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The 2024 Olympics begins today with the rugby sevens and football competitions ahead of a unique opening ceremony on Friday night along the River Seine.
In total, 16 days of action will take place after the ceremony, with triumphant athletes on the podium to be handed medals made out of fragments of an iconic Paris landmark: the Eiffel Tower.
Team GB are taking more than 300 athletes to the Games but Charlotte Dujardin, a six-time Olympic medallist, has pulled out of all competition while the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI) investigates a video from four years ago showing her making “an error of judgement” during a coaching session.
“What happened was completely out of character and does not reflect how I train my horses or coach my pupils, however there is no excuse,” she said in a statement. “I am deeply ashamed and should have set a better example in that moment.”
Elsewhere, though, there are huge hopes for GB to improve on their 22-gold haul from three years ago in Tokyo, particularly with a rich talent body in athletics. Follow the latest news and build-up to the Paris 2024 Olympics below.
Coco Gauff joins LeBron James as Team USA flagbearer
After LeBron James was confirmed as one of Team USA’s Paris 2024 flagbearers earlier this week, it’s now been announced that Coco Gauff will join the NBA legend in carrying Old Glory at Friday’s opening ceremony on the Seine.
Coco Gauff picked as Team USA flag bearer for Olympics opening ceremony
Gauff, 20, is the current US Open champion and set to make her debut for the Olympic team
What does AIN mean at the Paris Olympics?
The small number of Russian and Belarusian athletes will compete under a new banner at Paris 2024 with the Olympic committees of both nations banned from the Games.
At the Olympics, they will compete under a tag of “AIN” - both the acronym and IOC country code. A teal flag has been designed to be raised at a medal ceremony if required.
The IOC has also produced an independent anthem, with no lyrics, to be played for any Russian or Belarusian gold medal winners. They will also not be involved in the opening ceremony.
What are the rules on political protests and the punishments at Paris 2024?
The 2024 Olympics get underway this week, with the 33rd Games taking place in Paris between 24 July and 11 August.
And though much of the focus will be on the sporting drama, events throughout the world will inevitably be put into the spotlight during a competition that has a long history of political protest and expression.
The war in Ukraine, continued Israeli strikes in Gaza and France’s recent election are just a few events that may be referenced during the Games. The Olympic website says that ”the International Olympic Committee Athletes’ Commission and the IOC are fully supportive of freedom of expression”, and while that may be true, some previous events dispute that idea.
So, what are the rules around political protest at the Olympics, and what are the potential punishments for breaking them?
The Olympic sports in Paris with no British athletes competing
Record medal hauls may be mooted for Team GB when the Paris Olympics get underway in the French capital, but there are some Games venues at which the Union flag will be conspicuous by its absence.
The tentacles of sustained podium success, spread liberally by almost £250m of UK Sport funding for the Paris Olympic cycle alone, have yet to reach the wrestling mats of the Champ-de Mars-Arena or the glittering fencing venue at the Grand Palais.
Besides team sports like volleyball and handball, in which Britain mustered brief token gestures for London 2012, they are the largely forgotten individual sports or disciplines which offer scant hope of a change in fortunes.
How Roy Keane is inspiring Team GB to end 36 years of Olympic men’s hockey hurt
Among those British medals could be two in hockey, with Team GB’s women now well established contenders and the men turning to an unlikely inspiration as they seek their own podium return.
How Roy Keane is inspiring Team GB to end 36 years of Olympic men’s hockey hurt
Not since the famous gold at Seoul 1988 have Great Britain’s men won an Olympic hockey medal but David Ames and the Paris 2024 vintage are tapping into all resources to end that drought
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The 2024 Olympics begins today with the rugby sevens and football competitions ahead of a unique opening ceremony on Friday night along the River Seine.
In total, 16 days of action will take place after the ceremony, with triumphant athletes on the podium to be handed medals made out of fragments of an iconic Paris landmark: the Eiffel Tower.
Team GB are taking more than 300 athletes to the Games but Charlotte Dujardin, a six-time Olympic medallist, has pulled out of all competition while the International Federation for Equestrian Sports (FEI) investigates a video from four years ago showing her making “an error of judgement” during a coaching session.
“What happened was completely out of character and does not reflect how I train my horses or coach my pupils, however there is no excuse,” she said in a statement. “I am deeply ashamed and should have set a better example in that moment.”
Elsewhere, though, there are huge hopes for GB to improve on their 22-gold haul from three years ago in Tokyo, particularly with a rich talent body in athletics. Follow the latest news and build-up to the Paris 2024 Olympics below.
Coco Gauff joins LeBron James as Team USA flagbearer
After LeBron James was confirmed as one of Team USA’s Paris 2024 flagbearers earlier this week, it’s now been announced that Coco Gauff will join the NBA legend in carrying Old Glory at Friday’s opening ceremony on the Seine.
Coco Gauff picked as Team USA flag bearer for Olympics opening ceremony
Gauff, 20, is the current US Open champion and set to make her debut for the Olympic team
What does AIN mean at the Paris Olympics?
The small number of Russian and Belarusian athletes will compete under a new banner at Paris 2024 with the Olympic committees of both nations banned from the Games.
At the Olympics, they will compete under a tag of “AIN” - both the acronym and IOC country code. A teal flag has been designed to be raised at a medal ceremony if required.
The IOC has also produced an independent anthem, with no lyrics, to be played for any Russian or Belarusian gold medal winners. They will also not be involved in the opening ceremony.
What are the rules on political protests and the punishments at Paris 2024?
The 2024 Olympics get underway this week, with the 33rd Games taking place in Paris between 24 July and 11 August.
And though much of the focus will be on the sporting drama, events throughout the world will inevitably be put into the spotlight during a competition that has a long history of political protest and expression.
The war in Ukraine, continued Israeli strikes in Gaza and France’s recent election are just a few events that may be referenced during the Games. The Olympic website says that ”the International Olympic Committee Athletes’ Commission and the IOC are fully supportive of freedom of expression”, and while that may be true, some previous events dispute that idea.
So, what are the rules around political protest at the Olympics, and what are the potential punishments for breaking them?
The Olympic sports in Paris with no British athletes competing
Record medal hauls may be mooted for Team GB when the Paris Olympics get underway in the French capital, but there are some Games venues at which the Union flag will be conspicuous by its absence.
The tentacles of sustained podium success, spread liberally by almost £250m of UK Sport funding for the Paris Olympic cycle alone, have yet to reach the wrestling mats of the Champ-de Mars-Arena or the glittering fencing venue at the Grand Palais.
Besides team sports like volleyball and handball, in which Britain mustered brief token gestures for London 2012, they are the largely forgotten individual sports or disciplines which offer scant hope of a change in fortunes.
How Roy Keane is inspiring Team GB to end 36 years of Olympic men’s hockey hurt
Among those British medals could be two in hockey, with Team GB’s women now well established contenders and the men turning to an unlikely inspiration as they seek their own podium return.
How Roy Keane is inspiring Team GB to end 36 years of Olympic men’s hockey hurt
Not since the famous gold at Seoul 1988 have Great Britain’s men won an Olympic hockey medal but David Ames and the Paris 2024 vintage are tapping into all resources to end that drought
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