We now know the schedule for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (July 26 – August 11). The organizers announced this Friday 1is avril 2022. “This calendar perfectly reflects the ambition of Paris 2024 to offer spectacular and popular Games. This calendar is the result of a long collective effort involving, alongside Paris 2024, the international sports movement, the host broadcaster of the OBS Games and public players to offer the best possible experience to athletes and spectators alike.”they promise in a press release.
A total of 32 sports are on the program for 329 events and 762 sessions… Here is everything you need to know about the calendar of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Competitions from July 24 and medals from July 27
Competitions will start two days before the opening ceremony. Thus, on Wednesday July 24, 2024, three team sports will open the ball: handball at the Pierre-Mauroy stadium in Lille, rugby at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis and football in the seven cities hosting the women’s and men’s tournaments. (Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Nice and Saint-Étienne).
Paris 2024 also specifies that medals will be awarded the day after the opening ceremony. “The calendar was built to experience the Games to the fullest, right from the start! », launch the organizers. On Saturday 27 July, eight sports will see their first finals and give rise to medals: cycling with the women’s and men’s time trials, judo, fencing, diving, rugby, shooting, swimming and skateboarding, which will be the first of the urban sports to enter the scene.
Team athletes highlighted
The organizers want to highlight team sports. To do this, the women’s and men’s finals of field hockey, handball, football, beach volleyball, volleyball, basketball and water polo will be spread over four days, between Thursday August 8 and Sunday August 11, “for a real final bouquet. »
Note that the place that will host the start of basketball competitions is not yet known after the controversy at the Parc des expositions de Versailles.
No event before 7:30 a.m.
In order to make the entire competition accessible, the organizers announce that the events will never start before 7:30 a.m. and will end at a maximum of 11:30 p.m. on weekdays and midnight on Friday and Saturday. The final sessions will give rise, with some exceptions, to a medal ceremony.
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The road and Seine events spread over the entire period of the Games
The road events, always very popular, will be distributed throughout the Olympic Games. In cycling, the “time trials” will be contested on D + 1, on Saturday July 27; the triathlon events will take place on D + 4, 5 and 10, i.e. Tuesday July 30, Wednesday July 31 and Monday August 5; the walking competitions will criss-cross the streets of Paris on D + 6 (Thursday 1is August) and D + 12 (Wednesday August 7); the road cycling in-line events will be scheduled for Saturday August 3 and Sunday August 4 (D + 8 and D + 9); the marathon swimming, contested in the waters of the Seine, will be scheduled for Thursday August 8 and Friday August 9 (D+13 and D+14). Finally, the marathon events (women and men) will take place on the last weekend of the Games.
Trials on the Place de la Concorde
Place de la Concorde will be a central location for these Paris 2024 Games. In the press release, the organizers announce that it will host “Almost continuously from D+1 (Saturday July 27) to D+15 (Saturday August 10) four hyper-spectacular sports, which will never evolve at the same time, in order to offer everyone the best possible visibility. Street skateboard athletes will be the first to compete at the foot of the Obelisk. »
Another announcement from the organizers, the finals of the swimming events, disputed in the basin of the Arena Paris La Défense, and athletics, at the Stade de France, will take place in the evening.
Athletes will take part in a minimum ceremony
All athletes will be able to experience at least one of the two ceremonies (opening and closing) of these Paris 2024 Olympic Games. No competition will be scheduled for Friday afternoon July 26, the day of the opening ceremony, to allow a maximum of sportsmen to go there.
“Athletes playing in Lille for handball (no match scheduled on D + 1 in the morning) or in Marseille for sailing (start of competitions on D + 2, Sunday July 28) will thus benefit from an adapted calendar, allowing them to live “live” in Paris the opening ceremony on the Seine”explain the organizers.
A spectacular weekend of August 3 and 4
Finally, this is one of the strong announcements of the press release. The weekend of August 3 and 4, the organizers promise two intense days for fifteen sports with finals: tennis, table tennis, judo (with the mixed team event which crowned France in Tokyo), fencing , athletics, archery, shooting, cycling (with online races), golf, horse riding, rowing, artistic gymnastics, badminton and swimming.
