Paris 2024 - Day two schedule and events (2024)

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329 medal events. 32 sports. Endless drama. Catch all the action at the Paris Olympics.

Simone Biles and Team USA win gold in women's gymnastics team final at 2024 Olympics. Days after an injury scare, Simone Biles and her U.S. women's artistic gymnastics teammates took home the gold in the team finals.

Olympics 2024 Live Updates Day 5: Indian shooter Manu Bhaker has made a remarkable impact at the ongoing Paris Olympics. On July 28, she clinched a bronze in the women's 10m air pistol event, becoming the first Indian woman shooter to win an Olympic medal.

Throughout the entire day of Friday, July 26, many Paris métro stations will be inaccessible, while the city's last open bridges will gradually close. On Friday, July 26, all eyes will be on Paris' Seine river, where the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will take place.

After years of planning, the 2024 Summer Olympics start in Paris (and other parts of France) this month. It's a massive event, with around 15 million visitors (including about 90% from other parts of France) expected in Paris for the games, which means that trains and RERs into and out of the city will be packed.

Simone Biles is unsure whether the 2024 Paris Olympics will be her last and is not ruling out an attempt to represent the United States for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. In a May 2024 interview with the AP, Biles indicated that she isn't saying “yes or no” when it comes to her future with the sport.

Reporter Steve Kornacki breaks down Simone Biles' triple twisting double back on floor. In qualifying on Sunday, the 27-year-old became the first women's gymnast to land a Yurchenko double pike vault at the Olympics, taking hold of the high score in the event with a 15.800.

Who are the commentators for Olympic gymnastics? Outside of America, Biles also became the oldest woman to take home an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics in 60 years, when 27-year-old Polina Astakhova won two gold medals for the Soviet Union during the 1964 Summer Games in Tokyo.

The object weighs 529 grams, but only six grams are gold — around 1.3% of the total medal's total weight — while the rest is pure silver. The gold part consists only of a plate laid over the silver core.

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On September 13, 2017, Los Angeles was formally awarded the 2028 Games following a unanimous vote by the IOC.

From July 26 until the Olympic closing ceremony on Aug. 11, athletes will compete in 32 different categories of sports ranging from archery to table tennis.

It was announced in 2016 that baseball and softball would both return to Olympic sport status for the 2020 Tokyo Games (which were held in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic). The two sports were then dropped from the 2024 Games in Paris but reinstated for the 2028 Los Angeles Games.

The official theme song of the 2024 Paris Olympics is "Parade," composed by Victor Le Manse and recorded with the Orchestre National de France. What is the motto of the 2024 Summer Olympics? The motto of the 2024 Paris Olympics is "Games Wide Open" (French: Ouvrons grand les Jeux).

Breakdancing, officially called breaking, will be the only new sport to debut during the Paris Olympics. Several sports that were featured for the first time during the Tokyo Games will also return.