The 2024 Paris Olympics
Here we are. The 2024 Paris Summer Olympics has commenced, and it is completely finished. Consequently, the athletes in the world gave it their all via their inspiring performances. Previously, the Tokyo Olympics took place in 2021 because of the pandemic, and now we live in a new important year of our history. The Olympics has been a very special occasion where men and women (including some of the greatest athletes in the world) compete not only for a gold medal. They compete to be the best at what they do from track and field, volleyball, basketball, tennis, golf, boxing, breakdancing, and other sports found in the Olympics. Olympic history includes Jesse Owens winning the race in Berlin, the women's 4 X 100m relay team of America having a world record (with Carmelita Jeter, Allyson Felix, Bianca Knight, and Tianna Madison establishing the time of 40.82 seconds), the 1992 Dream Team inspiring international basketball, the Redeem Team being led by Kobe Bryant to win gold, and swimming records existing by Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky. When I was a child, I watched the Olympics as being inspired to live a better life than in the past. Now, the Olympics in Paris is about the younger generation of athletes forming the start of their legacies, and the older athletes going about to finish up their legacies filled with excellence and power. Sha'Cari Richardson winning the 100m Olympic trials showed her passion for track and field and her wisdom is all part of the story of her life filled with strength, resiliency, and a love of the art of athletic competition. We live in a new era of time. Numerous folks of Generation X are approaching their 60s, many people in my generation of the Millennials are in middle age now, and the younger generations of human beings (found in the Generations of Generation Z and Generation Alpha) should be allowed to fulfill their dreams and aspirations.
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An Overview of Paris
The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics lasting from July 26, 2024, to August 11, 2024, in Paris, France is a very important occurrence among the human family. Events took place in 16 other cities spread across Metropolitain France too. There was one subsite in Tahiti which is an island within the French overseas country and overseas collectivity of French Polynesia. The motto of the Games is Ourvron grand les Jeux or "Games Wide Open." There were events in 32 sports. The opening ceremony took place in the Jardins du Trocadero and the Seine. The closing ceremony took place at Stade de France. Paris, France was awarded the Games at the 131st IOC Session in Lima, Peru, on September 13, 2017. The International Olympic Committee also awarded Los Angeles with the 2028 Summer Olympics too. Paris won the bidding process competing against Hamburg, Boson, Budapest, Rome, and Los Angeles. Paris is the second city to host the Summer Olympics three times as Paris hosted the Olympics in 1900 and 1924. London also hosted the Olympics in 1908, 1948, and in 2012. The Paris Olympics of 2024 will mark the centenary of Paris 1924 and Chamonix 1924 (marking the centenary of the Winter Olympics). There are many items of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics like the debut of breakdancing as an Olympic event. It will be the final Olympic Games held during the IOC Presidency of Thomas Rich. The 2024 Games are expected to cost 8.4 billion euros. The development and preparation for the 2024 Olympics were very extensive. Most of the Olympic events will took in Paris and its metropolitan region like the neighboring cities of Saint-Denis, Le Bourget, Nanterre, Versailles, and Vaires-sur-Marne.
The basketball preliminaries and handball finals were held in Lille, which is 225 km (140 mi) from the host city; the sailing and some football (or soccer to us from the States) games were held in the Mediterranean city of Marseille, which is 777 km (483 mi) from the host city; meanwhile, the surfing events was held in Teahupo'o village in the overseas territory of French Polynesia, which is 15,716 km (9,765 mi) from Paris, the host city. Football or soccer will also be hosted in another five cities, which are Bordeaux, Décines-Charpieu (Lyon), Nantes, Nice, and Saint-Étienne, some of which are home to Ligue 1 clubs. The Grand Paris zone has facilities for field hockey, rugby, sports climbing, boxing, modern pentathlon, and other events. The Paris Centre zone has places like the Parc Des Princes with soccer, the Stade Roland Garros with tennis and boxing finals, Paris Expo Porte de Versailles (with volleyball, table tennis, handball, and weightlifting), Hotel dev Ville, Bercy Arena, and other places. The Versailles zone has the Gardens of the Palace of Versailles with equestrian and modern pentathlon (excluding fencing rounds), Le Golf National with golf, the Elancourt Hill (with cycling and mountain biking), and the Veldrome de Saint-Quentin en-Yvelines (with track cycling and BMX racing in cycling). There are other places where other sports will take place too like Parc Olympique Lyonnais and Roucas Blanc Olympic Marina in Marseille.
Paris 2024 President 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 Games logo engraved into it. Approximately 5,084 medals would be produced by the French mint Monnaie de Paris, and were designed by Chaumet, a luxury jewelry firm based in Paris. The reverse sides of the medals feature 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. 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. The gold medals are made with 98.8 percent silver and 1.13 percent gold, while the bronze medals are made up of copper, zinc, and tin. Europol and the UK Home Office with help France with security during the Games. The British Army had Star streak surface to air missile units for air security too. Paris police did rehearsals with their bomb disposal unit before the Games.
As a part of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani's visit to France, several agreements were signed between two nations to enhance security for the Olympics. In preparation for the significant security demands and counterterrorist measures, Poland has pledged to contribute security troops, including sniffer dog handlers, to support international efforts aimed at ensuring the safety of the Games. The Qatari Minister of Interior and Commander of Lekhwiya convened a meeting on April 3, 2024, ahead of the Olympics, with officials and security leaders, including Nasser Al-Khelaifi and Sheikh Jassim bin Mansour Al Thani to discuss security operations. 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.
The Olympic torch relay began with the lighting of the Olympic flame on April 16, 2024, 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. 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. The torch relay is expected to have 10,000 torchbearers and visit over 400 settlements in 65 French territories, including six overseas. On May 18, 2024, it was reported that the portion of the relay in New Caledonia was canceled due to ongoing unrest in the collectivity.
