralympics

The 2024 Summer Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques d'été de 2024), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (French: Jeux de la XXXIIIe Olympiade) and commonly known as Paris 2024, is an upcoming international multi-sport event scheduled to take place from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in France, with Paris as the main host city and 16 other cities spread across metropolitan France, plus one subsite in Tahiti—an island within the French overseas country and overseas collectivity of French Polynesia.[5]

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 breaking (also known as breakdancing)[6] as an Olympic event, and it will be the final Olympic Games held during the presidency of IOC President Thomas Bach.[7] The Games will be the first to feature identical number of athletes between men and women. The Games are expected to cost €8.3 billion.[8]

  1. ^ "New Paris 2024 slogan "Games wide open" welcomed by IOC President". International Paralympic Committee. 25 July 2022. Archived from the original on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  2. ^ "Le nouveau slogan de Paris 2024 "Ouvrons grand les Jeux" accueilli favorablement par le président du CIO" [Paris 2024's new slogan "Let's open up the Games" welcomed by the IOC President] (in French). International Paralympic Committee. 25 July 2022. Archived from the original on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Stade de France". Archived from the original on 18 February 2023. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  5. ^ Butler, Nick (7 February 2018). "Paris 2024 to start week earlier than planned after IOC approve date change". Inside the Games. Archived from the original on 9 November 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2018.
  6. ^ Keicha, Meshack (19 December 2020). "Kenya To Send Break Dancers To Paris For 2024 Olympic Games". Boxscore. Archived from the original on 1 April 2023. Retrieved 31 March 2023.
  7. ^ Dunbarap, Graham (10 March 2021). "Thomas Bach re-elected as IOC president until 2025". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 29 July 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  8. ^ Nussbaum, Ania (26 July 2022). "Macron's $8.5 Billion Olympics Is Already Facing Soaring Costs". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2023.

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