The 2024 Summer Olympics, popularly known as the Paris Olympic Games will open on 26 July 2024, with a parade along the Seine and its canals, enabling hundreds of thousands of spectators along the riverbanks to share the moment with the athletes. This international multi-sport event is scheduled to take place from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in Paris with around 10,500 athletes (from over 200 national committees as well as a refugee team) competing in 329 events across 32 sports.

Paris 2024’s ambition is to offer Games that are for everyone; to do this they have set up celebration venues at the heart of Paris. The public will be able to share the experience of the Games with their champions through groundbreaking celebration initiatives such as the Champions Park, Club France, and the Park of Nations in La Villette.

While most of the Summer Games will be played within or in the outskirts of the city of Paris, ten of the 35 official venues are outside the host metro area, including in the French cities of Nice, Marseille, and Bordeaux. The surfing competition will take place 10,000 miles away on the waves off of the French Polynesian island of Tahiti.

Three sports will be absent from the City of Light, including karate, softball and the heavy hitter, baseball. Instead breaking, sport climbing, skateboarding, and surfing will be included.

Champions Park

For the first time in the history of the Summer Games, all the medal winners will be invited to meet and celebrate with thousands of fans at Trocadéro, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. Champions Park will be the go-to destination for sports fans from around the world to meet up and celebrate the medal-winning athletes, their achievements, and all the incredible stories that will mark the Games. The programme will also include performances by artists and cultural activities, helping to make Champions Park a complete and universal celebratory experience, in addition to a space for enjoying sport.

Mascot

Phryges the mascot will be led by one Olympic and one Paralympic Phrygian, the tribe of mascots will be central to Paris 2024’s vision to change lives by leading a revolution through sport. Their mission is to demonstrate to the world that sport can change everything and that it deserves to have a central role in society. The Phryges will strive to bring sport into everyday life – all sports, and every way of experiencing sport – whether through participation or as fans.

Sustainability

Paris 2024 organizers have emphasized their commitment to sustainability by using mostly pre-existing venues, such as the Stade de France—which is the home stadium of the French national soccer team and will be the site of the closing ceremony as well as several athletic events—in addition to eco-friendly temporary structures, including the Athletes’ Village, which was built on a former industrial wasteland site. Only one permanent competition venue—the Aquatics Centre in Saint-Denis—was built specifically for the 2024 Summer Games.

THE NEXT GAMES

The Summer Paralympics follows shortly after the Summer Games, starting on Aug. 28 and ending on Sept. 8. The Winter Olympics are set for February 2026 in the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo. And the next Summer Games will take place in Los Angeles from Fri, 14 July, 2028 – Sun, 30 July, 2028.

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