Quand j’étais adolescent de 1997 à 2000, j’ai pris des cours de français (quand j’étais au lycée). Aujourd’hui, j’honore les combattants de la liberté en France comme Joséphine Baker qui a aidé à vaincre le fascisme pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
The city of Paris is the capital and largest city of France with about 2,102,650 people in an area of more than 41 square miles. Paris is the fourth largest city in the European Union and the 30th most densely populated in the world in 2022. We know Paris to be a major location of finance, diplomacy, commerce, culture, fashion, and gastronomy. It has a large culture of respecting arts and sciences. There are world-prominent locations in Paris like the Eiffel Tower near the Seine River, Notre Dame, Sacre Coeur, Pantheon, Arc de Triomphe, Palais Garnier, The Louvre, and other locations. The motto of the city of Paris is Fluctuat nec mergitur (or Tossed by the waves but never sunk). Opened in 1900, the city's subway system, the Paris Métro, serves 5.23 million passengers daily; it is the second-busiest metro system in Europe after the Moscow Metro. Gare du Nord is the 24th-busiest railway station in the world and the busiest outside Japan, with 262 million passengers in 2015. Paris has one of the most sustainable transportation systems and is one of only two cities in the world that received the Sustainable Transport Award twice. Paris has a long history. The modern city of Paris was mentioned in 1st century B.C. It was mentioned by Julius Caesar as Luteciam Parisiorum ('Lutetia of the Parisii'), and is later attested as Parision in the 5th century AD, then as Paris in 1265. During the Roman period, it was commonly known as Lutetia or Lutecia in Latin, and as Leukotekía in Greek, which is interpreted as either stemming from the Celtic root *lukot- ('mouse'), or from *luto- ('marsh, swamp').
The name Paris is derived from its early inhabitants, the Parisii, a Gallic or Celtic tribe from the Iron Age and the Roman period. The meaning of the Gaulish ethnonym remains debated. According to Xavier Delamarre, it may derive from the Celtic root pario- ('cauldron'). Alfred Holder interpreted the name as 'the makers' or 'the commanders', by comparing it to the Welsh peryff ('lord, commander'), both possibly descending from a Proto-Celtic form reconstructed as *kwar-is-io-. Alternatively, Pierre-Yves Lambert proposed to translate Parisii as the 'spear people', by connecting the first element to the Old Irish carr ('spear'), derived from an earlier *kwar-sā. In any case, the city's name is not related to the Paris of Greek mythology. The Parisii was a sub-tribe of the Celtic Senomes people who lied in the Paris area from ca. the middle of the 3rd century B.C. The Romans conquered the Paris Basin in 52 B.C. The area was called Lutetia then later Paris. The first Christian Bishop of Paris was St. Denis of the middle of the 3rd century. Paris saw Clovis the Frank or the first King of the Merovingian dynasty. Paris was made his capital in 508. Paris saw Charlemagne, the sacking of it by the Vikings in 845, and the Hundred Years' War (when Paris was occupied by the English and Joan of Arc tried to liberate the city in 1429. The English occupied Paris until 1436).
In the late 16th-century French Wars of Religion, Paris was a stronghold of the Catholic League, the organizers of the evil August 24, 1572, St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in which thousands of innocent French Protestants were killed. The conflicts ended when Henry IV, after converting to Catholicism to gain entry to the capital, entered the city in 1594 to claim the crown of France. This king made several improvements to the capital during his reign: he completed the construction of Paris's first uncovered, sidewalk-lined bridge, the Pont Neuf, built a Louvre extension connecting it to the Tuileries Palace, and created the first Paris residential square, the Place Royale, now Place des Vosges. In spite of Henry IV's efforts to improve city circulation, the narrowness of Paris's streets was a contributing factor in his assassination near Les Halles marketplace in 1610. Paris saw kings, the French Revolution, Napoleon, the liberation of Paris during WWII, the Charlie Hebdo shooting, transportation growth, and protests. Therefore, the Paris Olympics will be filled with great strength.
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The Opening Ceremony
The Olympics Opening Ceremony has started on Friday at 1:30 pm. EST. That time is 7:30 pm. Paris time, so Paris is 6 hours ahead of us who live in the Eastern Standard Time of the Americas. The movie director Steven Spielberg spoke the introduction to the 2024 Paris Olympics Games in a speech. It starts with a French soccer legend taking the torch. The people carrying the torch will first go around the city of Paris. The ceremony began with a commercial celebrating the diverse people of Paris from parks to the Paris subway. Then, French President Emmanuel Marcon and the President of the IOC met with each other and shook hands. They will sit in the stadium to enjoy the Olympics Opening Ceremony show. Later, kids on a boat with the Olympic flame travel across the river. The colors show the French flag. People in the audience wave the French flag. Tons of fans and athletes' families are in the crowd celebrating the arrival of the Olympic flame. Tons of people are watching outside of homes and apartments in Paris to see the ceremony too. It has been 100 years since the 1924 Paris Olympics too.
Each segment of the show has a theme. The 2nd theme is called Enchante. First, the Greek delegation of athletes travels on the Parade of Nations. The Greek delegation of athletes always goes first involving the Parade of Nations. They ride on the boat for the ceremony in Paris. People wave the flag of Greece too. The Refugee Team show their support riding in a large boat too with many athletes. Nations come by the river in mostly alphabetical order. Lady Gaga performed a song in Paris France. Lady Gaga performed a dance routine with many dancers. In France, dance performance culture is very popular and historic. The Parade of Nation of Boats ceremony is part of the early part of the Olympic ceremony. Snoop was also in the ceremonies as a commentator along with Hoda Kotb and others like Kelly Clarkson and Peyton Manning. A segment of people is working to build up Notre Dame, which will be released to the public by December 2024. This comes after a fire nearly destroyed it. A masked person jumped into buildings in France to travel with the Olympic Flame. The person goes into a Louis Vuitton store. Their ceremony celebrates the Olympic and Paralympic medals. People carry a large box around Paris with dancers. The Concord bridge is lit and the Afro-French artist from Mali performs. Her name is Aya Nakamura. I heard of her music for years.
