Google Doodle Today: Celebrating the Skateboarding Events at the Paris 2024 Olympics; Here’s Everything You Need to Know

Google Doodle Today: The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris officially began yesterday. Today, July 27, Google is celebrating the skateboarding events scheduled to take place at the Place de La Concorde. Google is celebrating the event with an animated doodle of a group of chickens skateboarding on the roof of a house.

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Today’s Google Doodle highlights the men’s skateboarding competitions. There are two rounds: the men’s street preliminary rounds are scheduled for the afternoon, with the finals in the evening. Skateboarding is one of four new sports, along with breaking, surfing and sport climbing, added to the 28 traditional Olympic sports.

Athletes from more than 200 countries were due to gather in the French capital to compete in 329 events across 32 sports disciplines for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Games began on July 26 and are scheduled to end on August 11. The year 2024 will mark the 33rd edition of the quadrennial spectacle.

Indians to compete in 2024 Paris Summer Olympics

Shooting: Prithviraj Tondaiman, Sandeep Singh, Swapnil Kusale, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, Elavenil Valarivan, Sift Kaur Samra, Rajeshwari Kumari, Sarabjot Singh, Arjun Babuta, Ramita Jindal, Manu Bhaker, Anish Bhanwala, Anjum Moudgil, Arjun Cheema, Esha Singh, Rhythm Sangwan, Vijayveer Sidhu, Raiza Dhillon, Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Shreyasi Singh, Maheshwari Chauhan

Athletics: Akshdeep Singh, Priyanka Goswami, Vikas Singh, Paramjeet Bisht, Avinash Sable, Neeraj Chopra, Parul Chaudhary, Ram Baboo, Priyanka Goswami/Suraj Panwar, Muhammed Anas/ Muhammed Ajmal/ Amoj Jacob/Santhosh Tamilarasan/Rajesh Ramesh, Jyothika Sri Dandi / Subha Venkatesan/ Vithya Ramraj/Poovamma MR, Kiran Pahal, Jyothi Yarraji, Sarvesh Kushare, Annu Rani, Tajinderpal Singh Toor, Abdulla Aboobacker, Praveel Chithravel, Jeswin Aldrin, Ankita Dhyani

Wrestling: Antim Panghal, Nikhat Zareen, Preeti Pawar, Lovlina Borgohain, Kishore Jena, Vinesh Phogat, Anshu Malik, Reetika Hooda, Nisha Dahiya, Aman Sehrawat

Boxing: Nishant Dev, Amit Panghal, Jaismine Lamboria,

Archery: Dhiraj Bomadevara, Bhajan Kaur, Tarundeep Rai, Pravin Jadhav, Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat

Sailing: Vishnu Saravanan, Nethra Kumanan

Horse riding: Anush Agarwalla

Table tennis: Sharath Kamal, Harmeet Desai, Manav Thakkar, Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula, Archana Kamath

Tennis: Rohan Bopanna/N Sriram Balaji

Rowing: Balraj Panwar

Badminton: PV Sindhu, HS Prannoy, Lakshya Sen, Satwiksairaj Rankireddy/Chirag Shetty, Ashwini Ponnappa/Tanisha Crasto,

Golf: Shubhankar Sharma, Gaganjeet Bhullar, Aditi Ashok, Diksha Dagar

Weightlifting: Mirabai Chanu

Judo: Tulika Maan

Swimming: Srihari Nataraj, Dhinidhi Desinghu