The beginning of the Olympic Games in Paris are just days away.
There is still time to get clued up on everything that will be going on from 26 July to 11 August.
Here is an A-Z of the Paris 2024 Olympics:
A - Andy Macdonald
Also known as Andy Mac and ‘Rad Dad,’ Andy Macdonald will be the second-oldest British competitor in Paris at 50 years old. The American-born skateboarder qualifies for Team GB through his British father and will make his Olympic debut in Paris. The definition of ‘age is just a number’, Macdonald has been skating since the age of 12 and a professional in the sport since 1994.
B – Breaking
There is only one sport making its debut at Paris 2024 and that is breaking. More commonly known as break dancing, international competitions were first held in the 1990s. In Paris, breakers, who are known as b-boys and b-girls, will compete to music played by a live DJ that they have never heard before.
C - Champs-Élysées
If there is one thing that is guaranteed at this year’s Olympics, it is spectacular scenery. This is no more true than when it comes to the Champs-Élysées. During the Games its role will be more than just a visual spectacle. Although not a venue for any of the events, an Olympic megastore will give visitors the chance to take home a souvenir including a Paris 2024 mascot.
D - Delicious Orie
Super-heavyweight Delicious Orie won gold at the Commonwealth Games in 2022 and European Games in 2023. Orie, 27, was born in Moscow to a Nigerian father and a Russian mother but moved to England aged seven after facing racial prejudice.
E - Equestrian
The three disciplines of jumping, dressage and eventing will feature in Paris, at the Palace of Versailles. Equestrian sports first featured at the modern Olympic Games in Paris in 1900, so being back in the French capital 124 years later will be a full circle moment.
F - French Polynesia
Surfing at the 2024 Summer Olympics is scheduled to take place in Tahiti, French Polynesia, because of the famous big waves on the island making it more suitable than continental Europe. At 9,800 miles from Paris, the French overseas territory in the southern Pacific will break the record for the farthest Olympic medal competition to be held outside the host city.
G – Grand Palais
One of the most recognisable of the Paris 2024 venues, the Grand Palais will host fencing and taekwondo this summer. Built for the 1900 Paris Universal Exhibition, the great hall had never previously been fully restored, but has undergone extensive renovations ahead of hosting two sports at the games
H - Hockey
Team GB will look to add yet another hockey medal to their collection this summer after enjoying a decade of success. Having never even been in an Olympic final prior to 2016, it has been the women’s side that has captured the hearts of fans in recent years, sandwiching a first-ever gold in Rio between bronze medals at London 2012 and Tokyo 2020. Meanwhile, the men’s team are chasing a first medal since they won gold at Seoul 1988.
I - Imogen Grant and Emily Craig
Having missed out on an Olympic medal by one-hundredth of a second in Tokyo, rower Imogen Grant is back for more in Paris. This time partnering Emily Craig, the two have been on a stunning unbeaten run in the women’s lightweight double sculls claiming European and world crowns.
J - Judo
One of Team GB’s most successful sports, surprisingly Great Britain have never won an Olympic gold medal in judo. Team GB do boast a haul of eight silvers and 12 bronzes since 1972, including Chelsie Giles’ bronze at Tokyo 2020 - the team's most recent Olympic medal and the first of that Games.
K - Katarina Johnson-Thompson
When any Brit hears the letter ‘K’ in relation to the Olympics, you automatically expect to hear it followed by ‘J’ and ‘T’. Preparing to make her fourth Olympic appearance this summer, Katarina Johnson-Thompson has already written herself into Team GB folklore going into Paris. The Liverpudlian burst onto the scene at London 2012 aged just 19, before going on to appear in Rio and Tokyo and has won two world titles.
L - Les Invalides
Nestled in the heart of Paris, Les Invalides will marry history, culture and high-level sport through hosting archery at Paris 2024. Initially built as a military hospital and retirement home for war veterans, the Hôtel des Invalides houses a number of museums and monuments relating to France's military history, including the tomb of Napoleon I.
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M - Marseille
Team GB's 14-strong squad of sailors will compete for medals on the shores of the Mediterranean, with the sailing events of the Paris Games taking place in Marseille. The port provides relatively constant winds and harbours a strong expertise in hosting and organising boat-related events.
