Venues

Arena Paris Nord and Villepinte PMC Range

Parc des Princes
Stade Roland Garros

Accor Arena

Champ de Mars

Paris expo Porte de Versailles
Dôme de Paris

Le Bourget Media Village and Urban Sports Park

Concorde

Arc de Triomphe
Place Charles de Gaulle

Grand Palais

Les Invalides

Stade de France
Paris Aquatic Centre

Porte de La Chapelle Arena

Paris La Défense Arena

Stade Yves-du-Manoir

Location of the facilities in the Paris area

Most of the Olympic events were held in the city of Paris and its metropolitan region, including the neighbouring cities of Saint-Denis, Le Bourget, Nanterre, Versailles, and Vaires-sur-Marne.^[29]^[30]

The basketball preliminaries and handball finals were held in Lille, 225 km (140 mi) from the host city, Paris; the sailing and some of the football games were held in the Mediterranean city of Marseille, which is 777 km (483 mi) from Paris; meanwhile, the surfing events were held in Teahupo'o village in the overseas territory of Tahiti, French Polynesia, which is 15,716 km (9,765 mi) from Paris. Football was also hosted in an additional five cities: Bordeaux, Décines-Charpieu (Lyon), Nantes, Nice and Saint-Étienne, some of which are home to Ligue 1 clubs.

Grand Paris zone

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Venue	Events	Capacity	Status	Ref.
Yves du Manoir Stadium	Field hockey	15,000	Renovated	^[31]
Stade de France	Rugby sevens	77,083	Existing	^[32]
	Athletics (track and field)
	Closing ceremony
Paris La Défense Arena	Aquatics (swimming, water polo finals)	15,220		^[33]
Porte de La Chapelle Arena	Badminton	8,000	Built for the Games	^[34]
Porte de La Chapelle Arena	Gymnastics (rhythmic)	8,000		^[34]
Paris Aquatic Centre	Aquatics (water polo preliminaries, diving, artistic swimming)	5,000		^[35]^[36]^[37]
Le Bourget Climbing Venue	Sport climbing	5,000	Temporary	^[38]
Arena Paris Nord	Boxing (preliminaries, quarter-finals)	6,000	Existing	^[39]
Arena Paris Nord	Modern pentathlon (fencing)	6,000	Existing	^[39]

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Paris Centre zone

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Venue	Events	Capacity	Status
Parc des Princes	Football (group stage, quarter-finals and gold medal matches)	48,583	Existing
Stade Roland Garros^[40]	Tennis	36,000 (15,000 + 12,000 + 9,000)
Stade Roland Garros^[40]	Boxing (finals)	36,000 (15,000 + 12,000 + 9,000)
Paris Expo Porte de Versailles	Volleyball	18,000 (12,000 + 12,000)
	Table tennis
	Handball (preliminaries)
	Weightlifting
Bercy Arena	Gymnastics (artistic and trampolining)	15,000
Bercy Arena	Basketball (finals)	15,000
Grand Palais	Fencing	8,000
Grand Palais	Taekwondo	8,000
Place de la Concorde	Basketball (3x3)	30,000 (overall)	Temporary
	Breaking
	Cycling (BMX freestyle)
	Skateboarding
Hôtel de Ville	Athletics (marathon start)	1,500
Pont Alexandre III	Aquatics (marathon swimming)
	Triathlon
	Cycling (time trial finish)
Trocadéro (Pont d'Iéna)	Athletics (race walk)	13,000 (3,000 sitting)
Trocadéro (Pont d'Iéna)	Cycling (road race)	13,000 (3,000 sitting)
Eiffel Tower Stadium (Champ de Mars)	Beach volleyball	12,000
Grand Palais Éphémère	Judo	9,000
Grand Palais Éphémère	Wrestling	9,000
Les Invalides	Archery	8,000
	Athletics (marathon finish)
	Cycling (time trial start)

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Versailles zone

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Venue	Events	Capacity	Status
Gardens of the Palace of Versailles	Equestrian	80,000 (22,000 + 58,000)	Temporary
Gardens of the Palace of Versailles	Modern pentathlon (excluding fencing rounds)	80,000 (22,000 + 58,000)	Temporary
Le Golf National	Golf	35,000	Existing
Élancourt Hill	Cycling (mountain biking)	25,000
Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines	Cycling (track)	5,000
Vélodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines	Cycling (BMX racing)	5,000

