When Do the Olympics End? Your Ultimate Guide

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The 2024 Summer Olympics kicked off in Paris, France, on July 24. It will be the third time that the French capital has hosted the Games, the first time in 1900 and the second time in 1924, exactly 100 years ago.

For the first time this year at the Olympic Games in Paris, there will be an equal number of male and female athletes competing, and an equal number of events for everyone.

Here you can view the full day-to-day programme. Telegraph Sports has also published a guide to the British athletes competing in this summer’s Games, plus Team GB’s kit for Paris.

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When do the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris start and end?

The 33rd Summer Olympics will take place from Wednesday 24 July to Sunday 11 August in Paris.

The Paris Olympics will end on August 11 with the traditional closing ceremony. There are also 13 gold medals to be won on the final day.

When was the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics?

The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics took place on Friday, July 26. Celine Dion made a comeback on the live stage on Friday by singing Edith Piaf’s classic The hymn of love to close the ceremony. Several events have already started for the opening ceremony: archery, football, rugby sevens and handball.

How to watch the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

There are a number of ways to watch the Olympics. Warner Bros. Discovery, which owns Eurosport and the Discovery+ streaming service, has the media rights in Europe, although the BBC will still be covering the big moments on its channels. You can stream the Olympics online on Discovery+, the only place to watch every moment live, the BBC iPlayer app and on the BBC website. Alternatively Telegraph Sports will maintain live blogs on all major sporting events.

Team GB athletes

Team GB have announced a 327-strong travelling group of athletes for Paris 2024, the ninth-largest team for the Games. For the second consecutive Olympic Games, women (174) will outnumber men (153) in the British team.

The full list of selected Team GB athletes can be found here.

Predicted medal table for the 2024 Paris Olympics

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The United States is expected to top the Olympic medal table again, with Great Britain aiming for a record number of podium finishes

Read more about Team GB’s predicted medal performance in Paris.

Can Russia participate in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris?

Russian (and Belarusian) athletes cannot compete under their national flag or for their national Olympic committee. Instead, athletes from the two countries must compete as individual neutral athletes, and only on condition that they meet the eligibility criteria set by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).

What are the Team GB Paris kits?

Team GB have played it safe with their Adidas kits for Paris. Following a backlash over the alternative ‘Union Jack’ merchandise, British athletes will adopt a much more conservative tone at the Games, sticking to the traditional colours of red, white and blue. Read more here.

Flame of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games

The torch for the 2024 Paris Olympics was lit in ancient Olympia, in a traditional ceremony to mark the final stage of the countdown to the Summer Games.

The flame was officially handed over to the Paris Games organizers at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, site of the first modern Games in 1896, on April 26 after an 11-day relay across Greece. The next day, the flame left for France aboard a three-masted ship, the ‘Belem’.

The French torch relay lasts 68 days and ends in Paris with the lighting of the Olympic flame on July 26, marking the start of the Olympic Games.

How many sports are there at the 2024 Paris Olympics?

There will be 32 different sports contested at the Paris Olympics. This includes 28 mandatory ‘core’ sports plus up to six optional sports, determined by the hosts.

Paris opted for breakdancing (breaking), which is making its Olympic debut, along with skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing. The latter three made their debuts at Tokyo 2020.

More than 10,000 athletes from 206 countries are expected to participate in 329 events across 45 sport disciplines.

Full list of 2024 Paris Olympic Games Locations

Paris region

Bercy Arena – Artistic gymnastics and trampoline, basketball
Champ de Mars – Judo, wrestling
Eiffel Tower Stadium – Beach volleyball
Great Palace – Fencing, taekwondo
Town Hall – Athletics (marathon)
Disabled – Archery, athletics, road cycling
The Concorde – 3×3 basketball, break, BMX freestyle, skateboarding
Parc des Princes – Football
Bridge Alexander III – Cycling, marathon swimming, triathlon
Arena of the Porte de la Chapelle – Badminton, rhythmic gymnastics
Roland Garros Stadium – Boxing, tennis
South Paris Arena – Handball, table tennis, volleyball, weightlifting
Trocadero – Athletics, cycling

