After the ticketing details (March 24), the organizers of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games (July 26-August 11) revealed the competition schedule this Friday.
Two days before the opening ceremony on July 26, 2024 imagined as a long parade on the Seine, handball (in Lille), rugby (at the Stade de France in Saint-Denis) and football (in Paris, Bordeaux, Lyon , Marseille, Nantes, Nice and Saint-Etienne, for the men's and women's tournaments) will open an Olympic program (a habit) which will last for 21 days.
In a program drawn up after numerous consultations with the International Olympic Committee, the International Federations and the broadcasters will cohabit 32 sports (329 events, for a total of 762 sessions).
From Saturday 27 July, the day after the opening ceremony, eight sports will experience the thrill of the first finals and medals: cycling (with women's and men's time trials), judo, fencing, diving , rugby, shooting, swimming and skateboarding.
The surfing events, on the mythical wave of Teahupo'o in Tahiti, will begin this Saturday, July 27 and will allow the athletes to then reach Paris in order to take part in the closing ceremony, so that all athletes have the opportunity to participate. at least one of the ceremonies.
Evening swimming and athletics finals
Saturday and Sunday August 3 and 4 already shine in the calendar as unmissable events with finals in tennis, table tennis, judo, fencing, athletics, archery, shooting, cycling, golf, horse riding, rowing, artistic gymnastics, badminton and swimming.
The women's and men's team sports finals (field hockey, handball, football, beach volleyball, volleyball, basketball and water polo) will take place over four days, between Thursday 8 and Sunday 11 August.
Place de la Concorde (3x3 basketball, freestyle BMX, breaking, skateboarding) will host events “almost non-stop” (with skateboarding opening, breaking closing).
Next to the iconic sites of the Eiffel Tower (beach volleyball) and the Invalides (archery).
As for the timetable, the organizers indicate that “
the competitions will never start in the morning before 7:30 a.m., and will end no later than 11:30 p.m. during the week, and at midnight on Friday and Saturday evenings.
The swimming and athletics finals will be held in the evening.
Only the preliminary phase of the basketball events remains for the moment accompanied by a question mark, for lack of place after the abandonment of Hall 6 of the Parc des Expositions de Versailles.
The final schedule for the 2024 Olympic Games will be unveiled at the end of the first half of 2022.