Here is the complete schedule for the Paris 2024 Olympics, including dates and times for every sport.

Day 1

Saturday July 27

14 golds up for grabs

If gold is your main currency, then tune in for the 10m air rifle mixed team final, which will see the first Paris 2024 champions crowned. China won the title when mixed shooting events were introduced for the first time at the last Games in Tokyo, and are highly fancied again. Representing Team GB will be Seonaid McIntosh and Michael Bargeron.

Perhaps bending the rules a little to combine two events here but with the women and men sharing the same time trial course for the first time in Olympic history, why not? The 32.4km route starts and finishes in central Paris, with Belgium’s Remco Evenepoel heavily tipped in the men’s event.

With the rugby sevens competition getting under way on Wednesday, two days before the official opening of the Games, it is a case of blink and you’ll miss the action, with the men’s tournament concluding on what is termed Day 1 in Paris. Fiji are among the favourites again while keep an eye out for Antoine Dupont for France. GB men failed to qualify.

If the conditions are right, then surfing begins on Saturday… roughly 9,500 miles away from Paris, on the French Polynesia island of Tahiti. Teahupo’o is known as being the site of one of the world’s best surf waves. Whether a newcomer to the sport or a surfing nut, there’s a definite intrigue factor around the venue for this sport.

It doesn’t take long for swimming to make a splash in Paris, with medals up for grabs in the evening, including in the always-entertaining women’s and men’s relays. Australia (women) and America (men) have both taken the title at the past two Games and are heavily tipped for golden hat-tricks. Also worth noting the men’s breaststroke semi-finals shortly before, sure to feature a certain Adam Peaty of Great Britain.

The shooting action may just pip the divers in terms of first medal up for grabs in Paris, but hot on the heels late morning will be the crowning of the women’s 3m synchro champions. Britain’s Harper and Mew Jensen, competing as a pair at an Olympics for the first time, are two-time world medallists in the event.

Welshman Josh Tarling, 20, has enjoyed a meteoric rise in professional cycling, winning the British time trial title last year, followed by world championship bronze and European gold. The Ineos Grenadiers rider is not lacking in confidence either, stating in April that he was “going to Paris to win”.

Eight years on from being played on the sands of Rio de Janeiro’s famous Copacabana beach, the sport gets another iconic backdrop for an Olympic Games, in the form of the Eiffel Tower. Temperatures might not be as warm this time around, but expect it to capture the attention of viewers (and photographers’ lenses) in the same way.

Day 2

Sunday July 28

13 golds up for grabs

It was during the women’s Olympic team final three years ago that Simone Biles, the most decorated gymnast in history, shocked the watching world when she pulled out of the competition over mental health fears. After a hiatus following Tokyo, Biles returned to the sport with an eye on Paris — today’s qualification round is her first outing.

A tasty opener for Great Britain women’s side, who will be targeting a top-four finish in Group B to reach the quarter-finals. These two teams in fact met at that stage three years ago in Tokyo, with goalkeeper Maddie Hinch’s penalty shootout heroics getting them through. Hinch has since retired from the team but it is still one packed with experience.

Three years ago Switzerland locked out the women’s Olympic podium in this event but French fans will be hoping instead for a fairy-tale ending for home favourite Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, who will retire from mountain biking after the Games. For Britain, Commonwealth champion Evie Richards will aim to have shrugged off a recent bout of concussion to improve on her seventh place in Tokyo.

Another heavyweight encounter between two big sporting nations, this time in women’s football. Former Chelsea women’s manager Emma Hayes will have already watched her team take on Zambia in the tournament but this will be her biggest test since taking over as head coach of the United States team.

A potential first gold medal of the Paris Olympics for Britain if it all comes together for Adam Peaty. The breaststroke maestro is, however, much less of a sure bet than he was when winning his two previous Olympic titles in 2016 and 2021, having stepped away from swimming for health reasons during the past few years. In his absence, China’s world champion Qin Haiyang has stepped up.

The iconic Michael Phelps is the only man to win any Olympic swimming event three times in a row. Britain’s Peaty is looking to join him in that esteemed club. Victory would also cap a remarkable comeback for the 29-year-old, who previously stated that swimming had left him broken.

