Category: 2024 Summer Olympic Games

News, Insight and Analysis from Paris at the 2024 Olympic Summer Games.

2024 Olympic Games Closing Ceremony
The end of the dramatic presentation of the Olympic rings during the Closing Ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Summer Games. Photo by Jason Gewirtz

Paris Tourism Office Releases Preliminary Olympic Report

Paris je t’aime, the city’s tourism bureau, released its preliminary report on Olympic Summer Games impact saying the United States was the leading international market during the competition. The report says the United States had 230,000 tourists visit Paris during the Games, nearly double the second-leading country in Germany (130,000). The United Kingdom was third […]

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The Olympic rings are seen on the Eiffel Tower, Sunday, July 14, 2024, in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

2024 Summer Olympics in Review

SportsTravel was on location from the Olympic Summer Games focusing not only on the competition but giving readers a chance to learn more about what’s going on behind the scenes. Here is a comprehensive guide with facts about the world’s most prestigious sporting event with information, schedules and links to our content. You can always […]

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Casey Wasserman and Karen Bass discuss plans for the Los Angeles Olympic Summer Games in 2928. Photo by Jason Gewirtz

LA28 Plans for ‘No Car’ Games and More

PARIS — The success of the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris has put Los Angeles in the spotlight as the LA28 organizing committee switches fully into operations mode. At a press conference to close the Paris Games, LA28 Chairman Casey Wasserman and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass outlined some of their own ambitious plans […]

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Mission Viejo signing
Members of the Netherlands Olympic Committee and the city of Mission Viejo sign a partnership agreement for training sites leading up to 2028. Photo by Jason Gewirtz

A Marriage Made in Orange: Mission Viejo and the Dutch Olympic Team

PARIS — Events like the Olympic Games are significant boons to the host city. But lost in the story of the host city for mega sporting events is the opportunity for smaller destinations to get their own piece of the action. This week in Paris, an unlikely partnership formed between the Netherlands Olympic Committee and […]

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Paris 2024 Closing Ceremony
Fireworks light up the Stade de France during the Closing Ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Summer Games. Photo by Jason Gewirtz

Closing Ceremony Marks Handoff to LA28

An Olympic Summer Games in Paris hailed as a success operationally and otherwise came to an end with a Closing Ceremony that put LA28 on the clock as it enters its next phase leading to the Los Angeles Olympic and Paralympic Games. And the final act in Paris had several nods to the Hollywood-style approach […]

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Fencing Palais
Fencing at the Grand Palais was one of the most popular fan experiences in the first week of the Olympic Summer Games in Paris. Photo by Matt Traub/SportsTravel

2024 Olympics: Grades for the Games

With the Olympic movement at an inflection point in the minds of many experts, the 2024 Summer Games in Paris were vital for the International Olympic Committee to prove to the world that it is still relevant and attractive for major worldwide cities to have an interest in hosting. Based on SportsTravel’s experience in Paris […]

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The human Zamboni crew at beach volleyball. Photo by Jason Gewirtz

An American in Paris: Observations from a Memorable Olympic Games

Throughout SportsTravel‘s time in Paris for the Olympic Summer Games, we have reported on behind-the-scenes observations about how the event is organized. For previous takes: Eiffel Tower Shines Above All Olympic Venues Being the Scenes at the Summer Games Here is our final installment of what we saw, heard and felt during a memorable Olympic […]

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Eiffel Tower stadium
Ambitious plans for Paris 2024 included the stunning temporary stadium at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. Photo by Jason Gewirtz

Paris 2024 Credits Early Engagement for Success of Olympics

PARIS — From the outset, Paris 2024’s plans for the Olympic Summer Games was ambitious. It began with a deconstructed Opening Ceremony along the Seine and it is ending with other firsts, including a public marathon on the official Olympic course near the end. In between, organizing committee leaders have been pleased with how things […]

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Q&A: USA Swimming CEO Tim Hinchey on the Paris Olympics

PARIS — The last time I had the chance to interview USA Swimming President and Chief Executive Officer Tim Hinchey in person, it was during eight hours of quarantine together at Narita Airport in Tokyo for the 2020 Olympic Summer Games. Three years after those pandemic-era Games, I had the opportunity to catch up with […]

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Fans enter the Paris metro stop near Roland Garros after a soccer match at the Parc des Princes to get to the next Olympic event on their schedules. Photo by Matt Traub/SportsTravel

Getting Around The Olympics: Paris Metro System Takes Fans to Venues

The venues that host events throughout the 2024 Olympic Summer Games in Paris have gotten so much attention — one perhaps that may not be getting as much attention is how the millions of people who bought tickets have been getting there. The Paris Metro has over 300 lines and is second busiest metro system […]

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