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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 ...
Third week of August. The Kadayawan Festival is an annual festival in the city of Davao in the Philippines. The festival is a celebration of life, a thanksgiving for the gifts of nature, the wealth of culture, the bounties of harvest and serenity of living. The festival was previously known as Apo Duwaling Festival, named after three icons of ...
v. t. e. Sailing competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics were held from July 28th to August 8th at Marseille Marina. [1][2] The number of sailors competing across ten different events at these Games has been reduced from 350 to 330, with an equal distribution between men and women. Furthermore, several significant changes are instituted in the ...
Nacra 17. mixed. v. t. e. This article details the qualifying phase for sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics. 312 quota places for the Games are entitled to the sailors coming from their respective NOCs, based on the results at designated regattas supervised by World Sailing. Host nation France reserves a single boat in each of the ten sailing ...
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.
t. e. The Mixed 470 was a sailing event part of the Sailing at the 2024 Summer Olympics program in Marseille and took place between 2–7 August 2024. The event was the first for the Mixed 470 class for double-handed dinghies in the Olympics, replacing the separate men's and women's classes that had previously existed. [1]
POCOG. v. t. e. This is a chronological summary of the major events of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and other venues in Metropolitan France, plus one subsite in Tahiti in the overseas country of French Polynesia. Competition began on 24 July with the first matches in the group stages of football and rugby sevens events.
13 July. Grenade explosions, shootout. 3 (+5) 21. Mogadishu, Somalia. 2024 Mogadishu prison attack. Al-Shabaab militants attacked soldiers and attempted to break out of jail by using grenades and firearms. Three soldiers and five militants were killed.