Three days until the start, the world has its eyes on the “Paris 2024” Olympic Games

With only 3 days to go until the opening ceremony, Olympic fever for “Paris 2024” is sweeping the whole world.

10,714 athletes from 206 countries will compete in 32 sports across a total of 329 events, with the competition officially opening on Friday evening with a grand ceremony along the River Seine.parisMESSAGE FROM BACH – IOC President Thomas Bach delivered a speech in Paris yesterday before a delegation of athletes gathered in the Olympic village: “You, Olympic athletes, will show us what the world would be like if we all lived in the same Olympic spirit of peaceful coexistence. You will compete against one another, but at the same time, you are living peacefully together under one roof here in the Olympic village. You are respecting the same rules and, most importantly, respecting one another. In this way, you are sending the world a strong message of peace from Paris,” Bach said, among other things.

PRESIDENT MACRON – A few days before the start of the “Paris 2024” Olympic Games, the Olympic village was also visited by French President Emmanuel Macron. The area, which covers more than 54 hectares, also includes the police station and fire station set up inside the village, with these two facilities officially inaugurated yesterday morning by Macron. “We are proud of the extensive preparatory work and are ready to guarantee security throughout the Games. More than 250,000 women and men are sacrificing the time they spend with their families; we have been working for years on this event. This work will transform our region, and the infrastructure will remain as a legacy. This village will become a real neighborhood,” Macron said. Also present were Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin and Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra.

PLATINI SPARKS CONTROVERSY – Meanwhile, Michel Platini surprised everyone with his statement in an interview with “Midi Libre,” on the eve of the Olympic Games to be held in Paris: “I will not watch the football matches at ‘Paris 2024.’ The French Olympic team does not interest me, because football is not an Olympic sport.” For the former UEFA president, football was included in the Olympics solely for reasons of self-interest, since it fills stadiums.

MEDAL HISTORY – On the eve of the start of “Paris 2024,” we present the top ten countries with the most wins in the history of the Olympic Games. The rankings are led by the United States of America, which has won a total of 2,636 medals, more than double the number of the runner-up, the former Soviet Union, which has 1,010 medals in total. As for the most successful athletes in the history of the Olympic Games, the men's record is held by legendary American swimmer Michael Phelps, with 28 medals between 2004 and 2016. Phelps has 23 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals. The women's record is held by gymnastics icon Larisa Latynina, who won 18 medals for the Soviet Union between 1956 and 1964: 9 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze.