Paris 2024 Olympics
On your marks, get set…
The time has come for the long-awaited Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics with more than 16 million visitors expected over the summer.
Official Trailer
Look of the Games
A bit of history
How did the Olympics all start?
4 new features of the modern Olympic Games
- Athletes are no longer naked. This nudity was a way of ensuring that no women took part in the Olympic Games pretending to be a man. Modern Olympics weren't mixed in 1986 either. The novelty on this side came in 1900 - women could now qualify for golf and tennis. Today, women are almost as numerous as men.
- The birth of the marathon. The event was invented as a tribute to a feat achieved 2,400 years earlier. A Greek messenger is said to have run the 42 km between Marathon beach and the city of Athens.
- First Winter Olympics. The first Winter Olympics were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France.
- First Paralympic Games. On June 29,1948, the Summer Games were held in London. The first archery competition for wheelchair athletes is organized. That will be the driving force behind the Paralympic Games which were first held in Rome in 1960. Since then, the Paralympic Games have also been held every 4 years.
The Olympic Torch Journey
The Olympic motto
The values of Olympism
The three values of Olympism are excellence, respect and friendship.
The medals
The emblem of Paris 2024 Olympics
The 3 symbols behind this face
- The gold medal
- Unalterable
- Brilliant
- Eternal
- The flame
- Olympic and Paralympic
- Rallying
- Bringing together and inspiring the greatest creators
- Marianne
- Equality
- Sharing
- Generosity
Culture at the Games
With 30 days to go until the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, discover what goes on behind the scenes of the games and its cultural side.
Opening ceremony Paris 2024 Olympics
Get ready
for a magnificent show, parades of athletes, and speeches. You will also hear the
Olympic anthem and see the raising of the Olympic flag.
“For the
first time in the history of the Olympic Summer Games, the Opening Ceremony
will not take place in a stadium. Paris 2024 is breaking new ground by bringing
sports into the city and the same will be true of the Opening Ceremony, set to
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. These boats will be equipped with cameras to allow
television and online viewers to see the athletes up close. Winding their way
from east to west, the 10,500 athletes will cross through the centre of Paris,
the overall playing field for the Games on which these competitors will display
their sporting prowess over the next 16 days. 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.
Holding a ceremony open to a large audience, with no admission fee for most of its spectators, is a major first.”
– Olympics.com
On Friday, July 26, 2024 from 7:30pm to 11pm, the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be held. This event will take place on the Seine between the Pont d'Austerlitz and the Pont d'Iéna.
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