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PARIS 2024 OLYMPIC GAMES

ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE – IOC
• Mr. Pierre de Coubertin: Father of the Modern Olympic Games
• Established on 23rd June 1894
• Headquarters – Lausanne, Switzerland

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• President – Mr. Thomas Bach
• Olympic Motto: Faster, Higher, Stronger – Together
Summer Olympic Games
• 1896 - Athens, Greece
• 2020 - Tokyo, Japan
• 2024 - Paris, France
• 2028 - Los Angeles, United States
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2032 - Brisbane, Australia
Winter Olympic Games
• 1924 - Chamonix, France
• 2022 - Beijing, China
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2026 - Milan – Cortina, Italy
2030 - French Alps, France
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• 2034 - Salt Lake City, United States
France hosted the Olympic Games on Six occasions, including the 2024 Sum-
mer Olympics.
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• Summer Olympic Games – 3 times

• Winter Olympic Games – 3 times
Olympics Hosted by France
• 1900 - Summer Olympics – Paris
• 1924 - Summer Olympics – Paris
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• 2024 - Summer Olympics – Paris
• 1924 - Winter Olympics – Chamonix
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• 1968 - Winter Olympics – Grenoble

• 1992 - Winter Olympics – Albertville
• 2030 - Winter Olympics - French Alps*
• London and Paris claim the top spot for having hosted the Olympic Games thrice
• There is a tie for the second spot between three cities, all of which have hosted
the Olympics twice.
• Athens - 1896 & 2004
• Tokyo - 1964 & 2020
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• Los Angeles - 1932 & 1984
• The United States has hosted or been awarded a total of Eight Olympic Games
more than any other country, followed by France with Seven & Japan with Four
editions.
• Since the first Modern Olympic Games opened in 1896, the international sports
competition has only been canceled Thrice.
Cancelled Editions – Olympics
• 1916 - Summer Olympics - Berlin, Germany
• 1940 - Summer Olympics - Tokyo, Japan
• 1944 - Summer Olympics - London, UK
Olympic Rings
• The Olympic Rings were publicly presented for the first time in 1913.
• In the centre of a white background, five rings interlaced: Blue, Yellow, Black,
Green, and Red
• The Olympic Flag was created for the Olympic Jubilee Congress in 1914 in Paris
in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Olympic Movement.
• The first official appearance of the five-ring symbol was in 1920 at the Antwerp
Olympic Games, where it was featured on the Olympic flag.

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• The Olympic Symbol consists of five interlaced rings of equal dimensions, used
alone, in one or in five different colours. When used in its five-colour version,
these colours shall be, from left to right, Blue, Yellow, Black, Green, and Red.
The rings are interlaced from left to right; the Blue, Black, and Red rings are at
the top, and the Yellow and Green at the bottom.
• Three values of Olympism are Excellence, Respect, and Friendship.
Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Facts & Figures
• Edition – XXXIII
• Host City - Paris, France
• Mascot–Olympic Phryges
• Motto - Games Wide Open
• Schedule - 26th July – 11th August, 2024

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• Participated Nations - Over 200 NOCs + EOR & AIN
• Competition Venues – 35
• Sports – 32
• Medal Events – 329
• Athletes - Around 10,500
• Budget - Approx $8.87 Billion

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Four new sports have been added to the program for the Paris Olympic Games

• Sports Climbing
• Skateboarding
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French President Emmanuel Macron formally opened the 2024 Paris Olympic
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Games
• Teddy Riner and Marie-José Pérec light the Paris 2024 Olympic cauldron
• Approximately 5,084 medals were produced by the Monnaie de Paris, and de-
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signed by Chaumet, a luxury jewellery firm.

