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Paris 2024France ready to “host the world”: Paris 2024 celebrates 500 days to go with 24-hour around-the-world sports relay, with millions more tickets set to go on sale
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Paris 2024Olympic ticket sale creates big interest among Olympic fans – survey shows majority in France in favour of welcoming athletes with a Russian or Belarusian passport as neutral athletes
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Paris 2024Paris2024 already the largest sale of tickets for a sporting event in France with 3.25m sold in the three weeks of first phase
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Milano Cortina 2026Inaugural OBS World Broadcaster Briefing held for the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026
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Milano Cortina 2026Final opportunity for fans to provide input on Milano Cortina 2026 mascot proposals
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Paris 2024Paris 2024 commissions designer Mathieu Lehanneur to create the Olympic and Paralympic torches and cauldrons
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Paris 2024Paris 2024 reveals look of the upcoming Games and 62 new sports pictograms
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Paris 2024Paris 2024: Olympic Torch Relay in France to begin in Marseille
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Paris 2024Skateboarding World Championships streaming on Olympics.com as stars of Tokyo 2020 bid for Paris 2024 qualification points
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Paris 2024Paris 2024 launches charitable ticketing initiative to ensure open and accessible Games
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Paris 2024Olympic Games Paris 2024 hospitality platform opens for public sales
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Milano Cortina 2026First on-site IOC Coordination Commission meeting outlines priorities during transition period for Milano Cortina 2026
Overview
The modern Olympic Games are the world’s foremost multi-sports event.
They are the largest sporting celebration in terms of the number of sports on the programme, the number of athletes present and the number of people from different nations gathered together at the same time, in the same place, in the spirit of friendly competition.
Organised every four years, they include a summer and a winter edition. Athletes from all 206 National Olympic Committees and the IOC Olympic Refugee Team are eligible to compete in a wide range of sporting disciplines and events, watched by a worldwide audience.
The first edition of the modern Olympic Games was staged in Athens, Greece, in 1896, while the first winter edition was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. Since 1994, the Olympic Games have alternated between a summer and winter edition every two years within the four-year period of each Olympiad.
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The Youth Olympic Games are aimed at bringing together talented young athletes aged from 15 to 18 from around the world. The sports programme is mainly based on that of the Olympic Games. In addition, it includes exciting new sports, disciplines and formats.
Away from the field of play, the education programme uses a variety of fun and interactive activities, workshops and team-building exercises to give the participating athletes the opportunity to learn about the Olympic values, explore other cultures, develop the skills to become true ambassadors of their sport, and improve their training methods and performance.
Gangwon 2024
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The fourth edition of the Winter Youth Olympic Games 2024 will be held in Gangwon province in the cities of Pyeongchang and Gangneung (Republic of Korea), home to the Olympic Winter Games 2018.
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