Not just one of France’s best gold-medal hopes in the pool but tipped to be one of the faces of Games. The 22-year-old is a five-time world champion, including twice in the 400m individual medley event, which sees medals dished out on Sunday. Last year the Frenchman smashed Michael Phelps’s long-standing 400m IM world record by 1.34 seconds.

The men’s and women’s competition kick off this Sunday, with a twist. The old Olympic format, RS:X, has been replaced by the iQFOiL class. So instead of floating over the water, the board appears to fly thanks to the use of hydrofoils on the bottom that lift it completely out of the water at planing speeds. There will be 20 races in both the men and women’s events, including the final medal race on Friday, Aug 2.

Day 3

Monday July 29

18 golds up for grabs

Three years ago, Tom Daley appeared to have signed off on his Olympic story with a long-awaited gold in the men’s synchro. But, spurred on by the opportunity to compete in front of his young children in Paris, he is back out of retirement and diving with a new partner in Noah Williams. Daley will become the first British diver to compete at five Olympics. He is not just there for the ride either and is eyeing up another medal.

Team GB will be looking to retain their Olympic title from Tokyo, their first since 1972, with two members of that medal-winning squad, Laura Collett and Tom McEwen, named in the travelling party again for Paris, alongside Ros Canter and reigning world champion Yasmin Ingham. The Palace of Versailles will make for a wonderful backdrop to the competition.

While just eight days separate the final stage of the Tour de France and men’s cross-country race, defending Olympic champion Tom Pidcock has long eyed up trying to juggle both. The Briton has already enjoyed success on the road this season with Ineos Grenadiers but wants to cement ‘legend’ status by winning back-to-back Olympic golds.

The first gymnastics medals of the Games will be decided in the men’s team final. China are regular visitors to the medal rostrum in this event, as are Japan, while the US might prove to be the dark horses. Britain’s last Olympics men’s team medal came with bronze at London 2012.

After a battle royale between Thomas Dean and Duncan Scott in Tokyo, it will instead be silver medallist Scott and current world champion Matt Richards flying the flag for Britain, if all has gone to plan in the heats. Like Dean, Brazil’s Tokyo bronze medallist Fernando Scheffer was another not to qualify for the event, so the rostrum will take a different look in Paris.

An Olympic champion aged 18 as part of the 4x200m relay team in Tokyo, Richards touched out team-mate Tom Dean to become 200m freestyle world champion in 2023, and then won the British trials this year, edging out defending Olympic champion Dean again.

Having not medalled in any male gymnastics events in Tokyo, the US are desperate to get their flag back on the rostrum — and Fred Richard could be among their leading lights. All-around world bronze medallist last year — just the fourth and youngest male medal-winner in American history — there are high hopes for the 20-year-old.

An unfamiliar sport to the British but popular in continental Europe, men’s handball was introduced to the Olympic programme in 1936, played outdoors, and then the next time indoors in 1972. It has been a permanent fixture since, with women’s handball added four years later. Similar to indoor football, but using hands instead of feet. France (three) and Denmark (three) lead the way for most men’s and women’s golds.

Day 4

Tuesday July 30

12 golds up for grabs

For the first time since 2004, Team GB’s Olympic triathlon team will not feature a Brownlee brother. But fortunately for British fans, it does feature a certain in-form Alex Yee, the Tokyo individual silver and team gold medallist, who won the Paris test event last year. Expect long-time New Zealand rival Hayden Wilde to provide his biggest challenge.

An eighth Olympic medal for Simone Biles? The US are the powerhouse of women’s gymnastics, with just making the world champions’ team in the first place a hard enough job. They will be desperate to regain the title they lost amid Biles’ withdrawal midway through the competition in Tokyo.

Since the discipline was introduced to the Olympic programme in 2016, women’s gold has been won by a southern hemisphere side, in first Australia and then New Zealand, with Britain finishing agonisingly in fourth both times. Gold at last year’s European Games secured Britain’s place for Paris but they will need to be at the very top of their game to medal in Paris.

When it comes to the women’s 100m backstroke, Australia’s Kaylee McKeown is all but unstoppable. The reigning Olympic and Commonwealth Games champion arrived at the Games having set every one of the top five times in history, and all but one of the top 10. It would be a big shock for her not to stand atop the medal rostrum again.

