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Olympics 2024
July 28 , 2024
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- The 2024 Summer Olympics is held from July 26 to August 11 this year at Paris, France.
- This is the third time Paris is hosting the Summer Olympics, almost a century after it last hosted in 1924.
- About 5804 medals will be distributed during the Games.
- London is the only other city to have hosted the Games three times (in 1908, 1948, and 2012).
- The Games will feature 329 events in 32 sports.
- It is including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee.
- For the first time that the opening ceremony for an edition of the Summer Olympics is held out of the traditional setting of an Olympic Stadium.
- Both Olympic and Paralympic medals carry a piece of iron from the Eiffel Tower, which was recovered during a recent renovation.
- Russia and Belarus are banned from the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris due to their involvement in the ongoing Ukraine war.
- But 15 athletes from Russia and 18 from Belarus are set to compete as “Individual Neutral Athletes” or AINs.
- Competing under the AIN means that Russian and Belarusian flags, national anthems and uniforms will not be allowed at the Paris Games.
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