Find out when the 2024 Paris Olympics will start and how the other teams qualify

The Olympic Games that will be developed in Paris France They will begin on Friday, July 26, 2024 with the opening ceremony, while the closing ceremony is scheduled for Sunday, August 11 of the same year.

In this way, from July 24 to August 9, 2024, the Olympic tournaments for women’s and men’s soccer will be held.

paris 2024 You will witness a new vision of Olympism in action, in a unique spirit of international celebration.

One thing to keep in mind is that the capital of France will host its third Olympic Games, after the 1900 and 1924 editions. In addition, Paris 2024 will coincide with the centenary of the last one, so the celebration will be double.

It is highlighted that there will be 10,500 athletes who will be participating in the 329 sporting events that will take place in Paris.

Format

Total, will compete in the Olympics 28 teams (12 for women and 16 for men), the same number that took place in Tokyo 2020.

How do they qualify in the men’s tournament?

There will be 16 teams in the men’s tournament, with a total of 288 athletes (18 per team).

One of the places will be awarded to the team of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of the host country (France), while the other 15 will be played by National Olympic Committees from around the world, through qualifying tournaments.

The 16 places for the men’s football competition of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be distributed through qualifying tournaments as follows:

Africa: 3.5 quota places (a 4th place can be obtained through a playoff match against an Asian Continent).

North, Central America and the Caribbean: 2 places in this case go to the Dominican Republic and the United States.

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South America: 2 quota places.

Asia: 3.5 quota places (a 4th place can be obtained through a playoff match against an African continent)

Europe: 3 quota places.

Oceania: 1 quota place

Host country (France): 1 quota place.

The matches will be played at six venues:

Paris (Parc des Princes stadium)

Nantes

lyons

Saint-Etienne

Marseilles

Nice

Bordeaux

What sports will participate in Paris 2024?

Athletics

Badminton

Basketball,

Handball

Baseball (softball)

Boxing

Break dance

Cycling (BMX, mountain biking, track biking, road biking)

Swimming: synchronized swimming, diving, water polo, horse riding (evening, dressage, show jumping),

Climbing,

Fencing

Football

Others: Gymnastics (artistic, acrobatic and rhythmic), golf, weightlifting, hockey, judo, karate, wrestling (Greco-Roman and freestyle), canoeing (slalom, flatwater), modern pentathlon, rowing, rugby, skateboarding, surfing, taekwondo, tennis , table tennis, archery, Olympic shooting, triathlon, sailing, volleyball (court and beach).