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This is Marianne, an enduring symbol of France since the French Revolution. A Paris 2024 banner logo at the Grand Palais. (David Davies/PA Images via Getty Images) (David Davies - PA Images via ...
The 2024 Summer Olympics (French: Les Jeux Olympiques d'été de 2024), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (French: Jeux de la XXXIIIe olympiade de l'ère moderne) and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in France, with several events started from 24 July.
Marianne, image of France. These symbols reveal a face that embodies our ambition to put people at the heart of the Games." Paris 2024 Paralympic logo at the Grand Rex cinema (Credit: Getty Images)
The Paris 2024 emblem is visible on their chests, [3] and their eyes are adorned by tricolor ribbons portraying the French flag, paying homage to the cockade of France. [ 3 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The Olympic Phryge has two blue sneakers, while the Paralympic Phryge wears a prosthesis and a red sneaker on the other leg.
The system was developed in partnership with Électricité de France (EDF), France's state-owned energy company. [4] During the Olympic Games, the Olympic flame was kept in the same lantern in which it traveled from Greece to French territory through the Mediterranean Sea in May 2024 and was protected by armored glass on display to the side in ...
The first official Olympic mascot dates back to the 1968 Grenoble Games in France when "Shuss," a big-headed fellow on skis, debuted. Later Games took the mascot creation more seriously, and their ...
The 2024 Summer Olympics were the first Olympic games in over thirty years to not have a home console video game tie-in. [5] [6] Since 2007, official Olympic video games had been developed by Nintendo and Sega with the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series, but the International Olympic Committee chose not to renew their contract for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
The city's iconic Arc De Triomphe was lit with the city's 2024 Olympic Games bid logo at 20:24 local time. A multi-coloured image of the Eiffel Tower with the words, "Paris, Candidate city, Olympic Games 2024" was screened onto the Arc at the top of the Champs-Élysées and on the town hall in Marseille. [57]