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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) does not officially recognize a ranking of participating countries at the Olympic Games. [1] Nevertheless, the IOC does publish medal tallies for information purposes, showing the total number of Olympic medals earned by athletes representing each country's respective National Olympic Committee . [ 2 ]
Paris 2024 Organizing Committee President Tony Estanguet unveiled the Olympic and Paralympic medals for the Games in February 2024, which on the obverse featured embedded hexagon-shaped tokens of scrap iron that had been taken from the original construction of the Eiffel Tower, with the Games' logo engraved into it. [18]
List of countries by public spending in tertiary education; List of countries ranked by ethnic and cultural diversity level; Dashboard of Sustainability (includes a ranking by Millennium Development Goals) Economist Intelligence Unit: Where-to-be-born Index; Gender Development Index; Gender Empowerment Measure; Gender Inequality Index; Global ...
Paris Club, a group of major creditor countries whose officials meet ten times a year in the city of Paris, with the intent to find coordinated and sustainable solutions to the payment difficulties experienced by debtor countries. PIGS, also PIIGS, the economies of the countries of Portugal, Greece, Spain, Italy and/or Ireland.
Paris 2024 was the first Olympics in history to reach full gender parity on the field of play, with equal numbers of male and female athletes. [ 12 ] The United States topped the medal table for the fourth consecutive Summer Games and 19th time overall , with 40 gold and 126 total medals. [ 13 ]
Neutral Paralympic Athletes was the name used to represent approved Russian and Belarusian athletes at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, after the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) banned the nations' previous designations due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
List of countries by GDP - official exchange rate 2019, ranked 8, out of 226 countries [1] World Economic Forum: Global Competitiveness Index 2006–2007, ranked 18 out of 125 countries; World Bank: Ease of Doing Business Index, ranked 31 out of 178 countries; World Tourism Organization: World Tourism rankings 2008, ranked 1 in tourist arrivals
[3] [4] A total of 11,417 athletes from 206 nations participated in 339 events in 33 sports across 50 different disciplines. [5] Overall, the event saw two records: 93 nations received at least one medal, and 65 of them won at least one gold medal.