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The Paris 2024 event is the first Olympic clay court event since the Barcelona 1992 event was played at Tennis de la Vall d'Hebron. [4] It will also be the first Olympic tournament to be played at a Grand Slam venue since the London 2012 event was staged at the Wimbledon Championships venue, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club .
Ukraine competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era and the first since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A total of 140 athletes competed amid the Russian invasion, the lowest number in the history of Ukraine's ...
The Summer Games returned to the traditional four-year Olympiad cycle, after the 2020 edition was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Paris 2024 featured the debut of breaking as an Olympic sport, [7] and was the final Olympic Games held during the IOC presidency of Thomas Bach. [8] The 2024 Games were expected to cost €9 billion.
The route, specially designed for the Paris 2024 Games and approved by World Athletics, was unique, demanding, and technical. Paris 2024 unveiled the routes for the Olympic marathon and the two races – a 42.195 km course and a 10 km course – open to the general public as part of the mass event running. [5]
By 2034, eleven cities will have hosted the Olympic Games more than once: Athens ( 1896 and 2004 Summer Olympics ), Paris ( 1900, 1924 and 2024 Summer Olympics ), London ( 1908, 1948 and 2012 Summer Olympics ), St. Moritz ( 1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics ), Lake Placid ( 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics ), Los Angeles ( 1932, 1984 and 2028 Summer ...
Canada competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France from July 26 to August 11, 2024. Since Canada's debut in 1900, Canadian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, except for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the country's support for the United States-led boycott.
2016. 2020. 2024. Other related appearances. Yugoslavia (1920–1992 W) Independent Olympic Participants (1992 S) Serbia and Montenegro (1996–2006) Serbia competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's sixth appearance at the Summer Olympics as an independent nation.
Two Uzbekistani archers qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics men's and women's individual recurve competitions by virtue of their result at the 2023 Asian Continental Qualification Tournament in Bangkok, Thailand; [1] and 2024 Final Qualification Tournament in Antalya, Turkey.