What You Need to Know About the Paris 2024 Olympics

1. Paris Welcomes the World The City of Light is preparing to host the world for the highly anticipated 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Paris will shine even brighter as the world’s greatest athletes converge on the iconic city to showcase their exceptional skills and compete for the ultimate prizes in their respective sports.

2. Unforgettable Experience The 2024 Paris Olympics promises to be an unforgettable experience, blending the city’s rich history, stunning architecture, and cutting-edge infrastructure to create a truly unique and electrifying atmosphere.

3. Start Date The football competition kicks off on Thursday, July 25, 2024, with the main event starting on July 26 and concluding on August 11, 2024.

4. Athlete Participation Approximately 10,000 athletes from over 200 nations will compete in 32 sports, including five new disciplines added to the Olympic program: surfing, skateboarding, sport climbing, and breakdancing.

5. How to Watch For viewers in Nigeria and South Africa, Super Sports will broadcast all the games on their various sports channels. In the UK, the BBC will show Olympics coverage (with a TV licence), and in the US, NBC is set to air at least nine hours of coverage a day.