Then, the French national anthem is sung by another singer, Axelle-Saint-Cirel. The French national anthem is called La Marseillaise from the roof of the Grand Palais. There has been a fashion show on the stage too. The American team came with LeBron James and Coco Gauff as the flag bearers. The last team was the French team. It was raining in Paris as the boats traveled on the Seine River. The 2024 Paris Olympics is about both previous Olympian champions continuing their legacies and the younger generation beginning their own great legacy involving a diversity of athletic sports. As athletes get off their boats, the Caldron lightning takes place. There was the Delegation of Athletes. These human beings displayed flags of all nations involved in the Paris Olympics near the Eiffel Tower. The masked person rides a horse and then goes on a Paris, France stadium stage. Then, the person gives the flag to people, and the Olympic anthem is shown. While this is occurring, the Olympic flag is raised. A massive light show existed on the Eiffel Tower too. The Olympic flame was on a boat with Serena Williams, Nadal, Carl Lewis, and another person. Later, Tony Parker carries the torch and sends it to other people (including members of the Paralympic athletes too). The Caldron is at 5:23 pm. EST or 11:23 pm. Paris time. The flame is lit in the Paris games. A balloon flies in the air. The purpose of this action was to commemorate a high-air balloon being established by French people back in 1792. The balloon flies around the Paris landscape. Celine Dion sends a song to celebrate the beginning of the Paris Summer Olympic Games in 2024. Celine Dion is courageously battling a disease, but she can out to Paris to show a splendid performance. This Opening Ceremony here is one of the most unique, diverse ceremonies in Olympic history.
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The Early Era
The Summer Olympics flowed with tons of results. Events started as early as Wednesday, and Saturday is the first day of events after the Opening Ceremony in Paris. Nic Fink advanced to the 100m breaststroke final for Team USA. America's Gauff and Pegula advanced to round 2 of women's doubles. America won silver in the women's 4 X 100m freestyle relay, Australia won gold, and China won bronze. Team USA won gold in the men's 4 X 100m freestyle relay. This is the first gold medal won by America. Katie Ledecky won the bronze in the 400m relay freestyle, Australia's Ariarne Titmus took gold, and Canada's Summer McIntosh won silver.
By July 28, 2024, many things have happened during the early era of the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris. Lebron James and Kevin Durant lead the USA men's basketball team to defeat Serbia in a Group game. Also, Simone Biles fought through calf pain to make a great return to Olympic gymnastics. Simone Biles is the greatest gymnast in human history. French swimmer Leon Marchand set an Olympic record by winning gold in the 400m individual race. Marchand was a fan favorite in Paris, France. Also, Torri Huske and Gretchen Walsh finished first and second in the women's 100m butterfly final. A heat wave will come to Paris soon. By Tuesday and Wednesday, temperatures would reach 93 to 97 degrees, in Bordeaux, high temperatures can be 100 degrees by Monday, and other cities (like Lyons and Marseilles) may reach very high temperatures too. Australia's women's soccer team had a victory over Zambia with a score of 6-5. Zambia's Deborah Abiodun comforts teammate Jennifer Echegini after their loss. Great Britain's Andy Murray celebrates his doubles victory in the first round with Dan Evans. This is the first round of the men's doubles tournament. Regarding the 100m men's swimming breaststroke, Italy's Nicolo Martinenghi won gold, while the U.S. and UK swimmers tied for silver. The American Nic Fink and Great Britain's Adam Peaty of the UK tied for silver with a time of 59.05 seconds.
For the women's archery team, South Korea won gold, China won silver, and Mexico won bronze. For the K-1 canoeing, Australia's Jessica Fox won gold, Poland's Klaudia Zwolinkska won silver, and Kimberly Woods from Great Britain won bronze. As for Men's time trial, Belgium's Evenepoel won gold, Filippo Ganna won silver from Italy, and Wout van Aert from Belgium won bronze. As for women's time trial of cycling, Grace Brown of Australia won gold, Anna Henderson of Great Britain won silver, and Chloe Dyger of America won bronze. As for women's mountain biking, Pauline Ferrand-Prevot from France won gold, Haley Batten from America won silver, and Jenny Rissveds of Sweden won bronze. Involving individual foil of fencing, Lee Kiefer of America won gold, Lauren Scruggs of America (she grew up in Queens, New York City. She is one of the two black fencers from America to have won an individual world championship. She is part of the Harvard University class of 2025) won silver, and Eleanor Harvey from Canada won bronze.
For the Olympic results by July 29, 2024, the Team USA men's gymnasts won their first medal in the team event since 2008 with a bronze medal. Yuto Horigome from Japan won the men's street skateboarding with Americans Jagger Eaton and Nyjah Huston taking silver and bronze. The U.S. women's basketball team defeated Japan in its first group stage. The score was 102-76. A'ja Wilson scored 24 points, Breanna Stewart had 22, and Brittney Griner, Sabrina Ionescu, and Kelsey Plum each had 11 points as well. This was 56 consecutive Olympic wins for the USA women's national basketball team. Gold medalist Summer McIntosh of Canada won the women's 400m individual medley final at Paris La Defense Arena (in swimming). Katie Grimes won silver for America and Emma Weyant of America won bronze. The women's rugby team from America beat Great Britain in the score of 17-7 to go to the medal round.
