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The 2024 summer Olympic Games, the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, take place in Paris, France.

Paris will be the main host city, but the Games will also take place in 16 cities spread across Metropolitan France and one in Tahiti—an island within the French overseas country and overseas collectivity of French Polynesia—as a subsite.

Having previously hosted in 1900 and 1924, Paris will become the second city (after London) to host the Summer Olympics three times. Paris 2024 will mark the centenary of Paris 1924, be the sixth Olympic games hosted by France (three in summer and three in winter), and the first Olympic Games in France since the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. The event will return to its traditional 4-year Olympiad cycle, as the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo was delayed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Games would be the first of three successive Summer Olympics to use only two official languages (English and French).

The Games will feature the debut of breaking (breakdancing) as an Olympic event.

The preparation for the Games has been marred by the ongoing controversy surrounding the potential participation of Russian and Belarussian athletes.

The Paris Olympics are expected to cost $8.5 billion.

The Grand Slam tournaments, also referred to as majors, are the world's four most important annual professional tennis tournaments. They offer the most ranking points, prize money, public and media attention, the greatest strength and size of field, and the longest matches for men (best of five sets, best of three for the women). The tournaments are overseen by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), but both the ATP and WTA award ranking points based on players' performances in them.

The four Grand Slam tournaments are the Australian Open in January, Roland Garros from late May to early June, Wimbledon in late June to early July, and the US Open in August–September, with each played over two weeks. The Australian and the United States tournaments are played on hard courts, the French on clay, and Wimbledon on grass. Wimbledon is the oldest tournament, founded in 1877, followed by the US in 1881, the French in 1891, and the Australian in 1905, but it was not until 1925 that all four were held as officially sanctioned majors.

The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2024, will be the 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe. Germany will host the tournament, which is scheduled to take place from 14 June to 14 July 2024.
The tournament returns to its usual 4-year cycle, after Euro 2020 was delayed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Italy are the defending champions having won the 2020 tournament.

The Formula One World Championship is the highest class of single-seat auto racing, sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), using the fastest road course racing cars in the world.

The 75th World Championship is scheduled to be contested over a record twenty-four Grands Prix held around the world, from March to December.

Max Verstappen is the reigning Drivers' Champion, while his team, Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT, is the reigning Constructors' Champion.

The 76th FIM MotoGP season comprises 21 Grands Prix, commencing with the Portugal GP in March and concluding in Valencia, Spain in November. Francesco Bagnaia will come into the season the defending world champion.

The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2024, will be the 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe. Germany will host the tournament, which is scheduled to take place from 14 June to 14 July 2024.
The tournament returns to its usual 4-year cycle, after Euro 2020 was delayed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Italy are the defending champions having won the 2020 tournament.

The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2024, will be the 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe. Germany will host the tournament, which is scheduled to take place from 14 June to 14 July 2024.
The tournament returns to its usual 4-year cycle, after Euro 2020 was delayed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Italy are the defending champions having won the 2020 tournament.

The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2024, will be the 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe. Germany will host the tournament, which is scheduled to take place from 14 June to 14 July 2024.
The tournament returns to its usual 4-year cycle, after Euro 2020 was delayed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Italy are the defending champions having won the 2020 tournament.

The three Grand Tours of the UCI World Tour represent the greatest and most historic challenges in world cycling. Each of the classic stage races covers 21 days and thousands of kilometres, from time trials and sprints to gruelling climbs and vertiginous descents.

The 2024 Giro d’Italia route, starting in Turin on May 4 and finishing in Rome on May 26, will feature a challenging course which includes two individual time trials, six mountain finishes and a final-week crescendo in the Dolomites.

For the first time in 50 years, the Tour de France will not see a Champs-Élysées finish, as the Olympic Games are to be held in Paris, and will instead end with a hilly time trial in Nice. For the first time, the Grand Départ is in Italy, with riders setting off from Florence on June 29. The first three stages pass through the provinces of Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna and Lombardy before crossing the border on the fourth stage to Valloire.

The 2024 Tour de France Femmes, the third edition of the Tour, will will not take place immediately after the men's tour due to the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. Instead, it will be held in the short gap between the Olympic Games and the 2024 Summer Paralympics in mid-August. It will have its first Grand Départ outside France — with three stage starts in the Netherlands, starting in Rotterdam.

The 2024 Vuelta a España will start in the Portuguese capital Lisbon and conclude in the Spanish capital, Madrid, covering a distance of 3,265km over 21 stages.

The 2024 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as Euro 2024, will be the 17th edition of the UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international men's football championship of Europe. Germany will host the tournament, which is scheduled to take place from 14 June to 14 July 2024.
The tournament returns to its usual 4-year cycle, after Euro 2020 was delayed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Italy are the defending champions having won the 2020 tournament.

The men's major golf championships are the four most prestigious events in professional golf. The competitions are the Masters Tournament, the U.S. Open, The Open Championship and the PGA Championship, all contested annually.

The Formula One World Championship is the highest class of single-seat auto racing, sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), using the fastest road course racing cars in the world.

The 75th World Championship is scheduled to be contested over a record twenty-four Grands Prix held around the world, from March to December.

Max Verstappen is the reigning Drivers' Champion, while his team, Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT, is the reigning Constructors' Champion.