Three years ago it was raining medals in the pool for Britain, including a first win in the men’s 4x200m freestyle relay since 1908. Having backed it up with the world title in 2023, the men failed to make the podium in the same competition earlier this year. But, being blessed with talented freestyle options, they ought to be right in the mix again in Paris.

British shooter makes his Olympics debut ranked number two in the world and having broken the men’s trap world record at the Lonato World Cup in 2023. World silver in 2022 first helped to secure him a quota place for Paris, with shooting fans hoping the Olympic story is able to come full circle with today’s men’s trap final.

Competing at her first Olympics, British archer Healey, 19, is already a double European Games gold medallist and last year topped the women’s recurve world rankings. She was inspired to take up the sport after watching the 2012 film Brave, in which the princess Merida lifts an ancient curse using her bow.

The introduction of 3×3 basketball to the Olympics programme proved a big hit in Tokyo with Latvia taking the men’s title and the US crowned women’s champions. Considered to be the number one urban sport in the world, with its roots in street basketball, rather than the more structured indoor version, 3×3 basketball ticks all the boxes for the Olympic bigwigs who want to target a younger audience.

Day 5

Wednesday July 31

19 golds up for grabs

The most successful triathlon nation in Olympic history, Britain’s golds have until now come from the men and team event. Tokyo silver medalist Georgia Taylor-Brown is back to try again, while Beth Potter is the reigning world champion. Bermuda’s Flora Duffy had long dominated the event but goes into the Games off the back of an 18-month injury lay-off.

The first medals of the Olympic rowing regatta come in the men’s and women’s quadruple sculls. If all has gone to plan until now, Lauren Henry, Hannah Scott, Lola Anderson and Georgie Brayshaw, winners of Britain’s first world gold in the boat since 2010 last year, should be lining up full of confidence in the women’s event.

Since the event was introduced to the Olympics in 2000, gold has only ever been won by China, with six-time world champion duo Chen Yuxi, 18, and five-time world gold medallist Quan Hongchan, 17, expected to add to that tally. Britain’s Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulson, winners of world silver and bronze, should feature highly.

Could this be the moment Mallory Franklin, Britain’s most successful female canoeist, completes the set of major gold medals? The 16-time world medallist took silver in Tokyo and goes into the event as reigning world champion. First chance of a potential double success in Paris, too, with kayak cross still to come.

Three years ago, Japan’s Hashimoto Daiki rose to the occasion on home soil with the all-around title, one of three Olympic medals won in Tokyo. Since then he has added back-to-back world titles and will be the one to beat in Paris.

The Newcastle native has long been laying down world-first tricks on a bike, with the past few years seeing him pick up major BMX freestyle medals too. After European silver in 2022, he added European Games gold a year later, alongside being crowned men’s BMX freestyle world champion — the first time a Briton had achieved the feat.

American, 21, has established himself as a leading top male sprint swimmer, winning five medals at the 2023 World Championships, including silver in the men’s 100m freestyle. Tipped to contend in multiple events again at his maiden Olympics, including today’s 100m final if all has gone to plan with the heats.

For those that missed the sport’s much-lauded Olympics debut in Tokyo, riders perform as many tricks as possible in 60 seconds, with their score based on the difficulty of those tricks, height of jumps, creativity and style of routines. Britain’s Charlotte Worthington won the inaugural women’s title in 2021 and is back for Paris.

Day 6

Thursday August 1

18 golds up for grabs

The third consecutive Games to feature golf, with a number of the world’s leading players present at Le Golf National. Defending champion and recent PGA Championship winner Xander Schauffele leads the USA team, which has no place for US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau. Rory McIlroy lines up for Ireland, with Tommy Fleetwood and Matt Fitzpatrick the British picks.

If all has gone to plan, Britain’s much-fancied women’s four — European champions and world bronze medalists — will be on the start line for today’s medal race. The boat is made up of Rebecca Shorten, Esme Booth, Sam Redgrave (no relation to Sir Steve) and double Olympic champion Helen Glover, the latter aiming to become Britain’s first mother-of-three to win an Olympic medal, at her fourth Games.

