Paris2024

Breaking is the only sport making its debut at Paris 2024. At the Paris 2024 Games, the breaking competition will comprise two events – one for men and one for women – where 16 B-Boys and 16 B-Girls will go face to face in solo battles. Athletes will use a…

Did you know? The Olympic ring colors represent every national flag. When Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the modern Olympics, he specifically chose the colors (blue, green, yellow, black, and red), along with white, to include colors from all national flags in existence at that time. 🗼 #Paris2024 🇫🇷 #GSC360 🌐 #Sportstr…

Did you know? The 2024 Summer Olympic Games will be held from Friday 26 July 2024 to Sunday 11 August 2024. However, the competitions for football and rugby will begin on 24 July and the handball tournament on the 25th. In a little over three weeks, 329 events in 32…

Did you know? The modern Olympics have been canceled three times. The Games were called off due to World War I (Berlin 1916) and World War II (Tokyo 1940 and London 1944). 🗼 #Paris2024 🇫🇷 #GSC360 🌐 #Sportstr…

🏀🗣️ “Representing my country is like the pinnacle for me,” Melbourne said, as reported by Kareem Copeland of The Washington Post. “So it’s a dream come true. When it actually officially gets confirmed, it’s just a whole ’nother feeling. I was just so happy. I FaceTimed my mom and…

A new scoring system and the absence of Russia have created a seismic shift in artistic swimming, promising a more exciting show at the 2024 Paris Olympics and anticipation that, for the first time in a long time, gold is virtually anyone's for the taking 🗼 #Paris2024 🇫🇷 #GSC360 🌐 #Sportstr…

Did you know? The only country to host the Summer Olympics four times is the United States. The Summer Games took place in St. Louis (1904), Los Angeles (1932 and 1984), and Atlanta (1996). The city of Los Angeles will host the Games for the third time in 2028. 🗼 #Paris2024…

🏀 Greece, Spain, Brazil and Puerto Rico have completed the 12-team field in men's basketball for the Paris Olympics after winning the finals of their respective qualifiers on Sunday. Joining hosts France, United States, Canada, Australia, South Sudan, Japan, Serbia and Germany. 🗼 #Paris2024 🇫🇷 #GSC360 🌐 #Sportstr…

Did you know? The modern Olympics have been hosted by 23 countries. Olympic host nations include Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, South Korea, United Kingdom, United States, and Yugoslavia 🗼 #Paris2024 🇫🇷 #GSC360 🌐 #Sportstr…

Paris 1924: Celebrating a century of change Held 24 years after Paris hosted the Games of the II Olympiad in 1900 – part of the International Universal Exhibition – the 1924 Games marked the last edition under the presidency of Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games. 🗼 #Paris2024 🇫🇷 #GSC360…

Did you know? The first modern Olympics took place in Athens, Greece. Baron Pierre de Coubertin revived the games in 1896, calling this new event the “modern Olympics”—and it’s still going strong today 🗼 #Paris2024 🇫🇷 #GSC360 🌐 #Sportstr.…

Russian wrestlers invited to compete at the Paris Olympics as neutral athletes will not take part after some of the leading wrestlers were left off the invitation list, the Russian Wrestling Federation said on Saturday 🗼 #Paris2024 🇫🇷 #GSC360 🌐 #Sportstr…

Did you know? The Ancient Olympic Games ended in A.D. 393. Due to the religious elements incorporated into the celebrations, Emperor Theodosius I, a Roman ruler, considered the Olympics a pagan festival and banned them. 🗼 #Paris2024 🇫🇷 #GSC360 🌐 #Sportstr…

Did you know? The word “gymnasium” is derived from the Greek root “gymnos,” which means nude. Some early Olympians competed nude! 🗼 #Paris2024 🇫🇷 #GSC360 🌐 #Sportstr…

Emmanuel Macron promises to swim in river Seine to prove it’s clean enough 🗼 #Paris2024 🇫🇷 #GSC360 🌐 #Sportstr…

Australian Boomers have left Portland Trail Blazers wing Matisse Thybulle off their Paris 2024 Olympics squad. However, fellow Blazer Duop Reath will make the trip to France to help the Boomers win gold. 🗼 #Paris2024 🇫🇷 #GSC360 🌐 #Sportstr…

FBI launches criminal investigation into 23 Chinese swimmers for doping Eleven of the swimmers who were allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympics are also set to compete in Paris at the end of July. 🗼 #Paris2024 🇫🇷 #GSC360 🌐 #Sportstr…