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Paris Olympic Games 2024

  • Laura Kenny

    Big interview
    ‘I want to tell it just as I see it’: Laura Kenny on Olympic glory and personal pain

    Britain’s greatest female Olympian is joining the Guardian. She talks candidly about her career, her miscarriage and why she’s always been prepared to speak out
    • Gabby Thomas poses for a portrait during the Team USA media summit.

      Athletics
      Gabby Thomas on the science of speed and hunting down Flo-Jo’s record

    • Television
      BBC chief: viewers could miss big moments due to pinch points

    • Gymnastics
      Japanese captain Miyata sent home for smoking

    • Tennis
      Nadal wins battle with Navone to boost Paris hopes

    • Australia
      Anna Meares on stepping up to become chef de mission

    • Football
      Zambia coach banned from private contact with players

    • Athletics
      Hughes hits back at rival Lyles over Netflix putdown

    • Paris
      Mayor swims in Seine as river cleaned up just in time

News & features

  • Farida Abaroge sitting on an athletics track.

    Special report
    Behind the scenes with the Refugee Olympic Team

  • Tom Daley

    Diving back in
    Daley returns for one more Olympic adventure

    It has been a long road for the child prodigy turned national treasure who is competing in his fifth Olympics
  • Georgie Brayshaw poses during the Team GB Paris 2024 Olympic Games rowing squad announcement at Kew Gardens in June 2024

    Rowing
    ‘I love proving people wrong’: Georgie Brayshaw on her recovering from a coma

    A horse riding accident left Georgie Brayshaw in a coma at 15. Now 30, she tells Andy Bull about her recovery and her pursuit of Olympic gold
  • Athletics
    ‘The illusion of effortlessness’: why Bol could be sublime star of these Games

  • Rugby sevens
    ‘A lot of pressure’: Tapper and US aim for gold rush

  • Team GB
    Bullish course set for record medal haul in Paris

  • Not just Chariots of Fire
    Remembering the forgotten heroes of 1924 Olympics in Paris

  • Basketball
    The theory of everything: USA’s latest dream team is true nirvana

  • Coaching
    Meet the 52 women breaking down barriers at these Games

  • Gymnastics
    ‘I knew I’d be back’: Biles shines at trials to seal spot

  • Weightlifting
    ‘Our whole country is behind them’: Samoa chasing golden glory

In depth

  • Zhiying Zeng first started playing table tennis as a child before she took the sport up again during the Covid pandemic

    Table tennis
    The Chilean star ready to make her Olympic debut at 58

    Zhiying Zeng thought her Olympic dream was over after she quit China’s table tennis team in 1986. Now, 38 years later, she will compete at Paris 2024
  • The swimmer Béryl Gastaldello stands in the Fountain of Apollo at the Palace of Versailles

    In pictures
    Paris 2024 – the eye-catching history and architecture

    Agence France-Presse have matched up sporting disciplines with historical sites in Paris, resulting in these fascinating and quirky photographs
    • France surfer Vahine Fierro rides a wave during the women's World Surf League event in Teahupo'o in Tahiti

      Surfing
      Olympics brings to light overlooked history of women at Teahupo’o

    • Ukraine's champion high-jumper Yaroslava Mahuchikh, with yellow and blue eyeliner in support of her country

      Ukraine
      Yaroslava Mahuchikh’s dream: ‘We want to show the war is not finished’

    • Paris 2024: Venues, Ile-De-France, France - 11 Jul 2024<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Mickael Chavet/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock (14582028dg)
The Hôtel de Ville (Paris City Hall) and its eponymous square will see the start of the Athletics Marathon of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France
Paris 2024: Venues, Ile-De-France, France - 11 Jul 2024

      View from Paris
      ‘It might actually be cool’: wary Parisians seduced by prospect of Games

    • Sky Brown competes in Olympic qualifying

      Skateboarding
      ‘Don’t age yourself’: meet GB’s unlikely trio aged 15 to 50

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Video

  • The village will host more than 20,000 athletes and delegates throughout the Olympics&nbsp;and Paralympics

    Australian athletes begin to arrive at the Paris Olympic village – video

  • Anne Hidalgo promised to swim in the Seine to show the river was clean enough for open swimming competitions beginning in nine days

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    Paris mayor swims in Seine to show river is clean enough for Olympics – video

  • Keegan Palmer and Arisa Trew claim gold in the park events to bolster Paris medal prospects

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    Aussie skateboarders win gold at Olympic Qualifier Series in Budapest – video

  • Track and field gold medallists will receive prize money at Paris 2024, prompting questions about whether the move adheres with the tradition and spirit of the Games

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    Will prize money corrupt the Olympic spirit?

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