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Outlying venues

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Venue	Events	Capacity	Status
Pierre Mauroy Stadium, Lille	Basketball (group stage)	26,000	Existing
Pierre Mauroy Stadium, Lille	Handball (finals)	26,000
National Olympic Nautical Stadium of Île-de-France [fr], Vaires-sur-Marne	Rowing	22,000
	Canoeing (slalom, sprint)	22,000
Stade Vélodrome, Marseille	Football (6 group stage matches, quarter-finals, women's and men's semi-finals)	67,394
Parc Olympique Lyonnais, Lyon	Football (6 group stage matches, quarter-finals, men's and women's semi-finals, women's bronze medal match)	59,186
Stade Matmut Atlantique, Bordeaux	Football (6 group stage matches, quarter-finals)	42,115
Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, Saint-Étienne	Football (6 group stage matches)	41,965
Allianz Riviera, Nice	Football (6 group stage matches)	35,624
Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes	Football (6 group stage matches, quarter-finals, men's bronze medal match)	35,322
Roucas Blanc Olympic Marina [fr], Marseille	Sailing	5,000
Teahupo'o, Tahiti	Surfing	5,000
National Shooting Centre, Châteauroux	Shooting	3,000

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Non-competitive

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Venue	Events	Capacity	Status
Jardins du Trocadéro	Opening ceremony	30,000 / 13,000	Temporary
Jardins du Trocadéro	Champions Park	30,000 / 13,000
The Seine	Opening ceremony	570,000
Olympic Village	Olympic Village	18,000 athletes	Built for the Games
Aranui 5, Tahiti	Surfing Olympic Village	256 athletes	Existing
Parc de l'Aire des Vents, Dugny	Media Village	—	Temporary
Le Bourget Exhibition Centre and Media Village [fr], Le Bourget	International Broadcast Centre	15,000	Existing
Paris Congress Centre	Main Press Centre	—
Polygone de Vincennes [fr]	Road cycling training venue
Tuileries Garden	Olympic cauldron		Temporary

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Medals

Thumb — Medals from the Games, with a piece of the Eiffel Tower

The President of the Paris 2024 Olympic Organizing Committee, Tony Estanguet, unveiled the Olympic and Paralympic medals for the Games in February 2024, which on the obverse featured embedded hexagon-shaped tokens of scrap iron that had been taken from the original construction of the Eiffel Tower, with the logo of the Games engraved into it.^[41] Approximately 5,084 medals would be produced by the French mint Monnaie de Paris, and were designed by Chaumet, a luxury jewellery firm based in Paris.^[42]

The reverse of the medals features Nike, the Greek goddess of victory, inside the Panathenaic Stadium which hosted the first modern Olympics in 1896. Parthenon and the Eiffel Tower can also be seen in the background on both sides of the medal.^[43] Each medal weighs 455–529 g (16–19 oz), has a diameter of 85 mm (3.3 in) and is 9.2 mm (0.36 in) thick.^[44] The gold medals are made with 98.8 percent silver and 1.13 percent gold, while the bronze medals are made up with copper, zinc, and tin.^[45]

Security

France reached an agreement with Europol and the UK Home Office to help strengthen security and "facilitate operational information exchange and international law enforcement cooperation" during the Games.^[46] The agreement included a plan to deploy more drones and sea barriers to prevent small boats from crossing the Channel illegally.^[47] The British Army would also provide support by deploying Starstreak surface-to-air missile units for air security.^[48] To prepare for the Games, the Paris police held inspections and rehearsals in their bomb disposal unit, similar to their preparations for the 2023 Rugby World Cup at the Stade de France.^[49]

As part of a visit to France by Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, several agreements were signed between the two nations to enhance security for the Olympics.^[50] In preparation for the significant security demands and counterterrorism measures, Poland pledged to contribute security troops, including sniffer dog handlers, to support international efforts aimed at ensuring the safety of the Games.^[51]^[52] The Qatari Minister of Interior and Commander of Lekhwiya (the Qatari security forces) convened a meeting on 3 April 2024 to discuss security operations ahead of the Olympics, with officials and security leaders in attendance, including Nasser Al-Khelaifi and Sheikh Jassim bin Mansour Al Thani.^[53] A week before the opening ceremony, the Lekhwiya were reported to have been deployed in Paris on 16 July 2024.^[54]

In the weeks running up to the opening of the Paris Olympics, it was reported that police officers would be deployed from Belgium,^[55] Brazil,^[56] Canada (through the RCMP/OPP/CPS/SQ),^[57]^[58]^[59] Cyprus,^[60] the Czech Republic,^[61] Denmark,^[62] Estonia,^[63]^[64] Finland,^[65] Germany (through Bundespolizei^[66]^[67]/NRW Police^[68]),^[69] India,^[70]^[71] Ireland,^[72] Italy,^[73] Luxembourg,^[74] Morocco,^[75] Netherlands,^[76] Norway,^[58] Poland,^[77] Portugal,^[78] Slovakia,^[79] South Korea,^[80]^[81] Spain (through the CNP/GC),^[82] Sweden,^[83] the UAE,^[84] the UK,^[49] and the US (through the LAPD,^[85] LASD,^[86] NYPD,^[87] and the Fairfax County Police Department^[88]), with more than 40 countries providing police assistance to their French counterparts.^[89]^[90]

