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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, was an international multi-sport event held from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in France, with several events started from 24 July. Paris was the host ...
The French Olympic Committee commissioned Mathieu Lehanneur (born 1974), [1] [2] to design the cauldron, torch, and ceremonial cauldrons along the torch relay route: Lehanneur developed a concept of having these three items symbolise France's national motto, "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" ("Liberty, equality, fraternity"), and gold, silver, and bronze medals respectively. [3]
The Village olympique de Saint-Denis is an Olympic Village based in Seine-Saint-Denis (Île-de-France) that is specifically built for the athletes of the 2024 Summer Olympics and the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris. [1] [2] The building design is loosely inspired by the Barcelona Olympic Village.
Here are some of the best photos from the Summer Olympics: The sun sets during play in the Women’s Pool A match between Netherlands and France at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Stade Yves Du ...
At the 2024 Olympics, the same stadium is hosting the hockey events. (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (Keystone via Getty Images) It’s not often a stadium is used in multiple Olympiads ...
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July 2024 across Paris, beginning at 19:30 CEST (17:30 UTC).As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proceedings included an artistic program showcasing the culture of the host country and city, the parade of athletes and the lighting of the Olympic cauldron.
Modern pentathlon spent much of the 2010s trying to justify its Olympic existence, and an incident in Tokyo in 2021 might well have spelled the end of the sport as an Olympic event.
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games bid relaunched the project. In June 2016, the public interest group in charge of the Paris 2024 bid decided to locate the Olympic aquatic centre in Saint-Denis on a site then occupied by Engie's research centre, located west of the Stade de France, separated from it by the Avenue du Président-Wilson.