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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.
Eight Games have been hosted in Asia (all in East Asia), three in Eastern Europe, and two in Latin America. Africa has yet to host an Olympic Games. Other major geographic regions and subcontinents that have never hosted the Olympics include the Middle East, Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent , Southeast Asia, Antarctica , and the Caribbean .
For the first thirteen Olympics, the stadion footrace was the only event contested, [10]: p. 145 [19] and victory in that sprint was so valued that the next Olympiad was named after the winner, e.g. "the third year of the eighteenth Olympiad when Ladas of Argos won the stadion."
The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inaugural Games took place in 1896 in Athens , then part of the Kingdom of Greece , and the most recent was held in 2024 in Paris , France.
Awarded to host the Games of the I Olympiad (sole bid) 23 June 1894 1st in Paris, France [i] II: 1900: Paris France: Awarded to host the Games of the II Olympiad (sole bid) 23 June 1894 1st in Paris, France [i] III: 1904: Chicago United States: Awarded to host the Games of the III Olympiad (moved to St. Louis) 22 May 1901 4th in Paris, France ...
The candidature process for the 2024 Games was announced at the same time as the names of the five candidate cities on 16 September 2015. [4] The procedure consisted of three stages: Stage 1 – Vision, games concept and strategy; Stage 2 – Governance, legal and venue funding; and Stage 3 – Games delivery, experience and venue legacy.
Germany did not return to Olympic competition until 1928 and instead hosted a series of games called Deutsche Kampfspiele, starting with the Winter edition of 1922 (which predated the first Winter Olympics). The United States won the most gold and overall medals at the 1920 Summer Games.
[9] [10] The 1904 Games, held in St. Louis were the first Olympics outside of Europe, with very few top-class athletes from outside the North America taking part, and saw the participation of 12 to 15 nations, including a not yet existing Union of South Africa represented by a Boer team of extras from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.