The first medals up for grabs at the sailing regatta. Britain’s Tokyo Olympic champions Dylan Fletcher and Stuart Bithell have since retired, with Englishman James Peters and Scotland’s Fynn Sterritt gaining selection this time around. For the women, Freya Black and Saskia Tidey will have hoped to have raced themselves into medal contention.

Joe Clarke became Britain’s first individual K1 gold medal winner in 2016 but missed out on selection for Tokyo. This time he’s back on two fronts, with his beloved kayak cross event still to come — but don’t bet against the 31-year-old in this event, especially having beaten reigning Olympic champion Jiří Prskavec to gold at last year’s World Championships.

The stage should be all set for Simone Biles to add another individual medal to her Olympic collection, as she sets out to regain the all-around title she won in 2016 before having to miss the 2021 final, citing mental health concerns.

The 25-year-old swimmer claimed Britain’s first global title in a women’s individual event since Rebecca Adlington in 2011 with 200m butterfly gold this February. Having just missed out on the final on her Olympics debut in Tokyo, the hope will be that she has reached today’s medal race.

Stephens aside, the women’s 200m butterfly is sure to be one to keep an eye on anyway with America’s Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Regan Smith heavily tipped, as is Summer McIntosh. The versatile Canadian swimmer was her team’s youngest athlete in Tokyo, aged 14, and has pushed on since, winning two world titles.

The first athletics event in Paris comes in the form of the men’s and women’s 20km race walk. Although a foot race, the difference from running is that one foot must appear to be in contact with the ground at all times — and the watching judges will have no problems issuing disqualifications for repeated infringements.

Day 7

Friday August 2

23 golds up for grabs

One hundredth of a second separated Britain’s Emily Craig and Imogen Grant from a medal at their debut Olympics in Tokyo. That fourth-placed finish has driven them on this Olympiad, winning 10 successive international regattas, including two world and two European titles. Hot favourites for gold.

Seonaid McIntosh, Britain’s most successful female rifle shooter, competes at a second Olympics looking to finally land a medal. The former world No1 had been highly tipped in the event in Tokyo, but failed to make the final. Gold in three out of four World Cup events this year already will have boosted her confidence.

It was back in 2016 that Britain’s Jack Laugher and his partner Chris Mears made history with Britain’s first Olympic diving gold. While Mears is long retired, Laugher has pushed on, overcoming a crisis of confidence to win individual bronze in Tokyo. Now 29, he goes again in the synchro event, alongside City of Leeds club-mate Anthony Harding. Expect China to dominate.

Fast and furious, the Olympic BMX racing promises excitement and crashes aplenty as riders reach speeds of up to 60km/h (37mph). Both champions will be crowned on the same day, with Britain’s Bethany Shriever returning to defend her title.

In Tokyo, Britain’s Duncan Scott had to settle for 200m individual medley silver, after China’s Wang Shun touched him out by 0.28 seconds. The pair will go again in Paris, with Scott’s team-mate Tom Dean also a contender, as is France’s poster boy Leon Marchant.

Britain’s most successful female Olympic gymnast, trampoline gymnast Page, 33, has the chance to complete the set of Olympic medals after silver in Rio and bronze in Tokyo. Since then she has gone to take the world title twice, including last year in Birmingham.

Teenage sensation dominated the 800m final at the recent British trials, comfortably beating Olympic finalists to gold. That performance came after she broke the 45-year European Under-18 record in May, just two weeks after her 17th birthday.

First included at the Olympics in 1964, judo is a traditional Japanese martial art derived from jiu-jitsu, the hand-to-hand combat technique of ancient samurai warriors. All eyes will be on France’s home favourite Teddy Riner (men’s 100kg), who is tied for the all-time lead of Olympic judo medals (three gold and two bronze), and has a record 11 individual world titles to his name.

Day 8

Saturday August 3

27 golds up for grabs

Considered to be rowing’s blue riband event, the men’s and women’s medals will be decided at the Vaires-sur-Marne Nautical Stadium. Coming into the regatta, the Great Britain men’s crew were triple European and double world champions in this Olympic cycle. The women’s eight, featuring a male cox (Henry Fieldman) in a female boat for the first time for GB at an Olympics, will also hope to be prominent.

Gymnastics great Simone Biles has two elements named after her in the vault, including the most difficult jump in women’s gymnastics. But such moves, which can deliver unbeatable scores if successful, come with risks as shown in last year’s World Championships when Brazil’s reigning Olympic champion Rebeca Andrade pipped Biles to gold when the American stumbled on landing.

