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Myanmar competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's nineteenth appearances at the Summer Olympics, since the official debut at the 1948, which competed mostly under the name Burma, except for 1976. Myanmar failed to win a medal at the Paris Olympics 2024.
As of 2024, no Burmese athlete has ever won an Olympic medal. [1] Kay Thi Win placed fourth in Weightlifting at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 48 kg . The National Olympic Committee for Myanmar was created in 1946 by Zaw Weik and recognized by the International Olympic Committee that same year.
Although the 2024 Winter Youth Olympics held in Gangwon were the first to have a ticket-holding audience following the end of the COVID-19 pandemic, this was the first time in the senior Olympics since the 2018 Winter Olympics to allow international spectators, after the 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony having a reduced number of local ...
T he Paris Summer Olympics opening ceremony has already garnered much attention, from a freshly-decapitated Marie Antoinette—who was still singing—to an emotional performance by Celine Dion ...
The Games kicked off on July 26 with a bang, thanks to an Opening Ceremony that featured performances from Celine Dion, Lady Gaga, and Aya Nakamura. From there, the headline-grabbing moments only ...
Greed and ambition for power was evident at closing of 2024 Olympics, which doesn't offer a seamless transition to 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Directed by Thomas Jolly, [125] [126] [127] it was the first Summer Olympics opening ceremony to be held outside the traditional stadium setting (and the second ever after the 2018 Youth Olympic Games one, held at Plaza de la República in Buenos Aires); the parade of athletes was conducted as a boat parade along the Seine from Pont d ...
The 2024 Paris Olympics mascot is a little red hat, known as a Phrygian cap (or a liberty cap), which is a symbol of the French revolutionaries. They are also seen at every town hall and on French ...