Two years to go until Paris 2024! 24 things we already know about the Olympic Games Paris 2024

1 - The Olympic Games Paris 2024 will officially be held from 26 July until 11 August 2024, while the Paralympic Games will take place from 28 August until 8 September. Click here for the full calendar of events.

2 - The Olympic competitions for football and rugby at Paris 2024 will begin on 24 July, two days before the Opening Ceremony.

3 - The Olympic Games Paris 2024 take place exactly 100 years since Paris hosted the Olympics back in 1924.

4 - Paris will join London as the only cities to host the Olympics three times. The Games were in Paris in 1900, 1924 and now in 2024, while London hosted the Games in 1908, 1948 and 2012.

5 - On 26 July 2024, the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris will be held almost exactly 100 years after the 1924 Closing Ceremony, which was held on 27 July.

6 - The Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony will not be held in a stadium for the first time ever. Instead it will be done on the Seine, the river that crosses the centre of Paris.

7 - There will be 32 sports played during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and 329 medal events in total.

8 - The sport with the most medals being awarded at Paris 2024 will be aquatics with 49 events across the disciplines of swimming, marathon swimming, diving, water polo, and artistic swimming. Athletics follows closely with 48.

9 - There should be about 10 500 athletes present at the Olympic Games Paris 2024. The final number of competitors will be confirmed following the conclusion of the Olympic Qualifier Series.

10 - There will be one new sport for the Paris 2024 edition of the Olympics: breaking. Competition in the dance sport will comprise two events – one for men and one for women – where 16 B-Boys and 16 B-Girls will go face to face in solo battles.

11 - Approximately 45 000 volunteers will help at the Paris 2024 Games.

12 - There will be a total of 35 Olympic venues at Paris 2024, with fourteen sites hosting 24 Olympic sports located within 10km of the Olympic Village.

13 - Some Olympic events will happen in iconic places of Paris: beach volleyball will be held at the Champ de Mars (under the Eiffel Tower), urban sports will be held at La Concorde, fencing and taekwondo at the Grand Palais, the start of the Marathon at the Hotel de Ville.

14 - The Paris 2024 Games will not only take place in France’s capital, as the football tournament will be played in Bordeaux, Nantes, Lyon, Saint-Etienne, Nice and Marseille, sailing will be in Marseille, while Lille will also have team sports.

15 - For the first time ever, the 2024 Games will also take place in the French territory of Tahiti, where the surfing competition will be held on the Pacific island’s legendary Teahupoo wave, located about 15 000km from Paris.

16 - In canoe, there will be a new event introduced at Paris 2024: Extreme slalom. Four athletes tip off a ramp at the same time and whoever gets to the bottom of the course first is the winner. There will be one event for men and one event for women.

17 - In sailing, there will be a change with 2 new categories at Paris 2024: IQFoil (windsurfing) and formula kite, commonly known as Kite surf.

18 - Three new mixed events will be introduced at Paris 2024: the 35km walking mixed relay of athletics, the Skeet mixed team event in shooting and the mixed Dinghy in Sailing.

19 - The Olympic Games will be back in France for the first time in 32 years when Paris 2024 begins, the first Olympics in the country since the Winter Games 1992 in Albertville.

20 - Sport climbing, which was introduced at Tokyo 2020 in 2021, will change its format. In Japan there was one medal in each gender, which was awarded to the winner of a combined event that saw all athletes compete in speed, bouldering, and lead climbing. At Paris 2024 we will have two different medal events for each gender: a combined event which includes only bouldering and lead, and a separate speed climbing event.

21 - Modern Pentathlon will change its format to last 90 minutes sharp. It will begin with riding, followed by the fencing bonus round and swimming, before closing with the laser run combining shooting and running - with breaks of between five and 15 minutes in between each discipline.

22 - Close to 10 million tickets will go on sale for the Paris 2024 Olympics with around 3.4 million for the Paralympics - all sold via a single website. Click here to know more.

23 - Ticket prices for all Olympic sports at Paris 2024 will start at €24, and the lowest prices for all Paralympic sports will be €15. More details about the tickets here.

24 - Paris 2024 will include an IOC Refugee Olympic Team. The first refugee team took part in the Rio 2016 Games.