Paris 2024 Olympic Games - Medal Table
Rank – Country – Gold – Silver – Bronze – Total
• 1 – USA – 40 – 44 – 42 – 126
• 2 – China – 40 – 27 – 24 – 91
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• 3 – Japan – 20 – 12 – 13 – 45
• 71 – India – 0 – 1 – 5 – 6
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• The US topped the medal table for the 4th consecutive Summer Games and 19th
time overall, with 40 gold and 126 total medals.
Four National Olympic Committees - NOC won their first-ever gold medals at
Paris 2024:
• Botswana
• Dominica
• Guatemala
• Saint Lucia
• Arisa Trew (14) of Australia, is the youngest medallist at the 2024 Paris Olympic
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Games, in a Skateboarding Park
• Laura Kraut (58) of the US is the oldest medallist at the 2024 Paris Olympic
Games, in the Equestrian team Jumping event.
• Georgia’s Nino Salukvadze broke new ground by competing in the 10th consecutive
Olympic Games; a run stretching back to the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.
• At the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the athlete with the most medals [Six] won
was Yefei Zhang [1 Silver & 5 Bronze]
• French swimmer Marchand Leon won 4 Gold medals in the Paris 2024 Olympic
Games. He also won 1 Bronze medal.
INDIA @ PARIS OLYMPICS 2024
• Paris 2024 Olympic Games: India finishes 71st ; 38th in terms of overall medals won
• Flag bearers of India at Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: Sharath Kamal and
PV Sindhu
• Flag bearer of India at Paris Olympics Closing Ceremony: PR Sreejesh and Manu Bhaker
• A total of 117 athletes, across 16 sporting categories, comprising 70 men and 47
women represented India’s Olympic contingent for the Paris Olympics 2024.
• Tennis star Rohan Bopanna at 44 was the oldest athlete to represent India at
Paris 2024 while swimmer DhinidhiDesinghu at 14 was the youngest competitor.

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India @ Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Rank – Gold – Silver – Bronze – Total
• 71 – 0 – 1 – 5 – 6
Medal Winners @ Paris Olympic Games 2024
Silver – 1
• Neeraj Chopra
Bronze – 5
• Manu Bhaker
• Swapnil Kusale
• Aman Sehrawat
• Air Pistol Mixed Team
• Men’s Hockey Team

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Neeraj Chopra wins silver as Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem shatters Olympic Record
to claim stunning gold
• Arshad Nadeem created a new Olympic record by throwing the javelin at a dis-
tance of 92.97m (breaking the previous Olympic record of 90.57 meters which was
held by Norwegian Andreas Thorkildsen, who achieved it at the 2008 Beijing
Olympics) and winning gold for it; and Neeraj Chopra won a silver for throwing at

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a distance of 89.45m at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
In an earlier edition i.e., in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, He won the gold
medal in men’s javelin throw with a best attempt of 87.58m.
• He was the first track and field athlete from independent India to win an Olympic

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Norman Pritchard was the first Indian athlete to win an Olympic medal.
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• Norman Pritchard had won two silver medals in athletics at the Paris Summer
Olympics in 1900.
• Silver - 200m Hurdles
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• Silver - 200m Sprinting

Paris 2024: Manu Bhaker wins Bronze; becomes first Indian woman to win
Shooting medal at Olympics
• Manu Bhaker won the bronze in the women’s 10m air pistol event at Paris 2024
and created history by becoming the first Indian woman to win an Olympic shoot-
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• Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore won India’s first Olympic medal in shooting with a
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silver at Athens 2004 in the men’s double trap.

