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The Paris Organising Committee for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games (COJOP2024) (French: Comité d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de Paris 2024) is the organising committee for the 2024 Summer Olympics and the 2024 Summer Paralympics which were held in Paris, France. Tony Estanguet serves as president of the committee.
Olympic and Paralympic Phryges danced and play acted on stage while the 168 delegations of athletes entered the Place de Concorde in French alphabetical order, except for Australia, the United States and France, which brought up the rear in that order as the host nations of the 2032, 2028 and 2024 Summer Paralympics respectively.
France was the host country of the 1992 Winter Paralympics and the 2024 Summer Paralympics. French athletes have won a total of 1,263 medals at the Paralympic Games, of which 416 is gold, placing France fourth on the all-time Paralympic Games medal table. Among its most successful competitors is swimmer Béatrice Hess, winner of 20 gold medals.
France at the 2024 Summer Olympics; IOC code: FRA: NOC: French National Olympic and Sports Committee: Website: www.franceolympique.com (in French) in Paris, France 26 July 2024 () – 11 August 2024 () Competitors: 573 (291 men and 282 women) in 35 sports: Flag bearer (opening) Florent Manaudou & Mélina Robert-Michon: Flag bearer (closing)
Long before the Paralympic Games, American gymnast George Eyser, who had a wooden leg, competed at the 1904 Summer Olympics, and won three gold medals, two silver and a bronze, including a gold in the vault, an event which then included a jump over a long horse without aid of a springboard.
Georgette Gagneux Mary Lines Hilda Hatt Thérèse Brulé Francesca Pianzola. The 1923 Women's Olympiad (Jeux Athlétiques Féminins, [1] Jeux Olympiques Féminins and Monte Carlo Games [2]) was the fourth international event in women's sports, the tournament was held 4 to 7 April 1923 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
On 11 January 2024, with the installation of the Attal government, the ministry changed its name to Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, de la Jeunesse, des Sports et des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques (Ministry of National Education, Youth, Sports and the Olympic
Teresa Perales Fernández [1] (born 29 December 1975) is an S2 classified Spanish swimmer, politician and motivational speaker who has won a total of 28 Paralympic medals at the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024 Summer Paralympics.