Security concerns impacted the plans that had been announced for the opening ceremony, which was to take place as a public event along the Seine; the expected attendance was reduced by half from an estimated 600,000 to 300,000, with plans for free viewing locations now being by invitation only. In April 2024, after Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Crocus City Hall attack in March, and made several threats against the UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, French president Emmanuel Macron indicated that the opening ceremony could be scaled back or re-located if necessary.^[91]^[92]^[93] French authorities had placed roughly 75,000 police and military officials on the streets of Paris in the lead-up to the Games.^[94]

Following the end of the Games, the national counterterrorism prosecutor, Olivier Christen, revealed that French authorities foiled three terror plots meant to attack the Olympic and Paralympic Games, resulting in the arrest of five suspects.^[95]

Food

To reduce the environmental impact and climate footprint of the Paris 2024 Games,^[96] the Olympic venues served twice as much plant-based food as was available in London in 2012 and Rio in 2016.^[97] Vegan chicken nuggets and vegan hot dogs were served in place of the meat-based variety.^[98] Venues for spectators served on average two-thirds plant-based meals. The Place de la Concorde, the venue that hosted the skateboarding, breakdancing and BMX events, only served plant-based food. The football stadiums served 40% plant-based food. About 30% of the meals served to athletes in the Olympic Village were plant-based.^[99]

A prior estimate of 13 million meals will be served at the Games;^[96] with around 40,000 meals each day, 1,200 of those will be Michelin-starred.^[98] Each day, a boulangerie will bake fresh baguettes and other breads.^[100] A 3,500-seat restaurant was constructed for the Games to highlight global cuisine. Great Britain's team asked for porridge to be added to the menu, and South Korea's team asked for kimchi.^[98]

Throughout the Games, various athletes and competitors at the Olympic Village complained about certain foods within the accommodation such as eggs and grilled meats not being available in sufficient quantity.^[101]^[102] British athletes also reportedly complained about raw meat being served and the food issues led many of them to begin to avoid the Olympic Village dining facilities and to eat elsewhere; the British Olympic Association having flown in chefs to take care of the nourishment of British athletes at a location outside the Olympic Village.^[102]^[103]^[104]^[105]

Air conditioning

In the lead-up to the Games, it was announced that the Olympic Village would lack air conditioning; as an environmental measure, the buildings would instead use a geothermal natural cooling system to keep the inside temperature 6 °C (11 °F) cooler than outside.^[106] On learning this, many teams opted to supply their own air-conditioning units to the Games, including Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Germany, Greece, Denmark, Japan, and the US.^[107]Olympic delegations from poorer countries, such as Uganda, complained that they could not afford to provide air conditioning for their athletes.^[108]

Transportation

Over €500 million has been invested in transport improvements for the Games,^[109] with extensions to the Paris Métro and 60 kilometres (37 mi) of new cycle lanes.^[110]^[111] Visitors to Paris will pay higher public transport fares during the Games, €4 instead of the previous €2.15 price. This will pay for the increased frequency and hours of service for public transport during the Games, with an average increase of 15% in services.^[109]^[112] As with previous Games, 185 kilometres (115 mi) of reserved traffic lanes will be used to ensure reliable journey times for athletes, officials and the media.^[113]

Volunteers

The Paris 2024 volunteer platform for the Olympic and Paralympic Games was opened to the public in March 2023. There were expected to be 45,000 volunteers recruited worldwide for the Games.^[114] Following the end of registration on 3 May 2023, over 300,000 applications had been submitted to the Paris Organising Committee, exceeding the number of applicants for the previous two Olympics.^[115] Applicants were notified of the outcome of their application between September and December 2023.^[116] Over 800 applicants were excluded over security fears, among which 15 were flagged with Fiche S.^[117]

Torch relay

The Olympic torch relay began with the lighting of the Olympic flame on 16 April in Olympia, Greece, 100 days before the start of the Games. Greek rower Stefanos Douskos was the first torchbearer and swimmer Laure Manaudou served as the first French torchbearer.^[118]^[119] The latter was selected to be one of four captains of the torch relay, alongside swimmer Florent Manaudou (her brother), paratriathlete Mona Francis [fr], and para-athlete Dimitri Pavadé.^[120]^[121] The torch relay is expected to have 10,000 torchbearers and visit over 400 settlements in 65 French territories, including six overseas.^[118] On 18 May, it was reported that the portion of the relay in New Caledonia was cancelled due to ongoing unrest in the collectivity.^[122]

Tickets

9.5 million of the 10 million tickets available for the games were sold. Several sports reported record attendance.^[123]