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The best athletes in the world are ready to represent their countries and battle it out for gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The Olympic Games are being held in the French capital for the first time in 100 years and we are set for another thrilling event.
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At the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, Team GB claimed a brilliant 64 medals in total and finished fourth in the overall leaderboard.
Tom Daley and Adam Peaty were among the gold medal winners for Britain and will be back at it again.
For those who do win gold, they will now receive prize money after World Athletics announced a major change to the event.
A prize pot of $2.4million (£1.9m) has been made available, with gold medallists receiving $50,000 (£39,400).
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The games are finally here so get to know everything about the Paris Olympics...
When is the Paris Olympics starting?
The opening ceremony takes place on Friday, July 26.
But the action will actually start on the Wednesday before, with football, rugby sevens, handball and archery kicking things off.
The opening ceremony will then be held 48 hours later, and will get going on Friday evening at 7.30pm local time. With France an hour ahead of the United Kingdom, that is 6.30pm UK time.
For the first time in history, the opening ceremony of an Olympic Games will not take place in a stadium.
It will be staged along the Seine, with thousands of athletes parading in boats along the river that flows through Paris, in front of hundreds of thousands of spectators.
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There will be boats for each national delegation, which will be equipped with cameras to allow viewers watching on TV and online to get a close-up view of all the action.
The athletes will pass major landmarks such as the Louvre, Notre-Dame and Place de la Concorde on a 6km route, before ending in front of the Trocadero, where the final elements of the ceremony and the celebratory shows will take place.
The games will be known as Paris 2024 and the Olympics and Paralympics will share the slogan ‘Games Wide Open’.
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How can I listen to live commentary of the Paris Olympics?
talkSPORT have secured the rights to cover the Olympic Games.
This is the first time the rights to broadcast the event have been available on commercial radio.
A number of talkSPORT’s multi-award-winning presenters and pundits will provide fans with unlimited coverage and content from Paris.
talkSPORT.com will also keep you up to date with all the latest news with a live blog.
To tune in to talkSPORT or talkSPORT 2 through the website, click HERE for the live stream.
You can also listen via the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM.
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How can I watch the Paris Olympics on TV?
The entirety of the 2024 Paris Olympics will be broadcast live on the BBC and Eurosport.
Events will be shown across all of the BBC’s channels in the UK, with BBC One and BBC Two broadcasting over 250 hours of live coverage across the entire 16-day event
This can be viewed for free on TV as well as live streamed through the BBC Website or BBC iPlayer via tablet or mobile devices.
Discovery+ will have 3,800 hours of live coverage of the Olympics through Eurosport, with fans able to subscribe here.
Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2 will broadcast action across every day of competition, with live coverage from 7am -10.30pm daily.
Both Eurosport 1 and 2 will be available on Discovery+, along with seven event-curated Eurosport ‘pop-up’ channels.
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Which venues are being used at the Paris Olympics?
There are 34 competition venues in total. Nineteen are in Paris itself and another five in the surrounding Ile de France region, with the remainder being football stadia around the country, the National Shooting Centre in Chateauroux, sailing in Marseille and surfing in the distant French territory of Tahiti.
The Stade de France, the country’s largest stadium, will transform into the Olympic Stadium after three decades of staging France’s biggest sports events.
The beach volleyball will take place against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower, with a temporary stadium built in the Champ de Mars park.
Swimming events will take place in the Seine in central Paris. Over a billion pounds has been spent to clean it up, with both marathon swimming and the triathlon scheduled to use it for competition.
On July 17, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip in the river to try to prove that it was safe for athletes.
The athletes, meanwhile, will be housed in the newly-built Olympic Village, which will accommodate 14,250, and be spread across three towns.
After the Games, the Village will become a neighbourhood with more than 2,000 new homes.
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How many sports and events are there at the Paris Olympics?
The Paris Olympic Games will feature 34 sports and 47 disciplines in total.
There will be four new additions - breaking, skateboarding, surfing and sports climbing.
In total there will be 329 events – and therefore 329 gold medals to battle it out for - across 19 days of competition.
Team GB are taking 327 athletes to Paris across 24 different sports.
The flagship 100m finals will take place across the weekend of August 3-4.
The women's 100m final will be held at 8.20pm UK time on Saturday, August 3 and the men's 100m final will take place at 8.50pm UK time on Sunday, August 4.