• Abhinav Bindra won India’s only gold medal in shooting in the men’s 10m air rifle
at Beijing 2008.
• Vijay Kumar and Gagan Narang won silver and bronze, respectively, at the Lon-
don 2012 Games.
• Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh won historic Bronze in the 10m Air Pistol Mixed
Team Event at the Paris Olympics 2024
In the history of Independent India, Manu Bhaker became the first Indian to
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win 2 medals in a single edition of the Olympics
• In the Paris Olympics, Manu Bhaker and Sarabjot Singh clinched a historic bronze
medal in the 10m air pistol mixed team shooting event.
• Manu Bhaker became the first athlete in the history of independent India to win
two medals in a single Olympics edition.
Paris 2024 Olympics shooting: Swapnil Kusale wins bronze medal in 50m Rifle 3P
• Indian shooter Swapnil Kusale won the bronze medal in the men’s 50m Rifle 3
positions final at the Paris 2024 Olympics Shooting competition.
• This was India’s first-ever Olympic shooting medal in the 50m 3P and the third
medal in Rifle shooting after Abhinav Bindra’s gold in men’s 10m air rifle at
Beijing 2008 and Gagan Narang’s bronze in the same event at London 2012.
• Overall, this was India’s 7th Olympic Medal in Shooting.
Paris 2024 Wrestling: Aman Sehrawat wins Bronze, and becomes India’s young-
est Olympic medal winner
• Aman Sehrawat won the Bronze in the men’s freestyle 57kg event at the Paris
2024 Olympics Wrestling to become India’s youngest medal winner at the Sum-
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• At the age of 21 years and 24 days, Aman Sehrawat bettered PV Sindhu’s record
of 21 years, one month, and 14 days when she bagged the silver medal at the Rio
2016 Olympics.
India wins Bronze medal in Men’s Hockey in Paris 2024 Olympic Games, de-
feats Spain 2-1
• India defeated Spain 2-1 in the men’s hockey bronze medal match at Paris 2024.
• The victory marks India’s 13th Olympic medal in Hockey, fourth bronze, and sec-
ond consecutive bronze after winning one at Tokyo 2020.
• Captain - Harmanpreet Singh
• In 1928, the Men’s Hockey team won its first Olympic Medal.
India Men’s Hockey Team @ Olympics
Gold – Silver – Bronze – Total

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• 8 – 1 – 4 – 13
To date, India has won a total of 41 Olympic medals.
• Gold – 10, Silver – 10 and Bronze – 21
• The nation’s Olympic journey began with Norman Pritchard’s two silver medals at
Paris 1900.
• KD Jadhav earned India’s first individual medal as an independent nation with a
wrestling bronze at Helsinki in 1952.
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Karnam Malleswari became the first Indian woman to win an Olympic medal with
her weightlifting bronze at Sydney 2000.
Abhinav Bindra was the first Indian to win an individual Olympic gold medal with
his shooting triumph at Beijing 2008, a feat that remained unmatched until
Neeraj Chopra’s javelin gold at Tokyo 2020.
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Men’s hockey has been the most successful sport for India, with 13 medals, in-
cluding eight golds, followed by wrestling with eight medals.
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• India’s best-ever Olympic performance came at Tokyo 2020, where the nation won
seven medals, including one gold.
PARIS 2024 PARALYMPIC GAMES
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Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

• Host City - Paris, France
• Mascot – Paralympic Phryge
• Motto - Games Wide Open
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• Schedule - 28th August – 8th September, 2024
Paris 2024 Paralympic Games - Medal Table
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Rank – Country – Gold – Silver – Bronze – Total

• 1 – China – 94 – 76 – 50 – 220
• 2 - Great Britain – 49 – 44 – 31 – 124
• 3 – USA – 36 – 42 – 27 – 105
• 18 – India – 7 – 9 – 13 – 29
Paris 2024 Paralympic Games: India finishes 18th on the overall medal table
with 29 medals
• In 1960, the first official Paralympic Games took place in Rome.
• India first participated in the 1968 Summer Paralympics.
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• India’s first medal in Paralympics came in 1972, with Murlikant Petkar winning a
gold medal in Swimming.
• India achieved its most successful performance in Paralympic history at the Paris
2024 Games, securing a total of 29 medals - 7 gold, 9 silver, and 13 bronze.
• This achievement surpasses the 19-medal haul from Tokyo 2020, which included
five golds.
Medals @ Paris Paralympic Games 2024
• Gold – 7
• Silver – 9
• Bronze – 13
Gold Medal winners at the Paris 2024 Paralympics
• Avani Lekhara – Shooting
• Nitesh Kumar – Badminton
• Sumit Antil - Athletics - Javelin Throw
• Harvinder Singh – Archery
• Dharambir - Athletics – Club throw
• Praveen Kumar - Athletics – High Jump
• Navdeep Singh - Athletics- Javelin Throw