Olympic Games 2024. The participation of transgender athletes in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games remains in question, less than 500 days before the planetary event. The organization of the opening ceremony is also being refined…
Will transgender athletes be able to participate in the Paris Olympics? The question remains pending 500 days before the opening of the 2024 Olympics. Invited by France Info on Wednesday April 12, the Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castera left the door open to sportswomen “who have experienced male puberty”, the main stumble point.
The rules of the 2024 Olympics will be defined by the international federations in each discipline, notably recalled the one who is also Minister of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (JOP). “There are differences from one discipline to another,” she said. Still, the World Athletics, the international athletics federation, has already banned transgender athletes from its competitions since March 31.
“For many, the evidence that trans women do not retain an advantage over biological women is insufficient,” said Sebastian Coe, president of World Athletics, at the time, the Briton assuring that a step back was still possible. A working group has been tasked with thinking about “inclusion in the female category”, according to scientific criteria.
The opening ceremony of the next Olympic Games, which will take place on the Seine, in the heart of the capital, on Friday July 26, 2024, is also one of the major concerns of the moment. On France Info, Amélie Oudéa-Castera assured that France was “on schedule”, even if the gauge of spectators who could attend was “being refined”. 600,000 places including 500,000 free have been announced. 100,000 places would therefore be paid for, at prices between 90 euros and 2,700 euros. But these gauges could nevertheless be revised downwards given the logistical challenge to be met.
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games promises to be unique: a flotilla of around 150 boats corresponding to each delegation and the participation of nearly 10,000 athletes have been planned. The departure should be given around 8:30 p.m. at the Pont d’Austerlitz, with the departure of the Greek delegation, for the arrival of the French boat, the last of the procession, around midnight, at the Pont d’Iéna, i.e. a course of 6 kilometers on the river. The public will be divided into around twenty fixed zones, with the impossibility of moving along the platforms. 80 giant screens are planned throughout the course, embellished with animations and artistic performances, in particular at the Trocadéro. One of the government’s priorities remains security, which was entrusted on Wednesday April 5, 2023 to Bruno Le Ray, already in charge of security during Euro 2016 in France.
The organizing committee unveiled the first visuals of the opening ceremony at the end of 2021 with a show that promises to be historic on the Seine. If the project is carried out, it will be the very first time that the latter will not take place within the Olympic stadium. Here are the pictures:
The closing ceremony of the 2024 Olympics will take place at the Stade de France at the end of the competitions. For the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games, approximately 65,000 people are expected to depart from the Champs-Elysées and Concorde where the athletes will parade on August 28, 2024.
After a first phase until March 15, the official ticket office of the Olympic Games enters its second phase until May 2023. It is possible to register on the official ticket office website until April 20, 2023, at 6 p.m., to participate in the draw giving access to a slot for the purchase of single tickets. If you are drawn, this slot will be notified to you by email from May 9, 2023. This is a 48-hour window, which guarantees access to unit sales in real time.
There will be a priori 300,000 tickets at 24 euros, and “1.5 million” in total according to Tony Estanguet, the presidency of the organizing committee of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. during the first phase do not need to re-register. They just have to wait again and hope to be selected.
This second stage, that of the sale of single tickets, concerns the 20% of the most requested Olympic sessions. Here is the detail of the prices according to the events.
The organizers have planned a third phase which will take place at the end of the year. A section dedicated to resale will also be created before the start of the Olympic Games in July 2024. Tickets cannot be resold for more than the purchase price.
Asked about France Info in early April 2023, Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castera responded to criticism of ticket prices deemed too high by part of the public. “We’re talking about the biggest sporting event in the world. We don’t ask ourselves these kinds of questions when we go to a Madonna concert. We have a million tickets at €24 and 10% of the tickets over €200,” said she tried to justify. “These are normal prices for an Olympic Games. We are below London prices,” she said. And to conclude: “We have set up a popular ticket office in which the state will offer 400,000 tickets for young people, people with disabilities”.
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be held in the Parisian capital but also in Saint-Denis, Yvelines, Marseille and Tahiti.
This is the official logo of the Paris 2024 Olympics
At each Olympiad, new sports apply to join or rejoin the Olympics program. In 2016, rugby 7 and golf had thus appeared. Before the possible addition of new disciplines, here is the list of the 28 sports on the program of the Summer Olympics:
Athletics 48 events (23 ladies, 23 gentlemen, two mixed)
Rowing 14 events (seven ladies, seven gents)
Basket
Badminton 5 events (two ladies, two gents, one mixed)
Boxing 13 events (six ladies, seven gentlemen)
Canoe / Kayak 16 events (eight ladies, eight gentlemen)
Cycling 22 events (eleven ladies, eleven gentlemen)
Riding 6 mixed events
Fencing 12 events (six ladies, six gents)
Football
Golf
Two events (women and men)
Handball
Weightlifting 10 events (five ladies, five gentlemen)
Field hockey
Judo 15 events (seven ladies, seven gentlemen, one mixed)
Wrestling 18 events (six ladies, twelve gentlemen)
Swimming 49 events (23 ladies, 25 gentlemen, one mixed)
Pentathlon modern
Rugby 7
Taekwondo 8 events (four ladies, four gentlemen)
Tennis 5 events (two ladies, two gentlemen, one mixed)
Table tennis 5 events (two ladies, two gentlemen, one mixed)
Shooting 15 events (six ladies, six gentlemen, three mixed)
Archery 5 events (two ladies, two gentlemen, one mixed)
Triathlon 3 events (one ladies, one gentlemen, one mixed)
Sailing 10 events (three gents, three ladies, four mixed)
Volley-Ball 4 events (two ladies, two gentlemen)
Here is the list of the new events that will be on the program of the 2024 Olympics
The Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (OCJo) indicated in February 2019 that these 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, which were initially to start on August 2, will finally take place from July 26 to August 11, 2024. It is obviously a little early to know the dates of the events, the daily calendar and the TV program for this sports fortnight. These subjects will be studied once the list of sports and the selected venues are official.
