2024 Summer Olympics


The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, and commonly known as Paris 2024, is a forthcoming international multi-sport event that is scheduled to take place from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in Paris, France.
Having previously played host in 1900 and 1924, Paris will become the second city to host the Olympics three times, after London. 2024 will mark the centenary of the Paris Games of 1924, and the sixth Olympic Games hosted by France.
The bidding process for these Games began in 2015. Five cities submitted their candidature, but Hamburg, Rome and Budapest withdrew, leaving only Paris and Los Angeles in contention. A proposal to elect the 2024 and 2028 Olympic host cities concurrently was approved by an Extraordinary IOC Session on 11 July 2017 in Lausanne. On 31 July 2017, the IOC agreed a deal that would see Paris host the Games in 2024 and Los Angeles four years later. The formal announcement of this decision took place at the 131st IOC Session in Lima, Peru, on 13 September 2017.

Bidding process

, Hamburg, Budapest, Rome, and Los Angeles were the five candidate cities. However, the process was hit by withdrawals, with political uncertainty and cost cited as deterring bidding cities. Hamburg withdrew its bid on 29 November 2015 after holding a referendum. Rome withdrew on 21 September 2016 citing fiscal difficulties. On 22 February 2017, Budapest withdrew after a petition against the bid collected more signatures than necessary for a referendum.
Following these withdrawals, the IOC Executive Board met in Lausanne, Switzerland to discuss the 2024 and 2028 bid processes on 9 June 2017. The International Olympic Committee formally proposed electing the 2024 and 2028 Olympic host cities at the same time in 2017, a proposal which was approved by an Extraordinary IOC Session on 11 July 2017 in Lausanne. The IOC set up a process whereby the LA 2024 and Paris 2024 bid committees met with the IOC to discuss who would host the Games in 2024 and 2028, and whether it was possible to select the host cities for both at the same time.
Following the decision to award the two Games simultaneously, Paris was understood to be the preferred host for 2024. On 31 July 2017, the IOC announced Los Angeles as the sole candidate for 2028, enabling Paris to be confirmed as host for 2024. Both decisions were ratified at the 131st IOC Session on 13 September 2017.

Host city election

Paris was elected as the host city on 13 September 2017 at the 131st IOC Session in Lima, Peru. The two French IOC members, Guy Drut and Tony Estanguet were ineligible to vote under the rules of the Olympic Charter.
CityNationVotes
ParisUnanimous

Sports

In 2007, the IOC established the concept of Olympics including 28 sports: 25 permanent 'core' sports with three additional sports selected for each individual Games. On 8 September 2013, IOC added wrestling to the Olympic programme for the 2020 and 2024 Games, representing one of these additional sports. FILA changed freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling weight classes for men and decreased to six categories in order to add more weights for women. However, in August 2016, the IOC added five sports to the 2020 Olympics, with plans separately to evaluate the existing 28 sports. During the 131st IOC Session in September 2017, the IOC approved the 28 sports of the Rio 2016 program for Paris 2024, while also inviting the Paris Organising Committee to submit up to five additional sports for consideration.
In August 2017, the organising committee announced that it would hold talks with the IOC and professional esports organisations about the possibility of introducing competitive video gaming in 2024. However, in July 2018, the IOC confirmed that it would not consider esports for the 2024 Olympics.
On 21 February 2019, the Paris Organising Committee announced they would propose breakdancing as a new sport, along with surfing, sport climbing, and skateboarding, which will debut at the 2020 Summer Olympics. In June, breakdancing was approved. At the 134th IOC Session in Lausanne, Switzerland, IOC members approved all four sports for inclusion for 2024, subject to final approval by the IOC Executive Board in December 2020.
The 2024 Summer Olympic programme is scheduled to feature 28 sports encompassing 319 events, though this is likely to change depending on IOC approval of additional sports in the programme. The number of events in each discipline is noted in parentheses.
Most of the Olympic events will be held in and around Paris, including the suburbs of Saint-Denis, Le Bourget, Nanterre, Versailles, and Vaires-sur-Marne which is just outside the city environs. The sailing and surfing events will be held in the remote coastal resorts of Marseille and Teahupo'o respectively. Football will be hosted in various cities around France.

