The 2024 Paris Olympics opened on July 26. Some competitions will start 2 days before, but the main event will actually start from the Opening Ceremony. At that time, Paris will mark the second city after London to host the Olympics 3 times.
The French capital hosted the second Olympics in 1900 and the second in 1924. This year's Games mark the 100th anniversary of that time.
It can be said that many things have changed in the world since Paris last hosted. What are those changes?
Perhaps the first thing that impressed you when looking back at Paris 1924) was the event schedule. The tournament started on May 4 and ended on July 27, with 17 sports and 126 medal events - lasting about a month. In contrast, the 2024 Olympics will have nearly double the number of sports (32) and 329 medal events, but in just about 2 weeks.
Next is the Olympic program. Most of the sports held in 1924 will continue into 2024. It should be noted that women's events have not yet been included in most competition events, including athletics, football, wrestling and boxing.
For football, the 1924-th Olympics are considered the first world championship in any form. The titles won here and in 1928 are two cases in which FIFA, the global football regulatory agency, considered the Olympic gold medal equivalent to the World Cup title.
Paris 1923, the last time tennis will be included in the Olympic program until it returns in Seoul 1988
This is also the last time football has been seen in the form of 15 players, this sport only returned in Rio 2016 with 7 players.
The 1924-Olympics marked the first time athletes were in the Olympic Village. The organizers set up wooden tents and established a reception center near the Olympique de Colombes Stadium, now Yves-du-Manoir Stadium, and called it the "Olympic Village", allowing different world teams to be in the same location, under the same conditions, with regular services.
The village for the 2024 Olympics is located 5 minutes from the Saint-Denis Stadium, 7km from the center of the French capital. It is designed to serve more than 14,000 guests.
In terms of the number of athletes, 100 years ago, there were exactly 3,089 athletes (135 female and 2,954 male) from 44 countries. Ecuador, Ireland, litva, the Philippines and Uruguay have delegations attending for the first time.
Ukraine and Poland are also participating in the summer Olympics for the first time, but a few months before that they attended the Winter Olympics in Chamonix.
In total, 44 National Olympic Committees (NOC) have representatives at the 2024 Olympics.
At the 2024 Olympics, it is expected that there will be about 10,500 athletes representing more than 200 countries.
Some other details:
In 1924, the Olympics were held at 19 locations, this year, the event took place at 35 locations.
In 1924, 635,000 people came to watch the event live, in 2024, the Organizing Committee announced that 8.6 million tickets had been sold.
100 years ago, there were more than 1,000 reporters reporting, this year's event had more than 6,000.