Area Ile-de-France

Swimming center – Artistic swimming, diving, water polo
Palace of Versailles – Equestrian sport, modern pentathlon
Elancourt Hill – Mountain biking
Sports climbing location Le Bourget – Shooting, sport climbing
Golf National – Golf
North Paris Arena – Boxing, modern pentathlon
Paris La Defense Arena – Swimming, water polo
BMX stadium Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines – BMX racing
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines Velodrome – Track cycling
Stadium of France – Opening and closing ceremonies, rugby and athletics
The nautical stadium of Vaires-sur-Marne – Athletics, rugby sevens
Yves du Manoir – Ice hockey

Throughout France

Bordeaux Stadium – Football
Chateauroux Shooting Range – To shoot
Geoffroy-Guicard Stadium, Saint-Etienne – Football
La Beaujoire Stadium – Football
Lyon Stadium – Football
Marseille Marina – Sailing
Marseille Stadium – Football
Nice stadium – Football
Pierre Mauroy Stadium – Basketball, handball
Theehupo’o, Tahiti – Surfing

Olympic tickets: How to get them and how much they cost

A total of 10 million tickets were made available for the Games. British supporters are probably the largest fan base outside their home country.

“Team GB are clearly coming with great expectations,” said Etienne Thobois, CEO of Paris 2024 organisers. “We are more than happy to see the British people coming to support the world’s athletes. We look forward to welcoming you to Paris. It’s so close – less than three hours away (by Eurostar) and London 2012 is still in everyone’s memory. It was an inspiring Games for us too. Britain is by far the first market outside France.”

Five days before the opening ceremony in Paris, there are still some 600,000 tickets unsold, including for the 100-meter final and Josh Kerr’s attempt to win gold in the 1,500 meters.

There are still 4,000 places available for Friday’s opening ceremony, although only the most expensive categories, between £758 and £2,300, are still available.

Organizers confirmed at a press conference in Paris that there are still places available for more than 20 sports, partly thanks to late ticket sales and contingency plans.

Tickets for the most popular Olympic events, including swimming and gymnastics, are sold out and only available through special ‘hospitality packages’.

Visit the official website for ticket information.

What are the 2024 medals made of? The Eiffel Tower connection explained

Some will tell you that the Olympics began on Wednesday when rugby sevens and football took place. Others might think it was when the flame went from the torch to the cauldron. Most of us understand that the moment it all becomes real is when you see a medal for the first time.

Chinese duo Huang Yuting and Sheng Lihao were the first recipients of gold at the Paris Games, although their awards were presented in Chateauroux, the venue for shooting and their 10-meter air rifle mixed team event. Each of the awards presented at this Olympics, including silver and bronze, includes a piece of the Eiffel Tower.

The engineers involved can rest easy, as these pieces of wrought iron were removed and saved during renovations to the tower in the last century. Each now forms an 18-gram hexagon at the centre of each medal, set into the metal to denote winners, second or third places. This was chosen because “L’hexagone” is the self-explanatory nickname for France, given its roughly hexagonal shape.

The back features the goddess of victory, Nike, depicted in the traditional form of a winged goddess, in place of the sportswear brand’s logo.

The Paris Mint produced the medals, just over 5,000 in total, of which 2,600 were for the Olympics and 2,400 for the Paralympics. It did not give a monetary value, but estimates suggest the raw material for a gold medal would be around £620. It weighs around 530 grams and was designed by luxury brand Chaumet, which generously provides a dark blue box for medal winners to store their new pride and joy.

They may have seemed conspicuously large at first glance on Saturday, but in fact the sizing has been standardized since 2012, with every Summer Games medal having a width of 85mm since then. Inflation has crept into the game, with medals increasing in width since the Stockholm (1912) and London (1908) Games in the early 20th century, when they were just 33mm in diameter. By the 1960s, medals had nearly doubled in size, before jumping again from 1992 onwards to around 70mm before reaching their current size.

Be on the lookout for the inevitable endgame, where the winning athletes wear medals the size of Public Enemy’s Flavor Flav bell.

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