All you need to know about the Paris 2024 Olympics

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The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will showcase 3,800 hours of unrecorded athletics and grant 329 golden medals successful 32 sports complete 18 days of title crossed nan superior and successful different parts of France.

Here is each you request to cognize astir nan 34th summertime Olympics.

The opening ceremonial to awesome nan charismatic commencement of nan Paris 2024 Olympics will beryllium held connected Friday, 26 July.

But nan sporting action really originates connected Wednesday, 24 July pinch excavation matches successful football, rugby sevens, handball and archery.

The eager opening ceremonial will return spot on nan River Seine alternatively of successful a stadium.

The first medals will beryllium awarded a time later and title will reason connected 11 August, pinch nan closing ceremonial later that evening.

The women's 100m last will beryllium held astatine 20:20 BST connected Saturday, 3 August, and a small complete 24 hours later, astatine 20:50 BST connected 4 August, it will beryllium nan men's 100m final. Both will return spot astatine nan Stade de France, wherever each nan way and section events are being held.

There are 329 golden badge events astatine Paris 2024 pinch a whopping 39 medals being won connected nan penultimate time of competition, Saturday, 10 August.

The first badge of nan Games will beryllium successful shooting - mixed squad aerial firearm - and that is expected to beryllium won astatine 10:30 BST connected Saturday, 27 July.

The last badge will beryllium awarded successful women's hoops astatine 16:30 BST connected Sunday, 11 August.

The only caller athletics for nan 2024 Olympics is breaking. It is simply a style of creation that originated successful nan Bronx successful New York during nan 1970s but has has evolved to go a competitory sport.

In Paris, breaking will not beryllium seen until nan second portion of nan Games, pinch nan women's arena taking spot connected 9 August and nan men's connected 10 August. A full of 32 entrants, 16 men and 16 women will compete for nan medals.

Baseball/softball and karate some featured successful Tokyo 3 years agone but person been dropped for these Olympics.

Other tweaks to sports see a alteration successful format for sport climbing. In Tokyo, location was only 1 badge connected connection for some nan men and women but successful Paris location will beryllium a mixed badge for lead and bouldering and a abstracted badge arena for velocity climbing.

Kayak cross will besides makes its debut. It is simply a shape of canoe slalom but 4 athletes successful each power title against each other, not conscionable nan clock.

In sailing 2 kite events person been added to nan programme, windsurfer – iQFoil and kiteboarding.

And successful artistic swimming, men are included for nan first clip successful Olympic history and location will besides beryllium a squad acrobatic regular information making its debut.

Team GB are still finalising their squad for nan Games but are expecting astir 350 athletes to return part.

They won 64 medals successful Tokyo and information experts Nielsen Gracenote presently foretell a full of 62 successful Paris.

Meet Olympic Phryge.

The sanction is based connected nan accepted mini Phrygian hats nan Olympic and Paralympic mascots are shaped after.

It is simply a awesome of state done French history and represents allegorical figures of nan French republic.

The motto of nan mascots is "Alone we spell faster, but together we spell further."

World Athletics has announced it will go nan first world federation to grant prize money astatine nan Olympic Games.

The world governing assemblage said a full prize cookware of $2.4m (£1.9m) has been made disposable for this summer's Olympics successful Paris, pinch golden medallists receiving $50,000 (£39,400).

Russian and Belarusian athletes will beryllium allowed to compete arsenic neutral athletes, known arsenic AIN (Individual Neutral Athletes).

They will not return portion successful nan opening ceremonial astatine nan 2024 Olympics successful Paris, says nan International Olympic Committee.

The Paris Olympics will beryllium unrecorded crossed BBC TV, power and online.

Paris is 1 hr up of nan UK and nan mostly of nan action will return spot from 08:00 BST to 23:00 BST each day, though immoderate events specified arsenic nan marathons, title walks and triathlons are starting somewhat earlier.

You tin watch each nan large moments unrecorded connected 2 BBC channels arsenic good arsenic connected BBC iPlayer and nan BBC Sport website and app.

BBC Radio 5 Live and Sports Extra will besides bring you unrecorded commentary each day, and location will beryllium unrecorded text, video clips and highlights connected nan BBC Sport website and app and crossed our societal channels.

Events are taxable to change. The BBC is not responsible for immoderate changes that are made. Some sports person remainder days not listed below.

Opening ceremony: 26 July, River Seine

Archery: 25 July to 4 August, Invalides

Artistic gymnastics: 25 July to 4 August, Bercy Arena

Artistic swimming: 5-10 August, Bercy Arena

Athletics: 1-11 August, Stade de France (track & field), Trocadero (race walks), Invalides (marathons)

Badminton: 27 July to 5 August, La Chapelle Arena

3x3 Basketball: 30 July to 5 August, La Concorde

Basketball: 27 July to 11 August, Pierre Mauroy Stadium (group phase) & Bercy Arena (finals)

Beach volleyball: 27 July to 10 August, Eiffel Tower Stadium

Boxing: 27 July to 10 August, North Paris Arena & Roland-Garros Stadium

Breaking: 9-10 August, La Concorde

Canoe slalom: 27 July to 5 August, Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium - White water

Canoe sprint: 6-10 August, Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium - Flat water

Cycling BMX: 30 July to 2 August, La Concorde (freestyle), BMX Stadium (racing)

Cycling upland bike: 28-29 July, Elancourt Hill

Cycling road: 27 July to 4 August, Pont Alexandre III (time trials), Trocadero (road races)

Cycling track: 5-11 August, National Velodrome

Diving: 27 July to 10 August, Aquatics Centre

Equestrian: 27 July to 6 August, Chateau de Versailles

Fencing: 27 July to 4 August, Grand Palais

Football: 24 July to 10 August, Bordeaux Stadium, Geoffroy-Guichard Stadium, La Beaujoire Stadium, Lyon Stadium, Marseille Stadium, Nice Stadium & Parc de Princes (finals)

Golf: 1-10 August, Le Golf National

Handball: 25 July to 11 August, South Paris Arena (group stage), Pierre Mauroy Stadium (knockout phase)

Hockey: 27 July to 9 August, Yves-du-Manoir Stadium

Judo: 27 July to 3 August, Champ-de-Mars Arena

Marathon swimming: 8-9 August, Pont Alexandre III

Modern pentathlon: 8-11 August, North Paris Arena (ranking round), Chateau de Versailles

Rhythmic gymnastics: 8-10 August, La Chapelle Arena

Rowing: 27 July to 3 August, Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium - Flat water

Rugby sevens: 24-30 July, Stade de France

Sailing: 28 July to 8 August, Marseille Marina

Shooting: 27 July to 5 August, Chateauroux Shooting Centre

Skateboarding: 27 July to 7 August, La Concorde