Thread: 2024 Paris Olympic Games

• U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Sailing Day 1

Day one of the U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Sailing greeted competitors with 11-13 knots of breeze gusting to 15 with 3-5 foot swell for the 470s and 49ers, and slightly calmer conditions for the iQFOiLs and Men's Kites.

Stu McNay (Providence, RI) and Lara Dallman-Weiss (Shoreview, MN) took the first race win of Trials in the Mixed 470, kicking off what will be a riveting week of racing across five classes in Miami as 61 athletes leave it all out on the field for the chance to represent Team USA at Paris 2024.

• Carter books 2024 Olympic 50m freestyle ticket

Two-time Olympic swimmer Dylan Carter accomplished an ‘A’ standard Olympic qualifying time in the men’s 50 metres freestyle when the Aquatics Sports Association of T&T (ASATT) Invitational Swimming Championships at the National Aquatic Centre in Couva, Trinidad recently.

The 27-year-old, who opted out of the 100m freestyle and 50m butterfly on previously, clocked a time of 21.69 seconds as the lone competitor in the Time Trial final to go under the ‘A’ standard qualification time for the Paris Olympics 2024 of 21.96 seconds.

Earlier this year, Carter became the first T&T athlete to qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, when he splashed to gold in the men’s 100m freestyle event at the 2023 TYR Pro Swim Series in Ft. Lauderdale, in a new national record time of 48.24 seconds, erasing his own previous record, dipping below ‘A’ standard of 48.34.

First USA Shooting Athletes Qualify for Olympic Games Paris 2024

The first USA Shooting athletes, Ivan Roe, Mary Tucker, Sagen Maddalena, Alexis Lagan, and Katelyn Abeln, have qualified for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 after the conclusion of the third air gun trials selection match in Anniston, Alabama, Jan.7.

Ivan Roe, a Manhattan, Montana, native, will be making his Olympic debut in Paris for Men’s Air Rifle. Roe was a member of the 2023 International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) World Championship team and the 2022 Championships of the Americas (CAT) team where he earned a gold medal and an Olympic quota for the U.S. Roe is currently a sergeant in the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit at Fort Moore, Georgia.

“I am super excited,” said Roe. “This is a huge relief off of my shoulders. During the finals, I was just committing to the process. I wasn’t focused on Paris at all. I was just trying to shoot the best shot I could.”

Mary Tucker, a Tokyo 2020 silver Olympic medalist, will be making her second Games appearance in Paris for Women’s Air Rifle. Tucker, a Sarasota, Florida, native, most recently earned three medals at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile. Tucker also brought home a gold medal at the 2023 ISSF World Championship where she helped set a new team record. Tucker has seen success worldwide having earned over 24 medals internationally.

Sagen Maddalena, of Groveland California, is also making her second Olympic Games appearance after competing in Tokyo. Maddalena qualified for the Paris team in Women’s Air Rifle. Maddalena saw a successful 2023 season. At the 2023 Pan American Games she was crowned Women’s Air Rifle champion and earned a total of three medals. She earned two more medals at the 2023 ISSF World Championship.

“This is pretty surreal, the competition was so tough,” said Maddalena. “I can’t believe I made it. I am proud of myself, and I think it’s awesome, but I worked for it. I definitely put in the miles and hours.”

Maddalena is currently a sergeant in the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit and previously shot for the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Alexis “Lexi” Lagan, a Boulder City, Nevada, native, is among the returning Olympians from the Tokyo 2020 Games. Lagan qualified in Women’s Air Pistol for the 2024 Games. She most recently earned a silver medal in the event at the 2023 Pan American Games where she also secured the U.S a quota for Paris. Lagan’s accomplishments don’t stop there. She is a three-time medalist from the 2022 CAT Games and a six-time national champion.

Katelyn Abeln, of Douglasville, Georgia, will be making her Olympic debut this year. Abeln, who currently shoots for The Ohio State University, also qualified in Women’s Air Pistol. Abeln was on the 2023 ISSF World Championship team and the 2022 CAT Games team, where she earned three medals.

“I don’t think it has sunk in yet,” said Abeln when asked how she felt about qualifying for her first Olympic Games. “I am very grateful all of this hard work has finally paid off. This has been the goal for the past four years and even since I started shooting.”

Abeln started shooting competitively when she was 12 years old. Her dad was her coach up until she started to shoot collegiately. Abeln mentioned that she is excited to represent the Red White and Blue on the Olympic stage.

