Men also participate in ‘private’ Artistic Swimming, using Paris landmarks as stadiums

Beach volleyball court built in the park Taekwondo and fencing held at the former World’s Fair site The Champ de Mars park in front of the Eiffel Tower will be transformed into a beach volleyball court during the Paris Olympics (top photo). Taekwondo and fencing matches will be held at the Grand Palais, built for the 1900 Paris World’s Fair.

The slogan of the Paris Olympics, which opens on July 26 (local time), is ‘Games wide open.’ The Paris Olympic Organizing Committee said, “Just like the slogan of the Games, we will welcome everyone from all over the world to our wide open stadium.”

The opening ceremony was exceptional. For the first time in the 128-year history of the modern Olympics, the opening ceremony will be held outdoors rather than in a stadium. 10,500 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees (NOC) will participate in a 6km ‘water march’ along the Seine River on 116 boats. The closing ceremony on August 11 will also be held at Trocadero Square, where the Eiffel Tower can be seen at a glance.

Paris’s landmarks are transformed into stadiums. Champ de Mars Park (beach volleyball) overlooking the Eiffel Tower, the Palace of Versailles (horseback riding), which was listed as France’s first UNESCO cultural heritage site in 1979, the Grand Palais (taekwondo, fencing) built for the 1900 World’s Fair, and Napoleon’s tomb. The square in front of Les Invalides (archery) is used as a stadium. 메이저사이트

The number of athletes participating in this event will be the first time in Olympic history that gender equality has been achieved. According to the organizing committee, 5,250 male and female athletes will compete in this event. The first time female athletes competed in the Olympics was in the 2nd Paris Olympics held in 1900. At that time, only 22 female athletes out of approximately 1,000 total participants were women. This is the first time in 124 years that 100% gender equality has been achieved in the same venue. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has increased the number of mixed events in which men and women compete as one team, thereby increasing the proportion of female athletes.

Previously, the men’s marathon was held on the closing day and decorated the finale of the event, but in the Paris Olympics, the women’s marathon will be held on the closing ceremony day. For the first time, male athletes will compete in artistic swimming, a previously ‘banned’ event. Ordinary people can also become ‘Olympians’. The organizing committee has decided to open the course that the athletes ran to masters marathoners after the marathon. The

Paris Olympics is also a competition without air conditioning. The organizing committee of the Games did not install air conditioning in the athletes’ village, aiming for the most eco-friendly Games ever. In response, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and others decided to install their own portable air conditioners. Korea will provide cooling jackets and cooling sheets using special refrigerants to its athletes.

There are a total of 329 gold medals at stake in 32 sports at the Paris Olympics. Compared to the 33 events and 339 events at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, the number of events and gold medals decreased by 1. Breaking was newly included as an official sport, and baseball, softball, and karate, which were official events during the Tokyo Games, were excluded. It has been 64 years since the 1960 Rome Games that there were fewer gold medals than in the previous competition. 토토사이트