A golden farewell for Britain’s most successful gymnast of all time? Six-time Olympic medallist Max Whitlock will bow out after his fourth Games in Paris, hoping to have successfully defended the pommel title he won in 2016 and 2021. A medal of any colour would make him the first gymnast in history to make the podium on the same apparatus four times (he also won bronze at London 2012). Watch out for Northern Ireland’s reigning world champion Rhys McClenaghan.

A Jamaican sprinter has topped the podium at every Games since 2008. Two-time defending champion Elaine Thompson-Herah misses out with injury, but Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, champion in 2008 and 2012, qualified for her fifth Games, behind last year’s world silver medallist Shericka Jackson. And that’s before mentioning American world champion Sha’Carri Richardson, Ivory Coast’s Marie-Josée Ta Lou and British duo Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita.

Three years ago, Britain set a world record en route to winning the inaugural mixed relay at the Olympics. The novelty of the event comes in working out the best strategy, and which swimmers to put on what leg, often pitting men against women.

The 57-year-old will become just the second Briton to appear at seven Olympics. He made his Olympic debut at Barcelona 1992 – becoming Team GB’s youngest rider at the Games – and was their oldest at Tokyo 2020, aged 54. Hester missed Beijing 2008 but won his first Olympic medal at London 2012, with team dressage gold, before adding a team silver at Rio 2016 as well bronze in the team event in Tokyo.

The 22-year-old Sheffield sprinter, who studies at the University of Houston and is coached by nine-time Olympic champion Carl Lewis, has enjoyed a stunning breakout year so far, becoming the first European to win the men’s 100m US college title before winning the British trials in June.

An exciting new addition to the Olympic programme in Paris, whereby four competitors take on the white-water course simultaneously rather than individually, and all drop in at the start from an elevated ramp.

Day 9

Sunday August 4

20 golds up for grabs

After Justin Rose in 2016 and then Xander Schauffele in 2021, who will be crowned men’s Olympic champion in Paris after four rounds of stroke-play golf? Team USA locked out the top spot on the podium in both the men’s and women’s events in Tokyo, with Nelly Korda triumphing in the women’s event.

The top four teams from Groups A and B qualify for the quarter-finals with Great Britain’s men’s team hoping to have come through a group that features the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, France and South Africa. Victory at the quarter-final stage ensures a guaranteed medal match in Paris.

A permanent fixture on the Olympic programme since 1988, recent men’s champions have included Alexander Zverev (2021), Andy Murray (2016 and 2012) and Rafael Nadal (2008). The latter skipped Wimbledon to concentrate on the Olympics on his beloved clay, but it will take some effort for the 38-year-old to make it to the singles medal matches in Paris.

On only four occasions has the Olympic podium not featured a Dutch woman since the event was introduced in 1984. And as usual, the Netherlands team is stacked, with Marianne Vos, Demi Vollering, Lorena Wiebes and Ellen van Dijk selected. Mother-of-two and 2012 silver medallist Lizzie Deignan heads up the British team.

In Tokyo, Lamont Marcell Jacobs shocked the watching world with victory in the post-Usain Bolt era. The Italian reclaimed his European title earlier this summer but all eyes will be on world champion Noah Lyles to see if he can complete part one of a golden sprint double in Paris. Zharnel Hughes, Britain’s fastest man ever over 100m and 200m, comes into the Games off the back of a hamstring injury.

Former world champion shooter competes in the women’s skeet event in Paris, just two months after giving birth to son Tommy. Hotly tipped for the last Games, she was forced to miss Tokyo after contracting Covid on the eve of the Olympics, a disappointment that almost led to her quitting the sport.

The first English male gymnast to win four gold medals at a single Commonwealth Games in 2022, vault specialist Jarman, 22, has continued to push on since, becoming individual world and European champion. Will fancy his chances of becoming Britain’s latest Olympic medallist.

A high-octane, exciting new sport added to the sailing programme for Paris, which sees athletes propelled above the water’s surface using foiling boards while holding a 7-18m kite to harness the power of the wind. Riders can reach speeds of up to 45 knots (51mph) with a total of 40 athletes (20 men and 20 women) battling it out for medals over a series of races.