Ireland's Eve McMahon secures quota spot for Paris 2024 sailing regatta

With one race to spare, Eve McMahon secured a quota spot for Ireland sailing in the women’s one person dinghy for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

By virtue of finishing in the top 30 at the ILCA6 World Championships, which concluded on Wednesday (10 January) in Mar del Plata, Argentina, McMahon secured the spot for the Olympic extravaganza hosted in Marseille in less than seven months' time.

"The Olympics has always been a dream of mine since I was a little girl," said a buzzing McMahon prior to the championships. "I put in all the hard work and I train every day for it. So hopefully it all pays off."

Pay off it did with McMahon securing the spot ahead of the final race due to being mathematically unbeatable for Olympic qualification, no matter the final-day result.

• Rhythm Sangwan bags India’s 16th quota place in shooting for Paris 2024 Olympics

Rhythm Sangwan won the Olympic quota with a bronze medal in women’s 25-metre sports pistol in the Asian shooting championship in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday.

It was the 16th Olympic quota for the Paris Games for Indian shooting, already an improvement from the 15 shooters fielded for the Tokyo Olympics. A country can win a maximum of 24 Olympic quota places.

India has won all possible eight quotas in rifle and six in pistol, apart from two in shotgun. Manu Bhaker had won the first quota in sports pistol

• Burnaby wrestler closer to spot at Paris 2024 Olympics

Burnaby wrestler Justina Di Stasio qualifies for 2024 Summer Olympics

Justina Di Stasio will compete on the biggest stage of her career next year under the title of "Olympian."

The Burnaby wrestler is heading to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics with Canada, officially qualifying last weekend at the Team Trials.

The competition in Edmonton, Alta., solidified 12 athletes for the national roster off to France next July and August, including Di Stasio and five other women's wrestlers.

It's the latest of Di Stasio's illustrious résumé that recently included a gold medals at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and the 2018 World Championships, as well as a bronze at the 2023 Pan American Championships.

The 30-year-old Norway House Cree Nation member was the number-one seed in her 76 kg weight class going into the trials, securing a bye to the final bout as a result of her initial ranking.

• Carlos Alcaraz: Olympic gold over Grand Slam title if forced to choose in 2024

If Carlos Alcaraz can win just one title in 2024, the Spanish tennis star would pick the Olympic gold medal.

Alcaraz, who won the U.S. Open and Wimbledon the last two years, said last week that his goals this year are to win another one of the four Grand Slam tournaments, plus an Olympic medal. He added that, if he could only have one of those things, it would be the Olympic gold medal because it would be a dream realized, according to Spanish media.

Alcaraz made the comments at an exhibition last week in his home region of Murcia, where he beat countryman Roberto Bautista Agut in the Carlos Alcaraz Cup.

While some tennis players put the Olympics a level below the four Slams, Alcaraz has repeatedly spoken highly of the Games.

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• CJ Nickolas is first U.S. taekwondo athlete to qualify for Paris Olympics

World silver medalist CJ Nickolas is the first U.S. taekwondo athlete to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Nickolas, 22, qualified early via his world ranking — No. 2 in the 80kg division.

Had another American been in the top 20 in the world, Nickolas would have had to face him for the spot at a trials event this week. But the next highest-ranked American in the division is 21st in the world (Michael Rodriguez).

In May, Nickolas became the first American man to win a world taekwondo championships medal since 2009 with his 80kg silver.

• Team USA fencer Alexander Massialas prepares for 2024 Paris Olympics

This weekend, the road to the Paris Olympics goes through San Jose as nation’s top fencers are in town for a major Olympic qualifying event.

Bay Area native and three-time Olympian Alexander Massialas, 29, was at the San Jose Convention Center not to compete in this weekend's North American Cup, but to receive his Fencing World Cup Gold Medal that he earned last season.

Massialas is currently the world's top men's fencer. Greg Massialas, Alexander's father, who's also his coach and an Olympian himself was at the event with him.

“Winning and being number one in the world over the year is a very special thing. Of course, we're really getting ready for the end line, which is Paris 2024 Olympics,” said Greg Massialas.

• “Let’s Do This USA “: With the Commencement of Olympic Year American Athletes Sets Sights on Glory With Excitement

Team USA has always been the apple of an eye among the spectators. As the Paris Olympics are only a few months apart, Olympians are under immense pressure to prepare. In the electrifying spirit of the Olympic year, the Olympians are igniting a social media storm. In return, the social media circle is also hyping them up.