Full sports schedule:
- Archery: July 25 to August 4
- Artistic gymnastics: July 27 to August 5
- Artistic swimming: August 5 to 10
- Athletics: from August 1 to 11
- Badminton: July 27 to August 5
- Basketball 3x3: July 30 to August 5
- Basketball: July 27 to August 11
- Beach volleyball: July 27 to August 10
- BMX freestyle: July 30-31
- BMX race: August 1st to 2nd
- Boxing: July 27 to August 10
- Breaking: August 9 to 10
- Canoe slalom: July 27 to August 5
- Diving: July 27 to August 10
- Equestrian Sports: July 27 to August 6
- Fencing: July 27 to August 4
- Field hockey: July 27 to August 9
- Golf: August 1 to 10
- Handball: July 25 to August 11
- Judo: July 27 to August 3
- Marathon swimming: August 8-9
- Modern Pentathlon: August 8 to 11
- Mountain biking: July 28 to 29
- Rhythmic gymnastics: August 8 to 10
- Road cycling: July 27 to August 4
- Rowing: July 27 to August 3
- Rugby: July 24-30
- Sailing: July 28 to August 8
- Shooting: July 27 to August 5
- Skateboarding: July 27 to August 7
- Soccer: July 24 to August 10
- Sport climbing: August 5 to 10
- Sprint canoeing: August 6 to 10
- Surfing: July 27 to 30
- Swimming: July 27 to August 4
- Table tennis: July 27 to August 10
- Taekwondo: August 7-10
- Tennis: July 27 to August 4
- Track cycling: August 5-11
- Trampoline: August 2
- Triathlon: July 30 to August 5
- Volleyball: July 27 to August 11
- Waterpolo: July 27 to August 11
- Weightlifting: August 7 to 11
- Wrestling: August 5-11
Who are Team GB's best gold medal hopes at the Olympics?
Adam Gemili, who will be part of talkSPORT's punditry team in Paris, said: “In terms of track and field, I feel like we’ve got very good opportunities to get some, not just medals, but gold medals.
“Katarina Johnson-Thompson in the heptathlon, and Keely Hodgkinson in the 800 metres can definitely win it. She can medal at minimum, but I think she could definitely win it.
“Josh Kerr versus Jake Wightman (in the 1500m), again, two world champions that we’ve got who will go head-to-head.
“More recently this year, Molly Cowdrey in the pole vault. I think she could really put a good series together. I don’t see why she couldn’t come back with a gold medal as well."
Team GB stars to watch
Former Team GB Olympians Sir Steve Redgrave and Adam Gemili have picked out their gold medal hopefuls for the Paris Games.
Sir Steve Redgrave's Olympic medal hopefuls
- Emily Craig and Imogen Grant – Rowing
- Emma Wilson – Windsurfing
- Adam Peaty – Swimming
Adam Gemili's Olympic medal hopefuls
- Katarina Johnson-Thompson – Heptaphlon
- Keely Hodgkinson – 800m
- Josh Kerr or Jake Wightman – 1500m
- Molly Cowdrey – Pole vault
Sir Steve Redgrave will also be part of talkSPORT's coverage, and said of Team GB's hopefuls: “Starting with rowing... The lightweight women’s double, of Emily Craig and Imogen Grant, is where you would put us as firm favourites to win.
“They were fourth place three years ago on a photograph finish. It was quite a dramatic finish to the race but they just missed out by literally a fraction of a second.
“Since then they have dominated the world. I don’t think they’ve been beaten, certainly unbeaten this year as a combination.
“You’ve got the men’s eight, women’s and men’s fours, women’s quadruple skull, men’s pair - they have all got a chance of gold medals.
“So of those 14 golds, 10 of them I think are going to be divided between ourselves and the Netherlands.
“Other sports you’ve got Emma Wilson who was bronze medalist at windsurfing three years ago. She’s at the top of her game, has been for a number of years. Now a highlight of winning bronze three years ago. The event has slightly changed. It’s now a foil windsurf.
“But she’s been around first, second place for the last couple of years and very much looking forward to turning her bronze into gold.
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“It will be really interesting to see how Adam Peaty’s doing. Obviously with well-publicised mental processes of struggling a little bit, but coming back after having a break from sports.
“He’s obviously a multiple gold medalist at the Olympics. We always have big hopes. Having that break, will that interfere? I know he’s been back on form the last couple of times he’s raced.”
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