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Paris 2024 Olympics: schedule, new sports, venues, tickets, broadcasting rights, opening ceremony, gender equality

  • With a debut for break dancing, surfing to be held in Tahiti, and a pledge for 50 per cent female athlete participation, Paris promises a lot of ‘firsts’
  • Paris Games president Tony Estanguet vows there will be cheap tickets, free-for-all opening ceremony, and open torch-bearing applications

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The Olympic rings are unveiled in a ceremony at Place du Trocadero next to the Eiffel Tower after Paris wins the 2024 Olympic Games bid in 2017. Photo: EPA
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With official International Olympic Committee (IOC) approval of the 2024 Summer Games competition schedule, athletes and spectators finally have something concrete to count down towards.
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Tokyo 2020’s year-long postponement has condensed the current Olympic cycle – there are just over two years remaining, even less for qualifiers and registration.

Athlete-coach blueprints to peak in Paris are being written up, if they haven’t already, while organisers have nearly firmed up resources, venues and budgets.

From break dancing’s curious debut, to surfing being held in French Polynesia, to its gender equality-driven athlete quota, here’s everything you need to know about Paris 2024.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo (right) with the Olympic flag at the closing ceremony event of the Tokyo Olympic Games at the National Stadium in Japan. Photo: Kyodo
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo (right) with the Olympic flag at the closing ceremony event of the Tokyo Olympic Games at the National Stadium in Japan. Photo: Kyodo

When is it?

The Paris Olympics will be contested across 19 days from July 24, two days before the ceremony, to August 11.

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