Along similar lines, the topmost sporting bodies of the USA are regularly showcasing their standout athletes on social media. Apart from bringing the stars into the limelight, it also boosts their morale as they receive widespread support on these platforms. Recently, Team USA took a similar initiative.

Team USA took it to Instagram and posted a couple of photos of Olympians who will be representing Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The photos also featured their thoughts about going into an Olympic year and how they look at it. The caption read, “You know what year it is.”

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• Six months until Paris 2024: Six incredible Olympic venues you may not know

In exactly six months, Friday, 26 July, the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 will take place on the river Seine. As if this venue in the heart of the city wasn’t iconic enough, some sports are hosted in other renowned places. Olympics.com presents them to you.

It will be the beginning of 16 days of competition, celebration, dreams achieved, emotions stretched, and way more, in 35 venues across Paris, Ile-de-France, mainland France, and even overseas.

Eiffel Tower Stadium - Capacity: 12,860

Grand Palais - Capacity: 8,000

Concorde - Capacity: up to 37,000

Palace of Versailles - Capacity: 15,000 to 40,000

Marseille Marina - Capacity: 12,262

Teahupo’o - Capacity: 600

• USA Basketball reveals 41 finalists for 2024 Paris Olympic roster – NBC Los Angeles

Team USA's men's basketball roster for the 2024 Paris Olympics is beginning to take form.
USA Basketball on Tuesday announced a player pool of 41 finalists for the 12-man roster that will head to France this summer.

The pool features several players who have already captured gold for Team USA on the Olympic stage, headlined by LeBron James and Kevin Durant. There are also NBA superstars like Joel Embiid, Stephen Curry and Kawhi Leonard who are seeking their first taste of Olympic glory.

Here's a full look at the 41 finalists:

• Heat center Bam Adebayo
• Cavaliers center Jarrett Allen
• Magic forward Paolo Banchero
• Grizzlies guard Desmond Bane
• Raptors forward Scottie Barnes
• Suns guard Devin Booker
• Nets forward Mikal Bridges
• Celtics guard Jaylen Brown
• Knicks guard Jalen Brunson
• Heat forward Jimmy Butler
• Bulls guard Alex Caruso
• Warriors guard Stephen Curry
• Lakers center Anthony Davis
• Suns forward Kevin Durant
• Timberwolves guard Anthony Edwards
• 76ers center Joel Embiid
• Kings guard De'Aaron Fox
• Clippers forward Paul George
• Nuggets forward Aaron Gordon
• Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton
• Clippers guard James Harden
• Knicks forward Josh Hart
• Heat guard Tyler Herro
• Celtics guard Jrue Holiday
• Thunder center Chet Holmgren
• Pelicans forward Brandon Ingram
• Mavericks guard Kyrie Irving
• Grizzlies forward Jaren Jackson Jr.
• Lakers forward LeBron James
• Nets forward Cam Johnson
• Jazz center Walker Kessler
• Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard
• Bucks guard Damian Lillard
• Cavaliers guard Donovan Mitchell
• Warriors guard Chris Paul
• Bucks forward Bobby Portis
• Lakers guard Austin Reaves
• Heat guard Duncan Robinson
• Celtics forward Jayson Tatum
• Celtics guard Derrick White
• Hawks guard Trae Young

The player pool was selected by managing director Grant Hill and is subject to change, according to USA Basketball. The final roster will be announced at a later date.

• USA Women’s Field Hockey: Meet the United Eagles team members that are headed to Paris 2024

The United States Women’s Field Hockey Team are eyeing Olympic history at Paris 2024 after an impressive run at the FIH Olympic Qualifiers in Ranchi, India.

The team upset World No. 8 India and No. 11 New Zealand and didn’t concede a single goal until the second half of their final match against the eventual champions, Germany.

Co-captains Ashley Hoffman and Amanda Golini are leading the charge as the United Eagles look to redefine U.S. Women’s Hockey in the lead-up to the 2024 Summer Games.

Full of fresh faces, with no players with Olympic experience, read on to get to know the players of the United Eagles.

Meet the United Eagles – in the link above

• The Women’s 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon Will Be the Most Diverse in History

On February 3 in Orlando, Florida, 160 women will toe the line at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials Marathon. It’s the most exclusive field of women’s American marathoning talent ever assembled, down from more than 450 participants in 2020, largely because of the stiffer qualifying mark of 2 : 37 : 00 for the full marathon and 1 : 12 : 00 for the half.

