Upcoming Olympics on 26th July 2024, Paris

The 2024 Summer Olympics which is also known as Paris 2024 scheduled to take effect on 26th July to 11th August 2024. Paris, the capital and at the same time the most populous city of France has been awarded as the hosting city of the Olympic Games 2024. Although it still has few more years to go it is not too earlier to get excited for this amazing multi sports event which unifying the people in each country for peace through sports.

131st International Olympic Committee (IOC) session in Lima, Peru in awarding the hosting city a golden opportunity has been taken place in Olympics history that award the both 2024 and 2028 Olympic Games simultaneously to Paris and Los Angeles respectively by following a Tripartite agreement between these two candidate cities and IOC. The president of IOC Thomas Bach termed this incident as a golden opportunity as it leads to significant cost reduction in organising the Olympic Games and will have more sustainable and more feasible games as a positive output of this decision.

There are several essential things you should know related to Paris 2024 while counting days for this wonderful event.

Paris has got the opportunity to host the Summer Olympics for third time in 2024 with the previously hosted years 1900 and 1924. It is the second city who got this opportunity after London (1908, 1948, and 2012). Olympics 2024, the third Olympics host of Paris will mark the century to their second hosting in 1924. It can be identified as a considerable incident in Olympic history. With the three other Winter Olympics hosted by France, 2024 Olympics will be the sixth to be held in France.

Breaking will be introduced to 2024 Olympic which comprises 32 sports covering 306 events. Breaking can be identified as a competitive form of break-dancing, athletic movements using foot, back and head. This new addition to Olympics will create more urban, younger and more gender balanced event. This breaking became more popular after 2018 Summer Youth Olympics and officially added some new sports such as surfing, rock climbing and skateboarding in 2020.

Wave surfing competition begins in 2024 will be held in Tahiti, the largest island in French Polynesia chosen after considering other four potential locations in mainland France. As it located 15, 700 kilo meters away from Paris, the competition will renew the record for the furthest Olympic medal races from outside of the host city.

In 2019 when the logo of Paris 2024 revealed, it marked unique moment in Olympic and Paralympics history that both events used the same logo for the first time. This described as the "face" of the Olympics, comprising with combination of three symbols: gold medal, the fire and Marianne, a symbol of revolution and a beloved figure of freedom of French people. Also it will emphasise that the sole purpose of these two events is to bring the Olympic and Paralympics athletes together in a same level and celebrate in a same way.

For the first time at the Olympics 2024 Paris Olympics has introduced a grater Marathon, which opens for amateur athletes will be held on the same day as the event or professional athletes. This marathon will not be started at the same time in parallel with the elite competition, but amateur athletes will run on the same track and under the same conditions as in the Olympics. Paris 2024 website invites people all over France to draw inspiration from athletic mentality, Olympic values and integrate them into their daily lives. In order to allow and share this amazing experience among many people, they are offered several different formats, so that everyone can enjoy this exceptional moment.

Further Paris will arrange most accessible opening ceremony for Summer Olympics, 2024 in a remarkable manner in Olympic history on the river Seine with more than 160 boats which filled with athletes and officials from countries who participating Olympics. All these functions are in the hands of Tony Estanguet who the president of the Paris 2024. They hope to sell 13.4 million tickets as 10 million for Olympics and 3.4 million for Paralympics and it will be a unique amount of tickets which makes Paris 2024 unique.

When considering the history of Olympics the ancient Olympic Games which was a part of religious festival was began in the year 776 BC and it include only athletic games. The first modern Olympics were held after 1503 years in 1896, Athens, Greece. In those times the marathon was considered as the core activity of the Olympic but today, it has developed more and Olympics is much more than a run. It stands based on three pillars; “move, learn and discover – together for a better world”. The culture of Olympics has been entirely changed; in past they mainly focused youth but today games are conducted regardless of age, gender and social background of the people. It makes everyone in the world become a part of the Olympics and combines the entire world with peace.