Day 10

Monday August 5

18 golds up for grabs

A second outing for this event after Tokyo, which saw Great Britain take the gold medal, with Alex Yee and Georgia Taylor-Brown again competing this time around. Teams of two men and two women each complete a short-course triathlon (300m swim, 5km bike, 2km run) before tagging off to their team-mate to take over.

Six-time world floor champion Simone Biles drew top marks at the US trials with her floor routine, performed to Taylor Swift’s ‘…Ready For It?’ track. At 27, she is the oldest American female gymnast to compete at an Olympics since Marie Margaret Hoesley in 1952 – yet still remains the one to beat.

Time for the first Olympic kayak cross champions to be crowned, as four competitors in each of the men’s and women’s finals complete the course at the same time. Britons Joe Clarke and Kimberley Woods are the reigning world champions in the event.

The first track cycling medals on offer in Paris and it promises to be a cracker, with the number of riders per team increased from two to three. For the first time in 12 years, Great Britain are among the favourites, with Katy Marchant, Sophie Capewell and Emma Finucane having helped bring about a turnaround in fortunes. Germany, however, remain the ones to beat.

When he’s on form, no one else comes close to Swedish pole vaulter Mondo Duplantis, who has already won the world indoor and European titles this year. Rather than watching to see whether he will defend his Olympic title in Paris, the question is more whether he will improve his own world record mark.

An Olympic silver medallist in 2021, 800m runner Hodgkinson has continued to add to her collection since, with two world silvers and two European titles. Defending champion Athing Mu’s failure to qualify for Paris raises the expectations on the 22-year-old British record holder but she should still have plenty of competition, including from Kenyan world champion Mary Moraa, and fellow Brit Phoebe Gill.

Paris could be life-changing for 21-year-old Welsh sprinter Finucane, who bids to become the first female cyclist to win three golds at the same Games. The individual sprint and Keirin come later, but first the women’s team sprint, in which Britain are world silver medallists.

After all three sport climbing formats (speed, bouldering and lead) were grouped into a combined medal event for Tokyo, Paris sees speed climbing also recognised as a separate event this time around. Toby Roberts, a multiple World Cup gold medallist, and Hamish McArthur are GB’s first male Olympic climbers.

Day 11

Tuesday August 6

15 golds up for grabs

The men’s single-hander class looks set to be one of the most nail-biting showdowns of the Olympic sailing regatta. Australia’s Matt Wearn is the defending Olympic champion and reigning back-to-back world champion. But he is expected to be pushed hard by Britain’s Games debutant Michael Beckett, who won silver at the Test event at the same venue last summer.

It is hard to look past yet another Chinese gold medal in this one with reigning Olympic and world champion Quan Hongchan expected to add to her growing teenage legacy. But the minor medals could well see some British interest with European and Commonwealth champion Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix a seasoned competitor now.

Sky Brown became Britain’s youngest Olympic medallist, aged 13, when she won bronze as skateboarding made its debut in Tokyo. Now 16 and a world champion, she will be hoping a recent knee injury is firmly behind her. Youth should steal the show again in this, with Lola Tambling also representing Britain.

All being well in the earlier rounds, this medal race should see another eagerly awaited showdown between Norwegian Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen and British world champion Josh Kerr. Expect fireworks from these fierce rivals. Neil Gourley and George Mills, son of England and Manchester City defender Danny, were also picked for Britain for the event.

Between June 2022 and May this year, Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson went undefeated in the 200m, capturing two world titles and running three of the four fastest times in history. Gabrielle Thomas, the Tokyo bronze medallist, won the US trials to qualify for Paris, while Dina Asher-Smith and Daryll Neita are Britain’s hopes.

Can equestrian rider Maher, competing at his fifth Games, write another chapter into his storied Olympic career? Team gold at London 2012 – Britain’s first in 60 years – was followed by individual gold in Tokyo. A serious shoulder injury in 2023 sidelined him but the 41-year-old has rebounded in time for Paris as he looks to defend his title.

American wrestler Elor is just 20 years old but has already won back-to-back world titles at 72kg (a non-Olympic weight class). Having been ineligible to try to qualify for Tokyo by just one day, the chance to make her mark in the 68kg Olympic class in Paris is one she is not likely to pass up.