There are a lot of updates on Day 4 of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics (on July 30, 2024). The United States' Bobby Finke won a silver medal in the men's 800m freestyle. Ireland's Daniel Wiffen won the gold, and Italy's Gregorio Paltrinieri won the bronze. Wiffen had a time of 38.19 seconds. Finke had 38.75 seconds. Australia's Kaylee McKeown won gold in the women's 100m backstroke on Tuesday (with a time of 57.33 seconds). The Americans Regan Smith and Katharine Berkoff won silver and bronze respectively with times of 57.66 seconds and 57.98 seconds. The USA's women's gymnastics team made gold in the team final. Italy had silver, and Brazil had bronze. That means that the USA women's gymnastics team victors of the team event are Simone Biles, Jade Carey, Jordan Chiles, Sunisa Lee, and Hezly Rivera. Historically, Simone Biles has 7 Olympic gold medals, being the 3rd most decorated woman Olympic gymnast. She has the most Olympic medals earned by a U.S. gymnast too. USA's Miles Partain and Andy Benesh defeated Morocco to move on to play against Brazil in beach volleyball. In women's rugby, New Zealand won gold, Canada won silver, and America won bronze. America's women's rugby team came back to win their first rugby medal for the U.S. since 1924.
The July 31, 2024, Olympic updates are very lengthy. Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre congratulated Team USA. Canada's women's soccer team advanced with their 1-0 win over Colombia. The USA men's Basketball USA Team defeated South Sudan in a hard-fought game with a score of 103-86. America goes to 2-0 in group play and can play in the quarterfinals. Bam Adebayo led America with 18 points, Kevin Durant had 12 points, and LeBron James had 14 points. They will play Puerto Rico on Saturday. Chinese prodigy Pan Zhanle won the 100m freestyle in a world record. He is 19 years old with a time of 46.40 seconds. Katie Ledecky won gold in the 1500m freestyle final in swimming at Nanterre, France. She tied for the most gold and overall medals won by an American woman swimmer at the Olympics. France's Leon Marchand won gold in the 200m breaststroke for men. Brazil's soccer team advances. The U.S. women's water polo team defeated Italy with a score of 10-3.
On August 1, 2024, tons of Olympic events took place. Simone Biles has won gold in the all-around final. She is the first American gymnast to ever win the event twice. Simone Biles is the greatest gymnast in human history. Andrade of Brazil has silver, and Sumi Lee has bronze from America. It was a tough battle, and Simone Biles made history once again. Biles thanked her coaches, Cecile and Laurent Landi plus her therapist. She is also one of the greatest athletes in history being 27 years old and winning her first gold medal when she was 19 at Rio (in 2016). American women took silver in the 4 X 200m freestyle swimming relay. The relay team consisted of Ledecky, Claire Weinstein, Paige Maden, and Erin Gemmell. Katie Ledecky of America now has her 13th medal. Australia had gold and China took bronze. The American basketball women's team defeated Belgium (with a score of 87-74) being undefeated. A'ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart lead the USA women's basketball team in scoring. The women's team fencing event won gold for the first time at the 2024 Paris Games. The team includes Lee Kiefer, Lauren Scruggs, Jackie Dubrovich, and Maia Weintraub. This is Scruggs's second medal ever and Kiefer has more career-fencing Olympic gold medals than any U.S. athlete. The Italian team has silver. The American Kate Douglass had her first career gold by winning the 200m breaststroke, upsetting South Africa's Tatjana Smith. Tes Schouten of the Netherlands had bronze. Hungary's Hubert Kos won gold in the 200m backstroke. Switzerland's Roman Mityuko took bronze, and silver was given to Apostolos Christou of Greece. Canada's Summer McIntosh won 200m butterfly, American Regan Smith had silver, and China's Zhang Yufei took bronze.
On August 2, 2024, there are tons of events during the 2024 Paris Olympics. France defeated Argentina 1-0 to go to the men's soccer semifinal. America's men won a 3 on 3 basketball game against China, 21-17, to be back into the medal hunt. France's Joris Daudet won gold in the BMX race. There are tons of track and field news too. Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei won a gold medal in the 10k men's final. He has the Olympic record time of 26:43:14. Ethiopia's Berihu Aregawi won silver and America's Grant Fisher won bronze, being the first American to medal in the 10,000m since Galen Rupp won silver in the 2012 London Games. The U.S. set a world record in the 4 X 400m mixed relay winning the race in the time of 3:07:41 in their heat. The quartet is made up of Bryce Deadmon, Shamier Little, Vernon Norwood, and Kaylyn Brown. Leon Marchand won his fourth gold medal in the 200m individual men's race. Duncan Scott of Great Britain won silver and Wang Shun of China won bronze. Australia's Cameron McEvoy won gold in the men's 50m freestyle. America's rowing team won gold. Australia's Kaylee McKewon won gold in the 200m women's backstroke, America's Regan Smith won silver, etc. America took bronze in the mixed team archery event, America won silver in the Equestrian men's team jumping, and more events came about. Sha'Carri Richardson won her 100m first track and field heat with a great time. Shelly-Ann Fraser Pryce, Ta-Lou, and other legends in track and field will go to the semifinals including Sha'Cari Richardson, Twanisha Terry, and Melissa Jefferson.
History Being Made
On August 3, 2024, tons of historic moments happened at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games. Involving gymnastics, Simone Biles took home another gold medal for the vault event, Rebeca Andrade won silver, and Jade Carey of America won bronze. She is now the third most decorated women Olympic gymnast and the greatest gymnast in human history. For the 100m women's finals, the winners are known now. Saint Lucia's Julien Alfred won gold in the women's 100m final. It's Saint Lucia's first medal ever in the Olympics. America's Sha'Carri Richardson won the silver, and American Melissa Jefferson won bronze. The fans at Saint Lucia celebrated loudly and joyfully for Julien Alfred. Richardson and Jefferson are the first Americans to win 2 medals in the women's 100m since 1996 during the days of the iconic track and field legend Gail Devers. Ukraine won its first gold medal in the Paris Olympics with Olga Kharlan winning gold in the women's team saber. South Korea's Jeon Eunhye won silver. Summer McIntosh won gold in the 200m individual swimming race with Kate Douglass winning silver. McIntosh is from Canada. The Netherlands won the mixed 4 X 400m relay with Femke Bol and America won silver. Ryan Crouser won his third straight gold medal in the shot put, American Joe Kovacs won silver, and Jamaica's Rajindra Campbell won bronze. America's Jasmine Moore won bronze in the triple jump, Dominica's Thea Lafond won gold, and Jamaica's Shineka Rickets won silver. Katie Ledecky won gold in the 800m freestyle. Australia's Ariane Titmus and America's Paige Madden won silver and bronze respectively. Ledecky won her ninth gold and 14th overall medal. She is the most decorated women Olympic swimmer of all time. For the men's 10,000m, Uganda's Joshua Cheptegei won gold and America's Grant Fisher won bronze, being the second U.S.-born men's 10,000m medalist since 1964. The men's USA basketball team defeated Puerto Rico to move on to the basketball tournament with Anthony Edwards making most of the points. The US 4x100m mixed medley swimming team won gold with a world record of 3:37:43. The team is made up of Ryan Murphy, Nic Fink, Gretchen Walsh, and Torri Huske. The American women's soccer team with Trinity Rodman (or Dennis Rodman's daughter), Mallory Swanson, and others defeated Japan to go further in the soccer Olympic tournament.
