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Tatiana Rentería qualified for the games by virtue of top five results through the 2023 World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. [52] Meanwhile, the others wrestler qualified for Paris 2024 qualified for the games after advancing to the final round at 2024 Pan American Olympic Qualification Tournament in Acapulco, Mexico. [53] [54]
The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France, from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with preliminary events in some sports beginning on 24 July. [1] Athletes representing 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in the games. [2]
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
Colombia won their first olympic medals at the Munich Olympics in 1972, forty years after making its debut in the games. The first one was a silver medal won by shooter Helmut Bellingrodt in the 50 metre running target event, [ 14 ] both Clemente Rojas and Alfonso Pérez won each one a bronze medal in boxing at those games too, bringing the ...
2024 Summer Olympics: Usme, Paví [141] 169 28 July 2024: Stade de Lyon, Décines-Charpieu (A) New Zealand: 2–0 2024 Summer Olympics: Restrepo, Santos [142] 170 31 July 2024: Stade de Nice, Décines-Charpieu (A) Canada: 0–1 2024 Summer Olympics [143] 171 3 August 2024: Stade de Lyon, Décines-Charpieu (A) Spain: 2–2 (2–4p) 2024 Summer ...
Actor Tom Cruise jumps from the roof of the Stade de France during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games on August 11, 2024, in Paris, France. / Credit: Fabrizio Bensch/Pool/Getty Image.
This is a chronological summary of the major events of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and other venues in Metropolitan France, plus one subsite in Tahiti in the overseas country of French Polynesia. Competition began on 24 July with the first matches in the group stages of football and rugby sevens events.
The route, specially designed for the Paris 2024 Games and approved by World Athletics, was unique, demanding, and technical. Paris 2024 unveiled the routes for the Olympic marathon and the two races – a 42.195 km course and a 10 km course – open to the general public as part of the mass event running. [5]