The top three finishers (who have surpassed the 2 : 29 : 30 time since the start of the qualifying period) will earn a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team and run the marathon in the Paris Olympics on August 11.

Despite a marathon qualifying time that’s eight minutes faster than the previous Olympic qualifying cycle, this year’s women’s field contains more runners of color than ever. Roughly 13 percent of the field—approximately 20 athletes—are women of color, according to statistics from USA Track and Field.

We spoke with eight of these women to find out what racing a marathon with the chance to represent their country, and also their communities, means to them.

https://www.womensrunning.com/cultur...se-in-history/

• Tickets for 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony Will Cost $3,000

Good luck getting a seat at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. The only tickets left are almost $3,000.

Sticker shock came for Beyonce, and it's here for the 2024 Paris Olympics, too.

The summer sporting event is seven months away and will run from July 26 to August 11, but most of the seats for the opening ceremony — which often promises to be a spectacle of its own — have been snatched up.

The Olympics website shows that the only tickets left promise a front-and-center view of the Eiffel Tower for €2,700 or about $2,930. For the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the highest-priced opening ceremony tickets cost ¥300,000 or about $2,025.

Tickets for popular Olympic events, including swimming and gymnastics, are also sold out and only available through special "hospitality packages."

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• Men's Olympic Qualification Tournaments for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games set

The last two continental qualification events for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games finished in the last weekend of January, with two teams earning their tickets to competition, as Sweden and Egypt clinched the last two berths, joining hosts France, world champions Denmark, the Pan American Games winners, Argentina, and the Asian Qualification Tournament winners, Japan.

As France and Denmark played the final of the Men’s EHF EURO 2024 and were already qualified for Paris 2024, the direct spot from the European premium competition went to Sweden, which secured the bronze medals, with a 34:31 win over Germany.

At the 2024 CAHB African Men’s Handball Championship, Egypt cruised to a 29:21 win over Algeria in the final, with their six-match winning streak bringing “The Pharaohs” their third consecutive title and a third consecutive Olympic Games berth.

With six teams already qualified, there are six spots open, which will be clinched in March, when the three Olympic Qualification Tournaments take place between 14 and 17 March. 12 teams have qualified for these Olympic Qualification Tournaments in the last year, with the composition of the three tournaments ready to be revealed.

Six spots in the Olympic Qualification Tournaments were reserved for the teams with the best finish at the 2023 IHF Men’s World Championship which did not qualify already for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. With hosts France finishing second, that meant that teams ranked third to eighth secured these spots.

From those sides, Sweden (4th) and Egypt (7th) made it directly to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, via the EHF EURO and the CAHB African Men’s Handball Championship spots, therefore the ninth and tenth-ranked teams from the 2023 IHF Men’s World Championship progressed to the Olympic Qualification Tournaments.

Spain (3rd), Germany (5th), Norway (6th), Hungary (8th), Croatia (9th) and Slovenia (10th) were the six teams sealing their spots in the Olympic Qualification Tournaments via Poland/Sweden 2023, with six other teams joining them.

The 2023 IHF Men’s World Championship was also a seeding competition for the best continents in the world. The first-ranked continent (Europe) and the second-ranked (Africa) received two more places for the tournament. The third (Asia) and fourth (South and Central America)-ranked continents received one place each.

The top two-ranked sides from the EHF EURO 2024, which had not already sealed a spot at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games or the Olympic Qualification Tournaments also progressed to the latter competition, with Portugal, which finished seventh, and Austria, the eighth-placed side, also earning their tickets to the Olympic Qualification Tournaments.

With Egypt sealing their place to the Olympic Games, Algeria (second) and Tunisia (third) also made it to the Olympic Qualification Tournaments, after making it to the podium at the 2024 CAHB Men’s Handball Championship.

The Olympic Qualification Tournaments quota was completed by Brazil, which finished second at the 2023 Pan American Games and Bahrain, which was on the second place in the Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament.

