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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.
Simone Biles leads U.S. to gymnastics gold in team final. The United States is back on top, earning 171.296 points to win the gold medal in the women's gymnastics team final. Team USA, lead by ...
t. e. Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were held between 1 and 11 August 2024, featuring a total of 48 medal events across three distinct sets: track and field, road running, and racewalking. [1] Four venues were used: Pont d'Iéna for race walking, Hôtel de Ville and Les Invalides for the start and end points of the marathon ...
e. Numerous world records and Olympic records were set in various events at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Some events, such as rowing, occur under variable weather conditions that can unfairly benefit an athlete's performance through no fault of their own. For these disciplines, there are no official records but rather Olympic best and ...
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) July 28, 2024 The victory sent the 17,000-seat swimming venue La Défense Arena into a frenzy and earned the 22-year-old swimmer a call from French ...
A total of 514 cyclists have competed at Paris 2024 with an equal split between men and women for the first time in the sport's history, attaining the goal of gender equality as one of the objectives ratified by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). Having already been achieved in mountain biking, BMX racing, and BMX freestyle on the Tokyo ...
Gannett. John Leuzzi, USA TODAY NETWORK. July 30, 2024 at 7:39 AM. Scottie Scheffler has chased and won golf's marquee event — the Masters — twice in his career. Now the World's No. 1 golfer ...