32 Games, 329 Gold: Paris Olympics From Today. India To Participate in 16 Games

• By Thetripurapost Desk, Paris
• Jul 26, 2024
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The great sports event Olympic Games is going to start from today ie July 26. This time the games, which are held once in 4 years, will be held in Paris, the capital of France. Where more than 3,800 hours of live sports are to be held. The opening ceremony will be held at 11 pm tonight, with this the official start of the Olympics will take place.

329 gold medals in 32 sports are at stake in the Paris Olympics. 10,500 athletes from 206 associations and countries will participate in them. India has fielded a team of 117 players in 16 sports.

The opening ceremony will start at 11 pm tonight from the Seine river in Paris. All countries and athletes will participate in it. Every country will participate in the Parade of Nations. The Olympics will officially begin with the opening ceremony, but the main round of the games will start from tomorrow. The closing ceremony is on August 11, with which the Olympics will officially end.

The opening ceremony is today, but some of the Olympic games have already started two days ago on 24 July. Some games will take a very long time to finish, so they are started before the official date. This time these games include football, rugby, handball and archery. Although these are considered as qualification stage only, the main games will start from 27 July. This has been happening every time in the last few Olympics. The first event of the Paris Olympics took place on 24 July in the form of a football match between Argentina and Morocco.

329 gold medals will be at stake in 32 sports. Out of these, 39 golds will be decided a day before the closing ceremony, i.e. on August 10. The first medal event will be on July 27 in the mixed air rifle team event of shooting. The gold medal match of the women's basketball event will be held on August 11 at 7 pm. With this the Olympic Games will end. After this, the closing ceremony will be held at 11:30 pm.

The breakdance event will debut in the Paris Olympics, it is the only new sport included in this year's games. However, it will not be included in the 2028 Olympics. This sport is a style of dance that started in New York during 1970. Which became a part of the competition after a few years. The women's event will be held on August 9 and the men's event on August 10. 16-16 participants will take part in both categories.

The format of sport climbing has been changed and the number of medals in it has been increased. Kayak cross event has been added in canoe slalom, which has been included in the Olympics for the first time. 2 new events have also been added in sailing sport. Men's event in artistic swimming has been included for the first time in Olympic history.

Baseball and karate are not included in the Paris Olympics. Both were included in the Tokyo Olympics.

India has fielded a team of 117 athletes in the Paris Olympics, who will participate in 16 different sports. India won 7 medals including one gold in the Tokyo Olympics. According to experts, this time India can win more than 10 medals. Badminton star PV Sindhu and table tennis player Sharath Kamal will be India's flag bearers in the opening ceremony. Both will lead the Indian team carrying the tricolor.

Indian players have started their campaign with archery. On 25th July, Deepika Kumari, Ankita Bhakat and Bhajan Kaur from India participated in Women's Individual Archery. On the 25th itself, Indian archers also participated in Men's Individual Archery. From here, the rest of India's events will be played directly from 27th July.

'Friz' is the official mascot of the Olympics. This name was taken from the historical 'Phrygian hat'. In French history, it is associated with freedom fighters. The motto of the mascot is, 'Alone we run fast, but together we go much further.'

Russia and Belarus have not been allowed to participate in this Olympics because their country is involved in the war with Ukraine, due to which the Olympic Committee banned them. However, athletes from both countries will play the Olympics as neutral athletes. They will be added to the Individual Neutral Athletes team.

According to BBC data experts, America will once again top the medal tally by winning the most gold medals. China is likely to be second and France third. The Netherlands can be fourth by winning 18 gold medals. After them, Great Britain, Australia, Japan and Italy are expected to win 12 to 13 gold medals.

Germany and South Korea could be the other countries in the top-10. Experts' predictions may prove to be wrong, but according to recent records, these could be the top-10 countries in the medal tally. If Russia had been there, then their claim would have definitely been in the top-10.

The events will start between 12 noon and 1 pm as per Indian time. Most of the events will end by 1 am, but some events may take till 4 am to end.