There are only days to go until the best athletes in the world will begin representing their country in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Olympic Games are being held in the French capital for the first time in 100 years and stars will be arriving in Europe soon aiming for gold.
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At the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, Team GB came away with 64 medals in total and finished fourth in the overall leaderboards.
Tom Daley and Adam Peaty were among the gold medal winners for Britain and will be back again.
For those who do win gold, they will now receive prize money after World Athletics announced a major change to the event.
A prize pot of $2.4m (£1.9m) has been made available, with gold medallists receiving $50,000 (£39,400).
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The games are fast approaching so here’s everything you need to know about the Paris Olympics…
When is the Paris Olympics starting and when will the opening ceremony be staged?
The opening ceremony takes place on Friday, July 26.
But the action will actually start on Wednesday, 24 July, with football, rugby sevens, handball and archery kicking things off.
The opening ceremony will then be held 48 hours later, and will get going on Friday evening at 7.30pm local time. With France an hour ahead of the United Kingdom, that is 6.30pm UK time.
For the first time in history, the opening ceremony of an Olympic Games will not take place in a stadium.
It will be staged along the Seine, with thousands of athletes parading in boots along the river that flows through Paris, in front of hundreds of thousands of spectators.
There will be boats for each national delegation, which will be equipped with cameras to allow viewers watching on TV and online to get a close-up view of all the action.
The athletes will pass major landmarks such as the Louvre, Notre-Dame and Place de la Concorde on a 6km route, before ending in front of the Trocadéro, where the final elements of the ceremony and the celebratory shows will take place.
The games will be known as Paris 2024 and the Olympics and Paralympics will share the slogan ‘Games Wide Open’.
How can I listen to live commentary of the Paris Olympics?
talkSPORT have secured the rights to cover the Olympic Games.
This is the first time the rights to broadcast the event have been available on commercial radio.
A number of talkSPORT’s multi-award-winning presenters and pundits will provide fans with unlimited coverage and content from Paris.
talkSPORT.com will also keep you up to date with all the latest news with a live blog.
To tune in to talkSPORT or talkSPORT 2 through the website, click HERE for the live stream.
You can also listen via the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM.
How can I watch the Paris Olympics on TV?
The entirety of the 2024 Paris Olympics will be broadcast live on the BBC and Eurosport.
Events will be shown across all of the BBC’s channels in the UK, with BBC One and BBC Two broadcasting over 250 hours of live coverage across the entire 16-day event
This can be viewed for free on TV as well as live streamed through the BBC Website or BBC iPlayer via tablet or mobile devices.
Discovery+ will have 3,800 hours of live coverage of the Olympics through Eurosport, with fans able to subscribe here.
Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2 will broadcast action across every day of competition, with live coverage from 7am -10.30pm daily.
Both Eurosport 1 and 2 will be available on Discovery+, along with seven event-curated Eurosport ‘pop-up’ channels.
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Which venues are being used at the Paris Olympics?
There are 34 competition venues in total. Nineteen are in Paris itself and another five in the surrounding Ile de France region, with the remainder being football stadia around the country, the National Shooting Centre in Chateauroux, sailing in Marseille and surfing in the distant French territory of Tahiti.
The Stade de France, the country’s largest stadium, will transform into the Olympic Stadium after three decades of staging France’s biggest sports events.
The beach volleyball will take place against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower, with a temporary stadium built in the Champ de Mars park.
Swimming events will take place in the Seine in central Paris. Over a billion pounds has been spent to clean it up, with both marathon swimming and the triathlon scheduled to use it for competition.
On July 17, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip in the river to try to prove that it was safe for athletes.
The athletes, meanwhile, will be housed in the newly-built Olympic Village, which will accommodate 14,250 athletes, and be spread across three towns.
After the Games, the Village will become a neighbourhood with more than 2,000 new homes.
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How many sports and events are there at the Paris Olympics?
The Paris Olympic Games will feature 34 sports and 47 disciplines in total.
There will be four new additions – breaking, skateboarding, surfing and sports climbing.
In total there will be 329 events – and therefore 329 gold medals to battle it out for – across 19 days of competition.
Team GB are taking 327 athletes to Paris across 24 different sports.
The flagship 100m finals will take place across the weekend of August 3-4.
The women’s 100m final will be held at 8.20pm UK time on Saturday, August 3 and the men’s 100m final will take place at 8.50pm UK time on Sunday, August 4.
Full sports schedule:
- Archery: July 25 to August 4
- Artistic gymnastics: July 27 to August 5
- Artistic swimming: August 5 to 10
- Athletics: from August 1 to 11
- Badminton: July 27 to August 5
- Basketball 3×3: July 30 to August 5
- Basketball: July 27 to August 11
- Beach volleyball: July 27 to August 10
- BMX freestyle: July 30-31
- BMX race: August 1st to 2nd
- Boxing: July 27 to August 10
- Breaking: August 9 to 10
- Canoe slalom: July 27 to August 5
- Diving: July 27 to August 10
- Equestrian Sports: July 27 to August 6
- Fencing: July 27 to August 4
- Field hockey: July 27 to August 9
- Golf: August 1 to 10
- Handball: July 25 to August 11
- Judo: July 27 to August 3
- Marathon swimming: August 8-9
- Modern Pentathlon: August 8 to 11
- Mountain biking: July 28 to 29
- Rhythmic gymnastics: August 8 to 10
- Road cycling: July 27 to August 4
- Rowing: July 27 to August 3
- Rugby: July 24-30
- Sailing: July 28 to August 8
- Shooting: July 27 to August 5
- Skateboarding: July 27 to August 7
- Soccer: July 24 to August 10
- Sport climbing: August 5 to 10
- Sprint canoeing: August 6 to 10
- Surfing: July 27 to 30
- Swimming: July 27 to August 4
- Table tennis: July 27 to August 10
- Taekwondo: August 7-10
- Tennis: July 27 to August 4
- Track cycling: August 5-11
- Trampoline: August 2
- Triathlon: July 30 to August 5
- Volleyball: July 27 to August 11
- Waterpolo: July 27 to August 11
- Weightlifting: August 7 to 11
- Wheelchair fencing: September 3 to 7
- Wrestling: August 5-11
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