The Summer Olympics are returning to Paris after 100 years. The last time the French capital hosted the international competition was in 1924, when there were 22 sports. This time, there will be 32, including one that’s making its Olympics debut.
Your Guide to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
Also, for the first time in Summer Games’ history, the Olympics Opening Ceremony won’t be held in a stadium. Instead, organizers are planning to parade a flotilla of boats down the Seine that runs through the heart of the city.
Here’s everything you need to know to be ready for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games.
When is the Paris 2024 Olympics?
The Opening Ceremony of what is officially the XXXIII Olympiad is scheduled to begin at 7:30 a.m. ET on July 26—though soccer and rugby sevens events kick off on July 24. The closing ceremony takes place on Aug. 11.
What are the sporting events?
This summer, 10,500 athletes from over 200 national committees as well as a refugee team will compete in 329 events.
The Paris Olympics will include 28 returning sports, following the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics (which took place in 2021 due to COVID-19), as well as four special additions: sport climbing, skateboarding, surfing, and breaking—the last of which is making its Olympics debut. The International Olympic Committee accepted Paris 2024 organizers’ proposal to include these additional sports because they “contribute to making the programme of the Olympic Games more gender balanced, more youthful and more urban.”
Below are the competition dates for each sport. For a detailed schedule, click here.
- Archery: July 25 to August 4
- Artistic gymnastics: July 27 to August 5
- Artistic swimming: August 5 to 10
- Athletics: August 1 to 11
- Badminton: July 27 to August 5
- Basketball: July 27 to August 11
- Basketball 3x3: July 30 to August 5
- Beach volleyball: July 27 to August 10
- Boxing: July 27 to August 10
- Breaking: August 9 to 10
- Canoe slalom: July 27 to August 5
- Canoe sprint: August 6 to 10
- Cycling BMX freestyle: July 30 to 31
- Cycling BMX racing: August 1 to 2
- Cycling mountain bike: July 28 to 29
- Cycling road: July 27 to August 4
- Cycling track: August 5 to 11
- Diving: July 27 to August 10
- Equestrian: July 27 to August 6
- Fencing: July 27 to August 4
- Football (Soccer): July 24 to August 10
- Golf: August 1 to 10
- Handball: July 25 to August 11
- Hockey: July 27 to August 9
- Judo: July 27 to August 3
- Marathon swimming: August 8 to 9
- Modern pentathlon: August 8 to 11
- Rhythmic gymnastics: August 8 to 10
- Rowing: July 27 to August 3
- Rugby sevens: July 24 to 30
- Sailing: July 28 to August 8
- Shooting: July 27 to August 5
- Skateboarding: July 27 to August 7
- Sport climbing: August 5 to 10
- Surfing: July 27 to 31 (pending weather conditions)
- Swimming: July 27 to August 4
- Table tennis: July 27 to August 10
- Taekwondo: August 7 to 10
- Tennis: July 27 to August 4
- Trampoline: August 2
- Triathlon: July 30 to August 5
- Volleyball: July 27 to August 11
- Water polo: July 27 to August 11
- Weightlifting: August 7 to 11
- Wrestling: August 5 to 11
