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The Olympic rings in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
PARIS OJ – The start of the Paris Olympic Games will be given on Friday July 26, 2024 with the holding of an unprecedented opening ceremony, in front of 600,000 spectators along a six-kilometre stretch of the Seine.
For a little over two weeks, until Sunday August 11, the 10,500 athletes will try to win a medal in one of the 32 sports, divided into 48 disciplines, which will take place on one of the 35 sites in Paris, in Île-de-France, metropolitan France or overseas, as you can see in our two maps further down in the article.
The overwhelming majority of these sites (95%) are already existing (or temporary) infrastructures, such as the Roland-Garros stadium (tennis, boxing), the Stade de France (rugby at 7, athletics), the Arena Bercy (basketball, artistic gymnastics, trampoline), La Défense Arena (swimming, water polo) or the Parc des Princes (football).
Legendary sites in Paris will also serve as a setting for these Games, such as the Invalides (archery), Place de la Concorde (3×3 basketball, skateboarding, breaking, BMX) or the Champ-de-Mars (beach- volleyball).
Among the sites built for the event, we note in particular the Arena Porte de La Chapelle (rhythmic gymnastics, badminton) and its 8,000 seats, in the 18th arrondissement, or the Olympic Aquatic Center (artistic swimming, diving, water polo) with a capacity of 5,000 seats, right next to the Stade de France.
Shooting in Châteauroux, sailing in Marseille, surfing in Tahiti
Around thirty disciplines will take place within a radius of ten kilometers around the Athletes’ Village, located in Seine-Saint-Denis, and 85% of the athletes will be less than 30 minutes from their competition site.
Most of the football tournaments will take place in the provinces (Marseille, Nice, Nantes, Bordeaux, etc.), as will the shooting competitions, at the National Center for Sports Shooting near Châteauroux, or the sailing events, in Marseille.
The Pierre Mauroy stadium in Lille, which had already hosted the final phase of the Eurobasket in 2015 in a covered configuration, will host, in addition to the final phases of handball, again basketball matches – the preliminary phases -, after a controversy an initial choice of one of the halls of the Palais des Expositions at Porte de Versailles.
Surfing will be the furthest sport from Paris: the events will take place in Teahupoo on the island of Tahiti, in French Polynesia.
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