Question
Download Solution PDFThe Olympic Games - 2024 will be hosted by _______.
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is France.
Key Points
- The 2024 Olympic Games are hosted by France's capital, Paris, and the 2028 US city of Los Angeles.
- Breaking, the official name for competitive breakdancing, will become an Olympic sport for the first time at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
- The athletic style of dance form emerged in the United States in the 1970s.
- Breakdancing is among 4 sports that have got the green light to be part of the Paris Olympic Games in 2024.
- Surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing were also approved for Paris 2024, but all three events will also be a part of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
- The move comes after the International Olympic Committee's new rule which allows host cities to pick and propose new games that are popular in the region.
- The Paris 2024 games will be fully gender equal with 50% female and male participation, as compared with 48.8% female participation in the Tokyo games.
Additional Information
- In ancient times it was organized in 1896 in Athens, the capital of Greece.
- It was named Olympic because of the sport played on Mount Olympia.
- Pierre de Kuvarthen is considered the father of the modern Olympic Games.
- The International Olympic Committee was founded in 1894 by Pierre de Coubertin. It is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland.
- The Olympic Games motto is "Citius-Altius-Fortius".
- The five rings on the Olympic emblem are of five colors, red, blue, green, yellow, and black.
- These rings represent five continents. (North and South America is considered a continent.)
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