Olympic Games 2024: 15 days of events and chances of medals… Some key moments of the Paris Games calendar

It is still officially only provisional, but should resemble the final version in a few details.

He is the calendar of competitions for the Paris 2024 Olympics concocted by the organizing committee (Cojo).

From the start of the football tournament to the closing ceremony and the 100m finals, here are, day by day, the main events and chances of French gold medals to note on your diary for the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Wednesday July 24, 2024:

start of the football tournament

The flame will not yet have officially arrived at the Stade de France but the Olympic football tournament will still open, as always, a few days before the opening ceremony.

From 3 p.m., this Wednesday, July 24, at the Parc des Princes.

With possibly the France team and Kylian Mbappé.

Friday 26 July:

opening ceremony

On the Seine, it risks being sumptuous.

The opening ceremony, scheduled for Friday 26, will mark the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Saturday July 27:

rugby, men's final - swimming, men's 4 x 100 m relay

From the first day, the first chances of medals for France.

The men's 4 x 100 relay in swimming is traditionally the highlight of the first day of the Games.

We will also follow the men's sevens rugby final.

Sunday July 28:

fencing, men's epee and women's foil - mountain biking, women - women's skate street - swimming, men's 400m medley

The day of glory and a double for the fencer Romain Cannone?

Olympic champion in Tokyo and very recent world champion, he will be one of the big favorites in Paris.

Just like his fellow foil Ysaora Thibus.

On the mountain bike side, Loana Lecomte and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot will dream of gold.

At the Olympic swimming pool, the first chance of a medal for the new star of French swimming, Léon Marchand, in the 400m medley.

Monday July 29:

fencing, women's saber and men's foil

Olympic vice-champions, the French sabers will aim big individually, as will the foil fencers led by world champion Enzo Lefort.

Tuesday, July 30:

judo, - 63 kg women - rugby, women's final - surfing, men and women

Double Olympic champion in Tokyo, individually and as a team, judokate Clarisse Agbégnénou will attempt the pass of three.

In Tahiti, the surfing events promise a magnificent spectacle.

Clarisse Agbégnénou, here at the end of her victorious Olympic final against the Slovenian Trstenjak in Tokyo, will aim to become one of the greatest judokas of all time in Paris.

Reuters/Sergio Perez

Wednesday 31 July:

swimming, men's 200m butterfly and men's 100m freestyle

New medal chance for Léon Marchand in the 200m butterfly.

The same day, explanation on the queen distance, the 100 m freestyle.

Thursday 1 August:

fencing, women's team foil - gymnastics, all-around team competition

This time, it is by teams that Thibus and the French foil fencers will aim for gold.

In gymnastics, spectacle guaranteed with the all-around team competition.

Friday August 2:

fencing, men's epee in teams - judo, men's + 100 kg - swimming, men's 200 m medley and men's 50 m

A great day for France?

The huge Teddy Riner will try to win another medal in + 100 kg, while Cannone and friends will be on track for the team event in epee.

Léon Marchand will also be one of the favorites in the 200m medley.

Read alsoAt the heart of Teddy Riner's preparation for the 2024 Olympics: small horses, chambers and "lesson of respect"...

Saturday August 3:

athletics, men's decathlon and women's 100m - judo, team - cycling, men's road race

French athletics will expect a lot from its star, Kevin Mayer, who will start his decathlon.

The same day, Julian Alaphilippe and the French cyclists will dream of winning at home.

Just like the judokas, who won the first team event in Japan and will try to keep their Olympic title.

Sunday August 4:

athletics, men's decathlon and men's 100m - fencing, men's team foil - swimming, men's 4 x 100m medley relay

Big day for the French team.

With Mayer in the decathlon while the 100m will be played between Americans and Jamaicans.

For the last swimming event, small chance of tricolor medal with the 4 medley relay.

And the French foil fencers could offer a final medal to French fencing.

Monday August 5:

athletics, pole vault

Pole vaulting is always spectacular.

And even more with the Swedish world record holder, Armand Duplantis.

Hoping that the French will be celebrating.

Read also“It is possible to break records at any time”: Armand Duplantis, first pole vaulter in history at 6.20 m

Tuesday August 6:

horse riding, team show jumping

In a majestic setting, that of the Palace of Versailles, it promises to be magical!

With ambitious tricolor riders…

Wednesday, August 7:

men's skatepark

You can't miss skateboarding in Paris.

Thursday August 8:

athletics, 110m hurdles final

Since Guy Drut, in 1976, it is a bit of a French specialty.

It's a day that the nugget Sacha Zhoya has already ticked...

Friday August 9:

breaking, women's finals - football, men's final

When we say football, in France, we think of… Kylian Mbappé.

And if he took the Blues to his Parc des Princes for a dream final?

And breaking is celebrating its Olympic baptism.

Kylian Mbappé in the jersey of the Blues in his Parc des Princes for the Olympics?

A dream perhaps not so inaccessible LP / Olivier Arandel

Saturday 10 August:

athletics, men's marathon - basketball, men's final - breaking, men's finals - football, women's final - handball, women's final - volleyball, men's final.

So it's a big day.

With, first, the marathon open to the public.

With, also and above all, co-sports galore.

Men's basketball and volleyball, women's football and handball.

Sunday August 11:

basketball, women's final - handball, men's final - modern pentathlon, women, closing ceremony

Before the closing ceremony, we will resume co-sports (women's basketball and men's handball) and a bit of women's pentathlon...