The International Olympic Committee (IOC) definitively validated this Monday during the meeting of the Executive Committee the addition of four additional sports during the 2024 Games in Paris: skateboarding, le breaking, climbing and surfing. The integration of these four disciplines is not a surprise, as the Organizing Committee for the 2024 Games (Cojo) has been pushing in this direction for several months. The competition sites had already been chosen.
Surfing will take place on the mythical Teahupoo wave in Tahitiskateboarding and breaking at the Place de la Concorde urban park, while climbing has finally moved to Le Bourgetin Seine-Saint-Denis to compensate for the departure in particular of swimming and volleyball.
The IOC also validated the entry of 8 new events: two in extreme slalom in canoeing, three mixed races in sailing, a mixed race in athletics (replacing the 50 km walk which is disappearing) and two weight categories in women’s boxing.
“Revolutionary Games”
However, these new events and disciplines will not affect the number of participants. In particular for the sake of savings, the IOC intends to limit the number of participants to 10,500. And great progress for 2024: the Olympic Committee has announced that there will be as many women as men, knowing that for the Tokyo Games, next summer , female representation will be 48.8%. Parity in 2024 is all the more a blink of an eye since it was in 1900, during the first Olympic Games in Paris, that women appeared on the program of events. They had been at the time 22 (men, 975) and represented only 2% of the participants!
“With the sports program unveiled by the IOC, Paris 2024 is consolidating the markers of its identity,” said Tony Estanguet, President of the Cojo. Major societal advance with, for the first time, a number of female athletes equivalent to that of men; audacity and youth with new sports and new spectacular events; sobriety with a reduction in the total number of athletes and events on the programme. More than ever, the conditions are met to make Paris 2024 revolutionary Games. »
