2024 Olympics in Paris!
What to see and who is participating?
The 2024 Olympic Games will be held in France from July 26 to August 11. The French capital, Paris, will be the main venue for the Games, but 16 other French cities, as well as the Pacific island of Tahiti in French Polynesia, will also host some sports.
It could also take place in Los Angeles!
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Six cities applied to organize the Olympic Games: Paris, Hamburg, Boston, Budapest, Rome and Los Angeles. However, in the end, only Paris and Los Angeles remained in the race, as their competitors withdrew for various reasons. Thus, the IOC has decided to entrust the French capital with hosting the 2024 Olympic Games, while Los Angeles in the United States will host the next Summer Games in 2028.
Venues for the 2024 Olympics
Most of the games will take place in Paris and its surrounding areas - Saint-Denis, Le Bourget, Nanterre, Versailles and Vere-sur-Marne. Basketball group stage matches and handball finals will be held in Lille at the Pierre Mauroy stadium.
In Marseille, fans will be able to attend sailing competitions and some football matches, which will also take place in Bordeaux, Lyon, Nantes, Nice and Saint-Etienne. You can easily travel between the cities by bus, train and car, but you can only fly to the surfing spot competition - it will take place in the village of Teahupoo in Tahiti, located 15,716 km from Paris.
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games will begin on Friday at 19:30 local time. Instead of the traditional ceremony, a boat parade along the Seine River is planned at the stadium, in which more than 10 thousand athletes on boats will take part.
What makes this Olympics unique?
The organizers of the Games in Paris this year approached the task of surprising the viewer in a very original and responsible way: some competitions will be held not in ordinary stadiums, but in non-standard venues. Beach volleyball will take place in a temporary outdoor stadium at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, the image of which will appear on every Olympic medal, and judo and wrestling (freestyle and Greco-Roman) competitions will be held on the Champs de Mars, which is located near the tower.
The Games were even moved to historical bridges! For example, from the Pont Alexandre III it will be possible to watch triathlons, open water swimming and road cycling races. In addition, the athletes’ route will pass through this historical monument during the opening ceremony of the Games.
Very close, on the Place de la Concorde, where the last monarchs of the country were executed during the French Revolution, competitions in 3x3 basketball, breakdancing, BMX freestyle and skateboarding will be held.
The Grand Palais, or as it was originally called the Grand Palais des Beaux-Arts, will host fencing and taekwondo competitions, while the legendary Les Invalides (war veterans' home) will host archery group stages, road cycling races and a marathon.
In a temporary outdoor arena on the grounds of the famous Palace of Versailles, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, athletes will compete for gold in equestrianism and modern pentathlon.
The Stade de France, known to all football fans, will be the arena for athletics and rugby sevens competitions. At the Roland Garros tennis complex, not only tennis players will fight for victory, important fights and boxing finals will also take place here
Sports at the Olympics
- Archery
- Athletics
- Badminton
- Basketball
- Boxing
- Brakedance
- Cycling
- Equestrian
- Fencing
- Field hockey
- Football
- Golf
- Gymnastics (sports, artistic, trampolining)
- Handball
- Judo
- Kayaking and canoeing
- Modern pentathlon
- Rowing
- Rugby 7
- Sailing
- Shooting
- Skateboarding
- Sport climbing
- Surfing
- Swimming, water polo, synchronized swimming, diving
- Table tennis
- Taekwondo
- Tennis
- Triathlon
- Volleyball
- Water sports (swimming, water polo, synchronized swimming, diving)
- Weightlifting
- Wrestling
The Olympics are the most interesting world sporting event that is definitely worth visiting. Finding your way around the city, despite all the maps and signs, is quite difficult, so having mobile internet on your eSIM will not be amiss. In addition, we offer special rates for France for 5, 10 and 20 GB with a discount until the end of the Olympics (August 11). Do not miss!