Taking place on flatwater and featuring sprints over various distances, the sport first became an Olympic medal discipline at the Berlin 1936 Games. Canoeists kneel in the boat and use a single-blade paddle on one side at a time, whereas kayakers are seated and use a double-bladed paddle.

Day 12

Wednesday August 7

21 golds up for grabs

Can 2021 champion and current world No 1 Nelly Korda become the first golfer to successfully defend an Olympic title? Charley Hull represents Team GB for a second time following her tied seventh-place finish in Rio, while Georgia Hall makes her Games debut.

If you fancy watching athletes scramble frantically up a wall, with movements akin to Spiderman, then this is the event for you. The women’s Olympic speed climbing record currently stands at 6.84 seconds (up a 15m high wall) and is held by Poland’s Aleksandra Miroslaw. Indonesia’s Desak Made Rita Kusuma Dewi is the current world champion.

Gold for Australia’s Keegan Palmer in Tokyo prevented Japan from completing a clean sweep of the skateboarding titles in 2021. Ranked second in the world, he’s back for more in Paris, but the US, with four of its athletes making up the rest of the top five, are much fancied. For Team GB, Andy Macdonald, who will have turned 51, will become skateboarding’s oldest Olympian.

The British women’s team’s aim of adding Olympic gold to the world title they reclaimed last year took a hit on the eve of the Games when veteran endurance rider Katie Archibald was ruled out through injury. New Zealand are tipped to shine in the women’s event with Denmark ones to watch in the men’s contest.

Injury scuppered his Tokyo aspirations on the eve of the Games three years ago, but if luck has finally been on Matthew Hudson-Smith’s side, he should be lining up for the 400m final in Paris. Individual success in the form of world bronze and silver medals, plus European gold, has come this Olympic cycle. Compatriot Charlie Dobson has also enjoyed a strong season so far.

One of British Athletics’ brightest new stars, Truro-born pole vaulter Caudery won world indoor gold in March and then was disappointed to follow it up only with European bronze in June. The British record-holder has consequently reset her targets for her maiden Olympics, with a medal now firmly her aim.

Born in Moscow to a Nigerian father and Russian mother, men’s 92kg+ boxer Orie moved to England aged seven with his family to seek a better life, but it was only aged 18 that he started in the ring. He won the English National Championships in 2019, before Commonwealth Games gold in 2022, and European gold in 2023.

A martial art with roots originating in ancient Korea, the idea is to kick and punch your opponent as often as possible. Matches take place on an octagonal mat, with points awarded according to the difficulty of the technique. Britain has collected nine medals since its debut as an Olympic sport in 2002.

Day 13

Thursday August 8

25 golds up for grabs

Not only is American Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone the defending Olympic champion, but every time she lines up on the track she seems to set a world record. Her US trials time of 50.65sec puts her some way clear of Femke Bol, the Dutch sprinter who is expected to be among her biggest rivals in Paris.

British cycling fans will hope Emma Finucane, a two-time Keirin European silver medallist, is in the mix again for this sprint event. Dutch cyclist Shanne Braspennincx won gold in Tokyo but has since retired. Ellesse Andrews, of New Zealand, is the reigning world champion.

Three years ago, Belgium claimed their first men’s Olympic title after defeating Australia on penalties, while in 2016 it was Argentina standing on the top of the medal rostrum for the first time. Great Britain’s men have been overshadowed by the women in recent years with gold in 1988 their last medal.

A packed day of action for British fans, with 2021 silver medallist Bradly Sinden hoping to go one better in the men’s 68kg, and add Olympic gold to his two world and two European titles. And then there is Jade Jones. Distraught to be knocked out in the first round in Tokyo chasing an unprecedented third gold, the Welsh fighter appears at her fourth Games.

Can it turn into the Noah Lyles show in Paris? The face of American track and field, who won bronze in Tokyo, set a US trials record (19.53secs) in June to signal his intent for Paris. Main competition could come from compatriot Kenny Bednarek.

Liverpool-born heptathlete regained her world title last summer, two years after injury scuppered her Tokyo dreams. The Briton, 31, is yet to finish on the Olympic podium in three attempts, but the opening day of the two-day competition will be a good indicator of her medal chances in Paris.