Grand Paris zone

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Paris Centre zone

VenueEventsCapacityStatus
Parc des PrincesFootball48,583Existing
Stade Roland GarrosCourt Philippe Chatrier
Tennis
Volleyball 		15,000Existing
Stade Roland GarrosCourt Suzanne Lenglen
Boxing		10,000Existing
Stade Roland GarrosCourt Simonne Mathieu and secondary courts
Tennis		9,000 Existing
Paris-Bercy ArenaBasketball 7,500Existing
Paris-Bercy ArenaWrestling7,500Existing
Paris-Bercy ArenaBasketball15,000Existing
Paris-Bercy ArenaJudo15,000Existing
Stade Jean-BouinRugby20,000Existing
Champ de MarsBeach volleyball12,000Temporary
SeineMarathon 13,000
Temporary
SeineRacewalking 13,000
Temporary
SeineMarathon swimming13,000
Temporary
SeineTriathlon 13,000
Temporary
Paris expo Porte de VersaillesHandball12,000Temporary
Paris expo Porte de VersaillesTable tennis6,000Temporary
Parque de sport urbanique de Champs-ÉlyséesRoad cycling 30,000Temporary
Parque de sport urbanique de Champs-ÉlyséesBasketball 3x330,000Temporary
Parque de sport urbanique de Champs-ÉlyséesBreak Dancing30,000Temporary
Parque de sport urbanique de Champs-ÉlyséesMarathon 30,000Temporary
Parque de sport urbanique de Champs-ÉlyséesRacewalking 30,000Temporary
Parque de sport urbanique de Champs-ÉlyséesSkateboarding30,000Temporary
Parque de sport urbanique de Champs-ÉlyséesSport Climbing30,000Temporary
Parque de sport urbanique de Champs-ÉlyséesTriathlon 30,000Temporary
Grand PalaisFencing8,000Existing
Grand PalaisTaekwondo8,000Existing
Halle Georges CarpentierVolleyball 8,000Renovated/Expanded
Les InvalidesArchery6,000Temporary
Stade Pierre de CoubertinVolleyball 4,836Existing
Dôme de ParisWeightlifting4,600Existing

Versailles zone

VenueEventsCapacityStatus
Château de VersaillesEquestrian and cycling 80,000
Temporary
Château de VersaillesModern pentathlon 80,000
Temporary
Le Golf NationalGolf35,000Existing
Élancourt HillMountain biking25,000Existing
Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-YvelinesTrack cycling10,000 Existing
Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-YvelinesBMX 10,000 Existing

Outlying venues

VenueEventsCapacityStatus
Vaires-sur-MarneRowing22,000Existing
Vaires-sur-MarneKayak22,000Existing
Vaires-sur-MarneCanoe slalom22,000Existing
MarseilleSailing5,000Existing
Teahupo'oSurfingExisting

Non-competitive venues

Provisional football venues

On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency banned Russia from all international sport for four years, after it found that the Russian government had tampered with lab data that it provided to WADA in January 2019 as a condition of its reinstatement of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency. As at the 2018 Winter Olympics, WADA will allow individual cleared Russian athletes to compete neutrally under a title to be determined. WADA Compliance Review Committee head Jonathan Taylor stated that the IOC would not be able to use "Olympic Athletes from Russia" as it did in 2018, specifically emphasizing that neutral athletes are to not to be portrayed as representing Russia.

Marketing

Concerns and controversies

Call for hijab ban

In February 2019, a French feminist group called on the organisers of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris to ban the hijab and other items of Islamic clothing during the Games, to ensure female Muslim athletes can compete free from religious restrictions. Annie Sugier, a prominent member of the group, highlighted that the Olympic Charter states no kind of "religious propaganda" is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas. In 2010, the French government passed a law banning full face veils such as the niqab in public, imposing fines to everyone who break the law. The law caused significant controversy and was challenged at the European Court of Human Rights, which upheld the ban in 2014. Despite the ECHR ruling, in October 2018, the United Nations Human Rights Council declared the law a violation of human rights that risked confining Muslim women to their homes.

2020 COVID-19 Pandemic effect

After the COVID-19 pandemic led to the postponement of the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo in March 2020, the head of the organising committee for the Paris Games said they would go ahead as planned in "summer 2024". However the devastating effects of the coronavirus in many IOC countries including France have caused speculation towards the idea of delaying the 2024 Olympics to 2025.

Broadcasting rights

In France, domestic rights to the 2024 Summer Olympics are owned by Discovery Inc. via Eurosport, with free-to-air coverage sub-licensed to the country's public broadcaster France Télévisions.
These will be the final Olympics to be broadcast by SBS in North and South Korea, with JTBC assuming broadcast rights beginning with the 2026 Winter Olympics.