Paris 2024 Olympics: When will the next Summer Games take place?
Paris will host the next year’s Olympics. It will be the third time that the French capital has hosted the Summer Games, but the most recent edition in the city was exactly 100 years ago, in 1924.
The International Olympic Committee has recommended that Russian and Belarusian athletes should be able to take part in qualifying for the Games. However, the IOC has not yet made a final decision on whether both nations will be allowed to compete at the Games themselves. IOC president Thomas Bach said only individual, neutral athletes from those countries should be allowed to compete – not teams.
The IOC’s position is at odds with World Athletics, whose president Lord Coe said Russian and Belarusian athletes would remain banned from its World Series events “for the foreseeable future”.
The 33rd Summer Olympic Games – or formally, the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad – will run from Friday July 26, 2024 until Sunday August 11. As is tradition, the official Opening Ceremony will take place on Friday July 26.
Over 10,000 athletes from 206 nations are expected to take part across 329 events, representing more than 28 sports.
By Jeremy Wilson
French police have raided the headquarters of the organisers of next year’s Paris Olympics as part of an investigation into suspected corruption.
A spokesperson for Paris 24 confirmed that a police search was ongoing on the morning of 20 June at their headquarters in Saint Denis and said that they were “cooperating fully with the investigators to facilitate their investigations”.
The French Police have made no comment but the national financial prosecutor’s office (PNF) have told French media that the Paris 2024 headquarters were raided as part of a preliminary investigation launched in 2017 into contracts made by the organising committee.
The headquarters of Solideo, the public body responsible for delivering Olympic and Paralympic infrastructure, was also being searched as part of a preliminary investigation dating back to 2022, the PNF added.
The French anti-corruption agency (AFA) had previously highlighted “risks affecting probity” and “potential conflicts of interests” in regard to the Olympics which it warned could impinge on the “whiter than whiter” image of the Games.
The raids come at a time when French sport has been impacted by significant separate administrative upheaval and controversies. Brigitte Henriques resigned as the president of France’s National Olympic Committee in May, prompting the International Olympic Committee to issue a statement in May that called on “everybody to take responsibility so that the internal arguments that have affected the CNOSF (the French National Olympic and Sports Committee) these past few months cease”.
Henriques’ successor has not yet been named. Noel Le Graet and Bernard Laporte, respectively the presidents of the French football and rugby federations also stepped down earlier this year. Le Graet had been accused of sexual harassment, which he denies, and Laporte was convicted of corruption.
It all follows the organisational chaos at the Champions League final in Paris last year. Le Graet denied the allegations before his departure.