Some of the greatest news about the 2024 Paris Olympic Games is to place on August 4, 2024 (on Sunday). We have Team USA's Noah Lyles fulfilling his wish to win gold in the 100m men's race. It was one of the closest races in Olympic history, and Noah Lyles was the first American to win the men's 100m race in 20 years. Jamaica's Kishane Thompson won silver, and America's Fred Kerley won bronze. Lyles celebrated with her mother, sister, girlfriend, and teammate Kerley. For the 1500m men's finals, many Americans will be part of it like Neguse, Cole Hocker, and Hobbs Kessler. Jakob Ingebrigtsen from Norway and Josh Kerr of Great Britain will be in the 1500m men's final too. Ukrainian high jumper Yaroslava Mahuckhikh won gold at the Stade de France for the women's high jump. She fled her hometown on the front lines of the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine. U.S. women took gold in the team foil event and America's men won bronze (and France won gold). America's Juliette Whittaker will go to the women's 800m final. Taiwan beat China for gold in the men's badminton doubles. American women won gold in the 4 X 100 medley swimming race with a time of 3:49:62, Australia won silver, and China won bronze. Nigeria is the first African basketball team among women to advance to the Olympic quarterfinals. America's women's basketball team defeated Germany in the tournament (with Jackie Young shooting many threes). China won the men's 4 X 100m medley swimming race, America was silver, and France was bronze.
USA's Bobby Finke set a world record in the 1500m freestyle men's swimming race winning gold. Silver was won by Italy's Gregorio Paltrinieri and China had bronze with Ireland's Daniel Wiffen. Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom won gold in the 50m women's freestyle, Australia's Meg Harris won silver, and China's Zhang Yufei won bronze. Gretchen Walsh from Nashville was fourth. Scottie Scheffler of America won gold in golf, and he was emotional when the American national anthem was played on stage. Tommy Fleetwood of Great Britain won silver, and Japan's Hideki Matsuyama won bronze. Women's road cycling had American Kristen Faulkner win gold. She is the first American woman to win gold in the women's road race since 1984. Cameroon-born Cindy Ngamba won the first medal for the Refugee Olympic Team with a bronze in boxing of 75kg. Djokovic won gold in men's tennis being his first Olympic gold medal. Kaylia Nemour of Algeria won Africa's first gymnastics medal in gold, America's Sumi Lee won bronze, and Qiu Qiyuan won silver in uneven bars. Gabby Thomas will go to the semifinals in the 200m race.
The August 5, 2024, events of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games have been historic too. For the 800m women's race, Great Britain's Keely Hodgkinson won gold, Tsige Dgume of Ethiopia won silver, and Mary Moraa of Kenya won bronze. For men's soccer, France and Egypt faced each other. For the women's 5000m race, Kenyan Beatrice Chebet won gold, Faith Kipyegon won silver from Kenya, and Sifan Hassan won bronze from the Netherlands. In the 3X3 basketball involving women, America defeated Canada for the bronze. Germany will play Spain in the gold medal game later today. Involving the 200m semifinals, all three Americans move to the women's 200m semifinals. American Brittany Brown with a time of 22.12, McKenzie Long of America, and American Gabby Thomas will race for the 200m finals along with St. Lucia's Julien Alfred. For equestrian individual jumping qualifiers, Julien Epaillard of France, Shane Sweetnam of Ireland, and Karl Cook of America rode perfect courses to top the scores and make the finals. As for the 200m finals, Noah Lyles, Erriyon Knighton, and Kenneth Bednarek will advance to the men's 200m finals. Armand Duplantis of Sweden wants to have a gold medal in the pole vault. Miles Partain and Andy Benesh of America will play in the men's beach volleyball quarterfinals. Kenneth Rooks is the only American to race at the men's 3000m steeplechase final. Canada moves on after America's defeat in the women's beach volleyball game. Denmark's Viktor Axelsen won gold in the badminton men's singles event. As for women's gymnastics, Beyonce's music underscores the first all-Black Olympic gymnastics podium with Rebeca Andrade of Brazil, Simone Biles of America, and Jordan Chiles of America. American Nikki Hiltz raced in the 1500m women's race. Rebeca Andrade of Brazil won her first gold medal involving the floor event of gymnastics. She is Brazil's most decorated Olympic athlete. Jordan Chiles won bronze, and Simone Biles won silver.
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games on August 6, 2024, have great developments. Track and field athlete Gabby Thomas of America fulfilled her dream. She won the 200m women's race representing the new generation of track and field athletes. She is already a legend who graduated from Harvard, has a social consciousness about health care issues, and continues to help people in real life in Austin, Texas to live better quality lives. Julien Alfred of Saint Lucia won silver after winning gold in the 100m, and Brittany Brown took bronze in the women's 200m race. Brittany Brown worked hard in her career too. Gabby Thomas is the first American woman to win the 200m event since the icon Allyson Felix won it in 2012 (at London's Summer Olympics). Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone won the women's 400m hurdles semifinals to compete for the 400m hurdles final. Her rival is the Netherlands runner Femke Bol. Cuba's Mijain Lopez made Olympic history and was the first Olympian to win the same event during five Olympics in a row. He won the Greco-Roman wrestling event. Chilean Yasmani Acota won silver. Lopez put his shoes on the center of the mat to indicate that he is retiring.
