Here's everything you need to know about the 34th Summer Olympics.
When will the 2024 Olympics take place?
The opening ceremony marking the official start of the 2024 Paris Olympics will be held on Friday, July 26.
But the real sports activities begin on July 24, with competitions in soccer, 7-a-side rugby, handball and archery.
The colorful opening ceremony will take place along the Seine River, instead of in a stadium like previous Olympics.
The first medals will be awarded on July 27 and the competition will end on August 11, with the closing ceremony taking place the same evening.
How many gold medals will there be at the 2024 Olympics?
The Olympics in Paris will have 329 events competing for gold medals, including 39 sets of medals awarded on the penultimate day of competition on August 10.
The first medal of the Olympics will belong to the shooting discipline - mixed air rifle - and is expected to be awarded at 4:30 p.m. (Vietnam time) on July 27
The final medal will be awarded to women's basketball at 0:30 (Vietnam time) on August 12.
What new sports will be available at Paris 2024?
The only new sport at the 2024 Olympics is breaking. This is a style of dance that originated in the Bronx in New York in the 1970s, but has developed into a competitive, exciting sport in recent years.
In Paris, the event will take place on the final days of competition, with the women's event taking place on August 9 and the men's event taking place on August 10. There will be 32 athletes in total. members, 16 men and 16 women will compete for medals.
Baseball/softball and karate were both introduced to competition in Tokyo three years ago, but were dropped from this Olympics.
In addition, at this year's Olympics, the synchronized swimming event for men was held for the first time.
What is the mascot of the Paris 2024 Olympics?
The mascot of this year's Olympics is the Phrygian hat - a symbol of freedom throughout French history and representing allegorical figures of the French republic.
The mascot's motto is "When we go alone, we go faster, but together, we go further."
Is there prize money at the Olympics?
The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has just announced that it will become the first international federation to award cash prizes at this year's Olympics. Accordingly, the IAAF will spend 2.4 million USD to reward athletes who win medals in Paris, of which the gold medal winner will receive 50,000 USD.
Will Russia be banned from the Olympics?
Russian and Belarusian athletes will be allowed to compete as neutral athletes, known as AIN (Individual Neutral Athletes). The International Olympic Committee said it will not attend the 2024 Olympic opening ceremony in Paris .
