The world's best athletes will head to France this summer to represent their country at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Olympic Games are being held in Paris for the first time in exactly 100 years, and the stars will be arriving in Europe in pursuit of gold.
At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Team GB claimed 64 medals in total and finished fourth on the overall leaderboard.
Tom Daley and Adam Peaty were among Britain's gold medal winners who will be hoping they can excel again this time around.
The Games are fast approaching, so here's everything you need to know about the Paris Olympics…
Paris Olympics: dates and times
The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin with the opening ceremony on Friday, July 26 and will end on Sunday, August 11.
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The Games will be hosted by France, with events taking place across the capital, Paris, while others will be held in Lille, Marseille, Bordeaux, Nantes, Nice and Saint-Etienne.
The party starts at 8.24pm, which on the 24 hour clock cleverly refers to 8.24pm.
Official times for the events have not yet been set, but the UK is one hour behind France.
The Games will be known as Paris 2024, and the Olympic and Paralympic Games will carry the slogan “The Games are Wide Open.”
Paris Olympics: talkSPORT coverage
talkSPORT has acquired 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 award-winning presenters and pundits will provide fans with unlimited coverage and content from Paris, with commentators to be announced in the coming months.
talkSPORT.com will also keep you updated with the latest news.
To listen to talkSPORT or talkSPORT 2 via 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.
Paris Olympics: How to follow
The entirety of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be broadcast live on the BBC and Eurosport.
The events will be shown across all BBC channels in the UK.
This can be watched free on TV as well as streamed live via the BBC website or BBC iPlayer via tablets or mobile devices.
TNT Sports and Discovery+ will also provide coverage of the Summer Olympics.
The event will be broadcast live on Eurosport and fans will be able to subscribe here.
Paris Olympics: Bidding Process
Due to the withdrawals, only Paris and Los Angeles were competing to host the 2024 Olympics.
At the 131st IOC session in 2017, Paris was chosen to host the Summer Games after a concurrent agreement was granted.
Paris won the right to organize the games in 2024, while Los Angeles will host in 2028.
This will be the third time the French capital has hosted the Olympic Games, meaning it becomes the second city to do so after London.
Paris Olympics: Stadiums
Paris is divided into four zones filled with hosting venues.
Greater Paris area
- Stade de France – opening and closing ceremonies, rugby and athletics
- Stade Olympique Columbus Yves du Manoir – Hockey
- Arena 92 – Swimming and water polo
- Place de la Chapelle – badminton and gymnastics
- Saint-Denis – water polo, diving, artistic swimming
- Le Bourget – shooting and sport climbing
Paris center area
- Parc des Princes – Football
- Roland Garros Stadium – Boxing and Tennis
- Paris Porte de Versailles Exhibition – Indoor volleyball, basketball, table tennis and weightlifting
- Paris Bercy Arena – artistic gymnastics, trampoline and basketball
- Place de la Concorde – 3×3 basketball, break dancing, BMX freestyle, skating
- Pont Dina – swim marathon, marathon, race walk, road bike race and time trial, triathlon
- Champ de Mars – Beach volleyball
- Grand Palais Ephemere – Judo and Wrestling
- Invalides – Archery
Versailles region
- Château de Versailles – Equestrian and modern pentathlon
- Le Golf National – Golf
- Elancourt Hill – Mountain biking
- Velodrome de Saint-Quentin en Yvelines – track for cycling, BMX, modern pentathlon
outdoor Area
- Pierre Mauroy Stadium – Handball
- National Olympic Stadium in Ile-de-France – canoeing and kayaking
- Velodrome Stadium – Football
- Parc Olympique Lyonnais – Football
- Parc des Princes – Football
- Matmut Atlantic Stadium – Football
- Allianz Riviera – Football
- La Beaujoire Stadium – Football
- Port de la Pointe Rouge – Sailing
- Teahupoo Landing – Surfing
Paris Olympics: Sports
The Paris Olympics will consist of 329 events within the following sports.
Breakdancing was added to the Olympic sports program after the success of surfing, skiing and climbing.
- Shooting
- Athletics
- Badminton
- Basketball
- Beach volleyball
- BMX
- boxing
- broke down
- boat
- Cycling
- Diving
- Riding
- Fence
- soccer
- Golf
- Gymnastics
- handball
- Hockey
- Judo
- Modern pentathlon
- Rowing
- Rugby sevens
- Sailing
- shooting
- Skiing
- Climbing sport
- browse
- swimming
- table tennis
- Taekwondo
- Tennis
- Trampoline
- Triathlon
- volleyball
- Water polo
- Weight lifting
- wrestling
Paris Olympics: medal table
The medal table at the Paris Olympics will follow, but here's how the standings looked from the Tokyo Games.
- USA – 39 gold, 41 silver, 33 bronze, 113 overall
- China – 38 gold, 32 silver, 19 bronze, 89 overall
- Japan – 27 gold, 14 silver, 17 bronze, 58 overall
- Great Britain – 22 gold, 20 silver, 22 bronze, 64 overall
- Rock – 20 gold, 28 silver, 23 bronze, 71 overall
- Australia – 17 gold, 7 silver, 22 bronze, 46 overall
- Netherlands – 10 gold, 12 silver, 14 bronze, 36 overall
- France – 10 gold, 12 silver, 11 bronze, 33 overall
- Germany – 10 gold, 11 silver, 16 bronze, 37 overall
- Italy – 10 gold, 10 silver, 20 bronze, 40 in total
Paris Olympics: schedule
- Archery: from July 25 to August 4
- Artistic gymnastics: from July 27 to August 5
- Artistic swimming: from 5 to 10 August
- Athletics: August 1 to 11
- Badminton: from July 27 to August 5
- 3×3 Basketball: From July 30 to August 5
- Basketball: July 27 to August 11
- Beach Volleyball: From July 27 to August 10
- BMX Freestyle Race: July 30-31
- BMX race: August 1-2
- Boxing: from July 27 to August 10
- Break: from 9 to 10 August
- Canoe Slalom: July 27 to August 5
- Diving: from July 27 to August 10
- Equestrian sports: from July 27 to August 6
- Fencing: from July 27 to August 4
- Hockey: from July 27 to August 9
- Golf: August 1-10
- Handball: from July 25 to August 11
- Judo: from July 27 to August 3
- Swim Marathon: August 8-9
- Modern Quintet: August 8-11
- Mountain biking: July 28-29
- Rhythmic gymnastics: August 8-10
- Road cycling: from July 27 to August 4
- Kayaking: from July 27 to August 3
- Rugby: July 24-30
- Sailing: from July 28 to August 8
- Filming: from July 27 to August 5
- Skiing: from July 27 to August 7
- Football: from July 24 to August 10
- Climbing: from 5 to 10 August
- Speed Rowing Race: August 6-10
- Surfing: July 27-30
- Swimming: from July 27 to August 4
- Table tennis: from July 27 to August 10
- Taekwondo: August 7 to 10
- Tennis: from July 27 to August 4
- Cycling track: August 5 to 11
- Trampoline: August 2
- Triathlon: from July 30 to August 5
- Volleyball: from July 27 to August 11
- Water polo: from July 27 to August 11
- Weightlifting: August 7-11
- Wheelchair fencing: September 3-7
- Wrestling: August 5-11
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