For the 1500m men's race, U.S. long-distance runner Cole Hocker won gold, Great Britain's Josh Kerr won silver, and America's Yared Neguse won bronze. It is the first time in 112 years that two Americans earned spots on the Olympic men's 1500m podium. Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigsten didn't get the medals. Brazil and Spain played in women's soccer. The U.S. women's soccer team defeated Germany with a goal from Sophia Smith. They will play Brazil in the Olympic final for the women's tournament. Australian skateboarder Arisa Trew won gold in the women's park final, Japan's Cocona Hiraki earned silver, and UK's Sky Brown won the bronze medal. Snoop and Martha Stewart give a play-by-play commentary on the Olympic dressage action in dealing with horses. America's men basketball team beat Brazil in the semifinals against Brazil in a score of 122 to 87. Filipino gymnast Carlos Yulo was his country's first double Olympic gold medalist. Freddie Crittenden from America breezed his round in the men's 100m hurdles semifinals. America's Caroline Marks earned the gold medal in the women's surfing event. Germany's Christian Kukuk won gold in the three-way jump-off involving equestrian. Silver went to Steve Guerdat of Switzerland, and bronze came to Maikel van der Vleuten of the Netherlands. Rock climbing grows in the Olympics too. For the women's hammer throw, Canada's Camryn Rogers won gold. America's Annette Echikunwoke won silver, and Zhao Jie of China won bronze. As for the women's discus throw, America's Valarie Allman won gold, Fen Bin of China won silver, and Sandra Elkasevic from Croatia won bronze. Valerie Allman is the first American to win the discus throw for back-to-back Olympic Games.
There are many Paris Summer Olympic developments in the date of August 7, 2024. For the first time, Team USA will wear no medals involving beach volleyball. The U.S. women's basketball team beats Nigeria 88-74 to reach the women's semifinal. Every member of the American women's basketball team scored. A'ja Wilson led Team USA with 20 points, followed by Jackie Young with 15 points. Team USA will play Australia on Friday in the semifinal. America's Kenneth Rooks took silver in the 3,000m steeplechase, and Morocco's Sofiane El Bakkhali won gold. Kenya's Abraham Kibiwot took the bronze. Unfortunately, Ethiopia's Lamecha Girma had to be carried out of the field on a stretcher after being injured during the race. America's Sarah Ann Hildebrandt won gold in the women's 50kg freestyle. Cuba's Yusneylis Guzman Lopez won silver. This is America's gold medal in wrestling at the Paris Olympics, after Amit Elor won the women's freestyle 68-kilogram. As for the women's pole vault, Katie Moon won silver, Australia's Nina Kennedy won gold, and Canada's Alysha Newman won bronze. Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting will fight in the finals of the featherweight boxing match.
America's Quincy Hall won gold in the 400m men's race. Quincy Hall was trailing at first, and he had to dig deep to win the race stunningly. Great Britain's Matthew Hudson-Smith won silver and Zambia's Muzala Samukonga won bronze. Hall rang the bell and made a snow angel on the track to celebrate. The women's USA team won silver for artistic swimming for their first medal in 20 years. The song was Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson for one of their routines. China won gold. The 200m finals will include 3 Americans who are Erriyon Knighton, Noah Lyles, and Kenneth Bednarek. Rai Benjamin of America also advanced to the 400m hurdles final. The U.S. men water polo team goes into the semifinals for the first time since 2008 after defeating Australia. The U.S. team will face Serbia in the semifinals. America's Kristen Faulkner won gold in the team pursuit race of cycling. The team is made up of Faulkner, Jennifer Valente, Lily Williams, and Chloe Dygert. New Zealand won silver, and Great Britain won bronze. America's men's volleyball team will compete for bronze after losing to Poland. Australia's Keegan Palmer being 21 defended his gold medal in the park finals, Tom Schaar won silver, and Brazil's Augusto Ako won bronze. Snoop Dogg was there to cheer. Hampton Morris won bronze in the 61kg division weightlifting for men, China's Li Fabin won gold, and Thailand's Theerapong Silachi won silver. Kevin Durant broke Lisa Leslie's Olympic record for the most points scored by an American Olympian basketball player, and Durant praised Lisa Leslie afterward. Kevin Durant wrote the following words, "Lisa Leslie you are the gold standard in basketball."
The Final Competitions
Many situations are happening on August 8, 2024, during the 2024 Paris Olympics. Team USA's Tara Davis-Woodhall won gold in the long jump with 7.10m, Malaika Mihambo won silver at 6.98, and American Jasmine Moore won bronze at 6.96m. Tara Davis-Woodhall showed charisma during the games with her celebrations and style. Team USA's Grant Holloway from Chesapeake, Virginia won the 110m hurdles with the time of 12.99 seconds. Daniel Roberts from America won silver, and Jamaica's Rasheed Broadbell won bronze. For the 200m's men race, Botswana's Letsile Tebogo won gold, Kenneth Bednarek won silver, and Noah Lyles won bronze. Noah Lyles was sick and said that he had COVID-19. There was the anticipated women's 400m hurdles race. The winner of the race was the track and field icon Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone with a new Olympic world record of 50.37 seconds. Anna Cockrell from America won silver, and the Netherlands Femke Bol won bronze. Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone worked hard to achieve her monumental achievement, and she is an icon of track and field. The men's USA basketball won a close game against Serbia (with help from Curry, Embiid, Lebron James, etc.). The score was 95-91. The USA men's basketball can play against France for the gold medal game on Saturday. For Men's C-2 500m in canoeing, China won gold, Italy won silver, and Spain won bronze. For men's field hockey, the Netherlands won gold, Germany won silver, and India won bronze. For women's marathon swimming 10km, Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands won gold, Moesha Johnson from Australia won silver, and Ginerva Taddeucci from Italy won bronze.
