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The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
2024 Summer Olympics medal table. Léon Marchand (pictured) won four gold medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics, the most of any competing athlete. China (40) and United States (40) United States (126) World map showing the medal achievements of each country during the 2024 Summer Olympics. Legend: represents countries that won at least one gold ...
e. Numerous world records and Olympic records were set in various events at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Some events, such as rowing, occur under variable weather conditions that can unfairly benefit an athlete's performance through no fault of their own. For these disciplines, there are no official records but rather Olympic best and ...
The Summer Games returned to the traditional four-year Olympiad cycle, after the 2020 edition was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Paris 2024 featured the debut of breaking as an Olympic sport, [7] and was the final Olympic Games held during the IOC presidency of Thomas Bach. [8] The 2024 Games were expected to cost €9 billion.
v. t. e. Breakdancing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics ran from 9 to 10 August at Place de la Concorde, marking the sport's official debut in the program and the first dancesport discipline to appear in Summer Olympic history. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Following its successful debut at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, breaking was ...
76th Primetime Emmy Awards. The 76th Primetime Emmy Awards honored the best in American prime time television programming from June 1, 2023, until May 31, 2024, as chosen by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. [ 2 ] The award ceremony was held live on September 15, 2024, at the Peacock Theater in Downtown Los Angeles, California, and was ...
Andrea Capone, 43, Italian footballer (Cagliari, Vincenza, Treviso). [1] (body discovered on this date) Alton Meiring, 48, South African footballer (Cape Town Spurs, Manning Rangers, national team). [2] (death announced on this date) Stoika Milanova, 79, Bulgarian violinist. [3] (death announced on this date) Mostafizur Rahman, 70, Bangladeshi ...
This national electoral calendar for 2024 lists the national/federal elections held, and scheduled to be held, in 2024 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included. Specific dates are given where these are known.