N - Neah Evans
Daughter of fellow Team GB alumni, Ros Evans, who represented Great Britain at the 1984 Winter Olympics in cross-country skiing, Neah Evans worked as a vet before committing to cycling full-time at the age of 27 in 2017.
At Tokyo 2020, Evans picked up the first Olympic medal of her career, winning silver in the team pursuit alongside Laura Kenny, Katie Archibald, Josie Knight and Elinor Barker.
O – Omens
Fear not, the omens are good – Britons have traditionally excelled when the Games head to Paris. Take Harold Abrahams, for instance, who won 100m individual gold and relay silver in the French capital in 1924 and lives on through the film ‘Chariots of Fire.’ The first Games held in Paris, in 1900, saw Great Britain finish third in the medal table, while triathletes Alex Yee and Beth Potter both claimed gold at last year’s Paris Test events.
P – Peaty Time
The first British swimmer to retain their Olympic title, Adam Peaty, has completed a comeback for the ages to make the Paris 2024 starting blocks. The world record holder and three-time Olympic champion has overcome a combination of injury and a break for mental health reasons to defend his 100m breaststroke crown. Do so, and he will match Michael Phelps by becoming only the second man to win gold in the same swimming event at three successive Olympics.
Q – Quadruple sculls
Team GB’s rowers head to the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium in fine fettle and the men’s and women’s quad are definitely ones to watch. Lauren Henry, Hannah Scott, Lola Anderson and Georgina Brayshaw added European gold to their world title in April, while the returning Tom Barras was part of the men’s boat which won a first-ever Olympic medal in the discipline in Tokyo.
R – Rings
The five interlaced rings are the symbol of the Olympics and one that is instantly recognisable worldwide. According to the Olympic charter, the symbol ‘expresses the activity of the Olympic Movement and represents the union of the five continents and the meeting of athletes from throughout the world at the Olympic Games.’
S - Seine
The Opening Ceremony at Paris 2024 is going to be something we have never seen before, taking place on the River Seine as opposed to in a stadium. The traditional parade of nations will be conducted as a boat parade down the Seine from Pont d’Austerlitz to Pont d’Ièna.
T - Tom Daley
It is hard to believe that the fresh-faced 14-year-old who first captured the imagination in Beijing in 2008 is now 30 and preparing for his fifth Olympics. That is the case for Tom Daley who heads to Paris to compete alongside Noah Williams in the 10m synchro. It is the event in which he won a first Olympic gold in Tokyo three years ago, and after his son Robbie said he wanted to see his dad compete at the Olympics, Daley is back for more.
U - Urban Project
Paris 2024 will mark the first time that every urban sport will be hosted in the same venue, as Place de la Concorde will host all five Olympic urban disciplines. Basketball 3x3, BMX freestyle, skateboarding street and park, and the newly-introduced breaking will all take place in the colourful, open-air stage.
V- Versailles
The Palais de Versailles is among the most spectacular royal residences in the world, as well as being one of the most popular tourist attractions on the planet. At Paris 2024, it will be the home of horse events, with both equestrian and modern pentathlon taking place in its grounds.
W – Weightlifting
Emily Campbell made history at Tokyo 2020 as the first British woman to ever win an Olympic medal in weightlifting. Campbell is back for Paris 2024 and will be Team GB’s only representative in the sport. She is in fine form having defended her European crown for a third time earlier this year.
X – X Games
The competition dedicated to action sports across both winter and summer sports, X Games serves as an important indicator of medal chances at the Olympics. That is good news for skateboarder Sky Brown who has twice won the Women's Skateboard Park in 2021 and 2022.
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The Stade Yves-du-Manoir will become the only venue to have hosted events at both the Paris 1924 and @Paris2024 Olympics.
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Y – Yves-du-Manoir Stadium
The only venue to have been used at a previous Olympic Games, Yves-du-Manoir Stadium will host the hockey at Paris 2024. At the 1924 Games, the venue, which is named after a French rugby player, hosted the opening ceremony and the athletics. The stadium sits in the north west of Paris in Colombes and is nearest La Defense Arena.
Z - Zharnel Hughes
One of only three Team GB athletes at Paris with a first name beginning with Z, Zharnel Hughes is a certified sprint star. The Anguillan-born competitor is featured in the Netflix documentary Sprint on the world’s fastest humans. He holds the British 100m and 200m record and won a first individual world medal with bronze in Budapest.