The three Olympic Qualification Tournaments will take place between 14 and 17 March, with the hosts due to be announced over the next days. The top two sides in each tournament, due to be played in a round-robin format, will seal their tickets to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

Ce n'est pas qe le debut

Knife attack wounds 3 at Paris's Gare de Lyon train station, police rules out terrorism

CRS and DGSE assume every digruntled domestic wannabee wil be on the'qui vive'

Terrorist attack during Olympics would be 'very badly perceived by public opinion worldwide' - France 24

While I look forward to a peaceful Olympiad it will be a target

There is no "plan B" for the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games, the French sports minister said on Monday, after a man armed with a knife and hammer killed a German tourist and left two people wounded near the Eiffel Tower on Saturday. "We have no plan B, we have a plan in which there are several sub-plans with a certain number of adjustment variables," Amelie Oudea-Castera told France Inter radio. The 26-year-old suspect, a French national arrested after the attack, had pledged allegiance to Islamic State in a video recorded beforehand, anti-terrorism Prosecutor Jean-Francois Ricard said on Sunday.

The attack occurred on the Quai de Grenelle - a spot also included in the plans for the opening ceremony. Asked if the government was mulling a change to its plan to hold the ceremony on the River Seine, with several hundred thousand spectators expected along its banks amid the security threats, the minister said: "This not something we're working with." "We have the capacity to secure the event", she said, adding that certain details, including the number of additional cultural events surrounding the main spectacle and said the security perimeter would be adjusted closer to the Games.

France has been on high alert since raising its security threshold in October, when a Chechen-origin man with a knife killed a teacher in a school in northern France. For more on the Olympic security concerns following the Paris knife attack, FRANCE 24's Mark Owen is joined by Dr. Jean-Loup Chappelet, Professor of Public Management in the Swiss Graduate School of Public Administration (IDHEAP) at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

• Paris 2024: New ticketing phase begins Thursday 8 February with tickets to all sports available

With less than six months to go until Olympic Games Paris 2024 (26 July-11 August), a new "surprise ticketing phase" starting on 8 February has been announced.

Tickets for every sport will be up for sale, offering the chance to see the Paris 2024 Games live in some of the most iconic venues in Paris.

For example. the sale will include tickets to the equestrian events at the Château de Versailles, fencing in Grand Palais or the tennis competition in the Roland-Garros Stadium.

The new ticketing phase begins on Thursday 8 February, at 10 am CET - the same day the Paris 2024 medals will be revealed.

• 2024 U.S. Olympic marathon trials: Conner Mantz and Fiona O'''Keeffe race to victory in Orlando

Conner Mantz and Fiona O'Keeffe raced to victory at the 2024 U.S. Olympic marathon trials on 3 February in Orlando to secure their spots on this year's Olympic team ahead of the Paris 2024 Games.

In the men's race, Mantz crossed the line in 2 : 09 : 05, directly in front of training partner and close friend Clayton Young, who crossed the line in second place just one second later. Young has also secured a quota for Paris having previously run the Olympic entry standard at the 2022 Chicago Marathon. Leonard Korir ran 2 : 09 : 57 to finish in third.

In her first marathon ever, O'Keeffe took a hugely impressive win in the women's race, breaking the U.S. Trials record with a time of 2 : 22 : 10.

• France downsizes Paris 2024 opening ceremony crowd to around 300,000 spectators

French Interior minister Gerald Darmanin said Wednesday that some 300,000 spectators will be able to attend the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics, about half the size of what was originally planned.

The giant show on the River Seine on July 26 will mark the first time that an opening ceremony is held outside of a usual stadium setting.

It will also involve a massive security operation, with tens of thousands of police officers and soldiers deployed.

The athletes will be paraded through the heart of the French capital on boats on the Seine along a 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) route. Both banks of the river will be lined by spectators, behind multiple security cordons.

• Olympic Swimming Champion Withdraws From Paris 2024 Olympics After Dropping a Special Update

In both the Rio and Tokyo Olympics, Australia’s swimming squad clinched gold in the 4x100m free relay in the women’s category. Madison Wilson turned out to be an important member of the gold-winning Australian relay team. So on that estimate, the fans were expecting to see her along with Cate Campbell for one last time on the same team. However, that wish faced a stumble in the latest Instagram post of Madison.

On February 1, the 29-year-old swimmer announced her pregnancy news on social media. “The 2 becomes 3. What a journey ours has been, we are excited to announce we are expecting our rainbow baby in 2024”, the captivating IG post disclosed.

Last year, the 2x Olympic gold medalist announced her engagement with Australian cricketer Matt Short. Both the swimming and cricket community had filled the occasion with special wishes. Noting that, Madison added “It has been a whirlwind 12 months and we are so excited for what the future holds” in the same post. With the pregnancy news, the chances of her withdrawal from the Paris 2024 Olympics are looking likely.