India will be the second country to form the largest team of athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Most of the athletes are from Haryana. India will be representing 117 athletes at the Olympic Games in 2024.
The Summer Olympics 2024 start on Friday, July 26, 2024. The opening ceremony will be held in Paris on the River Seine with different countries taking part in it, along with India. The whole summer Olympics will be televised live all over the world.
The Paris Olympics 2024 will start on July 26, 2024, and end on August 11, 2024. It will be an 18-day event, with almost 206 countries participating in different games. The athletes will showcase their talents and represent their country with pride.
Every year, the opening ceremonies are held inside the stadium, but for the first time in history since 1992, this year they will be held outside the stadium. This year, the opening ceremony will take place along the Seine River in Paris, with more than 10,000 athletes travelling on boats for the traditional parade. Above 100 boats are assigned to carry these athletes for the parade to some iconic destination in Paris.
The Paris Summer Olympics 2024 will start at 11:00 PM (Indian Standard Time) in India. The audience and fans can watch the live telecast on different sports channels, like Sports 18 1 SD, Sports 18 1 HD TV, etc. And it will also be available at the Jio cinema for free.
117 athletes are participating in the Summer Olympics of 2024. There are 70 males and 47 females competing in this event. Haryana, with 24 athletes, has the most athletes taking part in the Paris Summer Olympics 2024, with Punjab being the second. India will be taking part in 16 different sports in the Paris Summer Olympics in 2024.
Badminton, rowing, shooting, tennis, table tennis, boxing, hockey, archery, swimming, athletics, golf, sailing, judo, and some other games will be held in the summer Olympics.
India Has set its goal to enhance their last performance in the Tokyo Olympic 2020. Our country secured a total of 7 medals in the last Olympic games.
Bharat in Paris
A campaign was launched by the IOA (Indian Olympic Association) to promote awareness of sports across the country ahead of the Paris Summer Olympics.
Anurag Singh Thakur, the union sports minister of India, started a small marathon at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in New Delhi to flag off the ‘Bharat in Paris ‘campaign.
The Paris Summer Olympics 2024 have given athletes the opportunity to showcase their gameplay. India plans on giving its best and bringing more medals to the nation than the last Tokyo Olympic Games 2020. In the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020, 124 athletes from India participated and showcased their talent. Niraj Chopra won the historic gold medal in the men’s javelin throw.