On this Paris 2024 Olympics on August 9, 2024, Sha'Charri Richardson achieved her first gold medal in the 4 X 100m women's relay. It was raining in Paris during that day, but her team won in a great fashion. Her team included Gabby Thomas, Melissa Jefferson, and Twansiha Terry. The new Olympic sport of breaking or breakdancing had the Japanese team winning gold. The U.S. women's basketball team defeated Australia with a score of 85-64 to advance to the Sunday gold medal game. The U.S. men's volleyball team defeated Italy for the bronze medal, winning in three sets. Spain won the men's soccer final against France. America's Olivia Reeves took gold in the 71kg weightlifting setting a new Olympic record in the process. Colombia's Mari Leivis Sanchez took silver and Ecuador's Angie Paola Palacio took bronze. Reeves won the first Olympic title in the event since Sydney in 2000. Rai Benjamin from the USA upset Karsten Warholm to win the 400m hurdles men's race. Rai Benjamin now is a gold medal winner. Warholm of Norway had silver, and Dos Santos of Brazil had bronze. Kenya's Beatrice Chebet took gold in the 10,000m women's race, Italy's Battocletti took silver, and Netherlands' Sifan Hassan took bronze. For the women's heptathlon, Nafissatou Thiam of Belgium won gold, UK's Katarina Johnson-Thompson won silver, and Anna Hall was fifth. Noor Vdts of Belgium has bronze. As for the 400m women's race, M. Paulino won gold from the Dominican Republic (with a new Olympic world record of 48.17 seconds), S. Eid Naser won silver from Bahrain, and N. Kaczmarek from Poland won bronze. A. Holmes from America was sixth.
On August 10, 2024, the Paris Olympics had tons of gold medal victories for the United States of America. The men's USA basketball team won gold against France with the score of 98 to 87. This game was close at times with Victor Wembanyama having 26 points. Yet, the American team with Lebron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, Embiid, and other players worked together to make a victory. France has silver for the fourth time. America has won five consecutive gold medals in men's basketball since 2008. Steph Curry made multiple threes at the end of the fourth quarter to have a victory. Famous people at the game are Jimmy Fallon, Carmelo Anthony, Scottie Pippen, Sue Bird, Megan Rapinoe, Pau Gasol, and Sa'Charri Richardson. So, America had gold, France had silver, and Serbia won bronze. Lin Yu-ting won gold in featherweight boxing. He defeated Poland's Julia Szeremeta. As for men's breakdancing, Canada's Phil Wizard had gold, Dany Dann of France had silver, and America's Victor had bronze. The U.S. won the women's 4 X 400m relay with the team of Alexis Holmes, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Gabby Thomas, and Shamier Little (including Quanera Hayes, Aaliyah Butler, and Kaylyn Brown). The Netherlands won silver, and Great Britain won bronze (with people like Victoria Ohuruogu, Yeargin, etc.). The USA men's track and field team won gold in the 4 X 400m relay too. Quincy Wilson (he is from the 757 in Chesapeake, Virginia) being 16 years old is the youngest Olympic track and field gold medalist. The other members of the team are Christopher Bailey, Vernon Norwood, Bryce Deadmon, and Rai Benjamin. Botswana won silver, and Great Britain won bronze.
America's Shelby McEwen won silver in the men's high jump, and gold was won by New Zealand's Hamish Kerr. For women's breakdancing, Ami of Japan won gold, Nicka of Lithuania won silver, and 671 of China won bronze. For the 1500m women's race, Kenya's Faith Kipyegon won gold, Australia's Jessica Hull won silver, and Great Britain's Georgia Bell won bronze. Grant Fisher won bronze for the men's 5000m, Norway's Jakob Ingebrigsten won gold, and Kenya's Ronald Kwemoi won silver. For the women's 100m hurdles, America's Masai Russell got her wish and won gold with a time of 12.33 seconds, France's Cyrena Samba-Mayela won silver with 12.34, and Jasmine Camacho-Quinn of Puerto Rico won bronze with a time of 12.36. The USA women's soccer team won gold in the finals. They defeated Brazil. Goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher saved potential goals from Brazil's team. This is Team USA's first goal in soccer since the 2012 Olympics. The team had Trinity Rodman, Mallory Swanson, Sophia Smith, Crystal Dunn, and other women representing a new generation of soccer legends. Imane Khelif won gold in the women's welterweight match. For women's gold, Lydia Ko won gold for New Zealand, Germany's Esther Henseleit won silver, and China's Xiyu Lin won bronze. China won women's table tennis match in gold.
The Closing Ceremony
The end of the 2024 Paris Olympics has been exciting. Thousands of people are at the closing ceremony celebrating in Paris. The women winners of the marathon were Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands who won gold, Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa who won silver, and Kenya's Hellen Obiri who won the bronze. The USA women's basketball team won gold in their historic eighth-straight gold medal. A'ja Wilson and other teammates worked hard to defeat France with a score of 67-66. Kahleah Cooper and Jackie Young were key in the victory by making crucial shots including playing great defense. A'ja Wilson scored 21 points, 13 boards, and 4 blocks in the game. Jennifer Valente won gold for Team USA in the women's cycling omnium. She defended the Olympic title that she won in Tokyo. Italy won gold in women's volleyball, USA won silver, and USA's Kennedy Blades won silver in the women's freestyle 76 kg wrestling event (Japan's Yuka Kagami won gold).
