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The Paris 2024 Olympic Games are just six months away.
Here is a guide to everything you need to know about the Games.
When are the Games?
The opening ceremony will be held on Friday, 26 July, but the sporting action actually begins two days before (on July 24) with pool matches in football, rugby sevens, handball and archery.
For the first time in Olympic history, the opening ceremony will be held outside the main stadium; along the banks of the Seine River.
The Stadium will also host the Games athletics events.
The aquatics center is the only venue being specifically built for the Games. Otherwise, all other facilities are already in existence and complete.
The Paris Olympics will be shown the Olympic Channel and depending who gets the broadcast rights, private and national television companies.
The only sport making its debut in Paris is breaking.
The competition will take place as solo battles and the breakers will improvise to the DJ’s tracks, and will include moves such as windmills, the 6-step and freezes.
Karate and baseball have been dropped from the Olympics since Tokyo 2020.
There are 329 medal events across 32 sports.
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