The closing ceremony has been filled with music. The Paris Games had world record-breaking track races, a historic first for the American women's rugby team, and other events. The closing ceremony started with a performance by Zaho de Sagazan, accompanied by a choir. The song is Sous le ciel de Paris or Under the Paris Skies, Paris's unofficial anthem. French swimmer Leon Marchand ended the Paris Olympic flames. French President Marcon and IOC President Bach started the ceremony in Stade de France. Then, countries enter the stadium by waving their own flags. Katie Ledecky and Nick Mead enter the arena as the Team USA flag bearers. Team USA athletes came into the stadium being cheered by the crowd. The team wore blue Ralph Lauren clothing from head to toe. The winners of the women's marathon earned their medals. The 45,000 Olympic volunteers were recognized. The track and field icon Allyson Felix has been introduced as the new member of the IOC Athletes' Commission. A golden voyager descended into the arena. The figure is masked in head-to-toe gold. The masked torch bearer came back.
The golden voyager raised the Greek flag to commemorate the birthplace of the Olympic Games. Dancers presented the Olympic rings. Then, a watch party existed. Benjamin Bernheim sang Hymn to Apollo with pianist Alain Roche to exhume the Olympic rings. The rings are raised up. Then, the indie rock band Phoenix performed music in celebration of French artists and their influence on music. Tony Estanguet, the President of the Paris 2024 Olympics congratulated the athletes. He said that most marriage proposals ever took place at an Olympic Games. IOC President Thomas Bach thanked the athletes and called for the world to live in a culture of peace. Then, the Olympic flag was lowered in Paris after the performance of the Olympic anthem. The flag was given to Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, then the IOC President Thomas Bach, and Bach gave it to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. This is to represent the transition of host cities. Mayor Bass was accompanied by gymnast Simone Biles. Simone Biles held the Olympic flag, and the R&B singer H.E.R. sang The Star-Spangled Banner. H.E.R. is one of the most talented artists of our generation who can write, sing, and play instruments. Then, Tom Cruise used a stunt by being lowered by cables from the top to the bottom of the Stade de France via harnesses. Then, Tom Cruise took the flag from Simone Biles and LA Mayor Karen Bass. Tom Cruise (who cheered for gymnastics, swimming, and track and field. He was filming the next chapter of Mission: Impossible in Europe) attached the flag to the back of his motorcycle to drive away.
Later, there was a pre-recorded video of Cruise carrying the flag on a motorcycle to a large plane. He drops down at Los Angeles to place the flag on top of the Hollywood sign. Then, the Hollywood sign was shown and LA artists Red Hot Chili Peppers performed. Dr. Dre, Snoop, and Billie Eilish performed music in Los Angeles too. Venus Williams gave an introduction to the future Los Angeles Olympic Games in 2028. The Paralympics was promoted. Leon Marchand extinguished the flame. The final song of the Paris Olympics was a rendition of Frank Sinatra's My Way, which was done by Paris singer Yseult. The song was composed by French composer Jacques Revaux and French lyricists Gillies Thibaut and Claude Francois. After the song was shown, fireworks erupted around the Stade de France. The 2024 Paris Olympics is officially over. The Paralympic Games will be next in September 2024, the Winter Olympics will take place in 2026 in Salt Lake City, and the Los Angeles Summer Olympics will happen in 2028.
La fin des Jeux olympiques d’été de 2024 s’est terminée par des feux d’artifice, de la musique et des honneurs décernés à bon nombre des plus grands athlètes de la planète. Nous voulons la paix, et nous attendons les futurs Jeux Olympiques de Los Angeles (aux États-Unis d’Amérique) en 2028.
Epilogue
The 2024 Paris Olympics has been historic in many ways. Excellence was shown in many arenas from both USA basketball teams winning gold against France to the 200m victory made by Gabby Thomas showing power and determination. It had the debut of breaking (or breakdancing) as a sport. There has been a massive amount of athletic competition, and many records were broken in various sports too like swimming. It was a time when the opening ceremony was held outside of a stadium for the first time in modern Olympic history. It is important to note that the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics is the first time in history to reach full gender parity on the field of play. That is important as men and women should be paid the same. America topped the medal table for the fourth consecutive time with 40 gold medals and 126 medals in total. China tied with America with gold medals with 40 and second with 91 medals in total. Japan finished third, Australia had fourth, France was fifth, etc. Dominica, Saint Lucia, Cape Verde, and Albania won their first-ever Olympic medals. Botswana and Guatemala won their first-ever gold medals. The Refugee Olympic Team won their first-ever medal, being a gold in boxing. The Paris Olympics had many logistical issues, some water issues, and controversies. Yet, the 2024 Paris Olympics was hugely a success.
The United States of America team won greatly in track and field, swimming, basketball, and other sports. Sha'Charri Richardson achieved her first gold medal which was very inspiring. There has been massive popularity of the Olympics. The ratings of the recent 2024 Paris Olympics soared 82 percent over the Tokyo Games. That is why the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris drew a combined average of 30.6 million viewers. The Paris Olympics Games is the most streamed Olympics of all time. The media giant Comcast on Monday said that its coverage saw a large 23.5 billion minutes of stream time, a 40 percent increase compared to all prior summer and winter Games combined. The network's Spanish language broadcast on Telemundo also saw a 26 percent jump over the same period during the Tokyo Games three years ago. Days ago, the men's basketball gold medal game (when the U.S. defeated France in a 98-87 victory), averaged 20.3 million viewers on NBC and Peacock, making it the most watched gold medal game since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the company of Comcast said. The 2024 Paris Olympics stand as very historic to inspire the world to attempt to see a more peaceful future. We live in a time of massive gun violence, the evil of Trumpism, racism, sexism, xenophobia, political polarization, and other evils. Although, there are a lot of great people in this world helping their neighbors, working in charities, giving hope to people, and doing other outstanding work in changing the world in positive ways. The 2024 Paris Summer Paralympics deserves respect and its due too as promoting human diversity and human dignity strongly. Now, we await the Winter Olympics in 2026 in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.
By Timothy
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