A dinghy sailor in her youth, Poole’s Ellie Aldridge was catapulted into the British Sailing reckoning when kite-surfing was added to the Olympic programme for Paris. A world silver and European gold medallist, Aldridge will hope to have got herself in the mix for the Paris medal races, too. Home favourite Lauriane Nolot is hotly tipped.

A form of expression through movement, the sport combines elements of traditional dance and artistic gymnastics while making use of four apparatus: ribbon, hoop, ball and clubs. The women-only event was first added to the Olympic programme in 1984.

Day 14

Friday August 9

34 golds up for grabs

Belgium’s two-time Olympic champion Nafi Thiam is the heavy favourite to make it a golden hat-trick in Paris, with the long jump, javelin and 800m rounding off the two-day competition. British eyes will be on Katarina Johnson-Thompson to see if she can finally land an Olympic medal.

Dutch rider Harrie Lavreysen, defending champion in the team and individual sprint, has been close to unbeatable in recent years, with the 27-year-old expected to deliver again in Paris. Britain’s Jack Carlin, individual bronze medallist in Tokyo, will hope having Sir Jason Kenny in his corner as coach has helped him close the gap.

The inaugural women’s Olympic Madison champions will not be back to defend their title in Paris with Dame Laura Kenny having retired and British team-mate Katie Archibald absent through injury. Britain, however, are able to boast having the reigning world champions in their ranks in Elinor Barker and Neah Evans.

Featuring Under-23 players plus three over-age additions, the men’s Olympic football tournament does not always tend to follow the established global order. For example, two-time men’s defending champions Brazil failed to qualify. The final will be played at Parc des Princes in Paris with the last non-Americas winner coming back in 2000, when Cameroon triumphed over Spain on penalties.

Always an entertaining athletics spectacle to watch, with the United States and Jamaica the usual heavyweights in both events. Great Britain’s women have completed the podium at the last two Games while British fans will not need reminding of the men’s fate in Tokyo, with their silver medal later stripped away after a positive drugs test for CJ Ujah. Plenty of strength in depth on the team this time around.

Childhood friends and former schoolmates, Shortman and Thorpe are strong contenders to deliver a first British Olympic medal in artistic swimming (formerly known as synchronised swimming). Already the first Britons to win a world medal with silver and bronze in February in Doha, they won gold in the Olympic test event, and will be aiming for a strong start in the technical routine.

Germany’s 17-year-old Varfolomeev won five individual gold medals at last year’s World Championships, becoming the first rhythmic gymnast from her country to claim a world title since 1975 and the second in history to complete a clean sweep of the individual medals. She delayed her graduation from school to focus on her Olympics debut.

Certainly not everyone’s cup of tea, breaking – or breakdancing – makes its Olympics debut in Paris. Comprising two events – one for men and one for women – 16 B-Boys and 16 B-Girls face off in solo battles hoping to impress judges with their moves.

Day 15

Saturday August 10

39 golds up for grabs

The race will be a poignant one for fans of long-distance running with the notable absence of Kelvin Kiptum, the Kenyan world-record holder who tragically died in a car crash in February. Kiptum was expected to provide strong competition to compatriot and two-time defending champion Eliud Kipchoge. Britain will be represented by Olympic debutants Emile Cairess, Mahamed Mahamed and Phil Sesemann.

British hopefuls Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe have already won world bronze and European silver with their free routine and will be out to impress the judges again. With Russia, winner of all gold medals in the duet or the team event since 2000, excluded from Paris due to the invasion of Ukraine, the door is opened for other countries.

Former 1500m champion Jake Wightman had to settle for selection in the 800m for Paris after missing the British trials through injury and receiving a discretionary spot, with team-mate Ben Pattison, a world bronze medallist last year on his global championship debut, also carrying high hopes. With no-one dominating the event in recent years, the race for the medals is wide open.

Of the 20 Olympic titles handed out for men’s basketball since its introduction in 1936, 16 of them have been awarded to the USA team. With a roster packed full of NBA stars, including LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant and Kawhi Leonard, the four-time defending champions are expected to be in this gold medal match again. Hosts France, and Canada, are likely to provide the stiffest competition.

Introduced to the Olympic programme in 1912 by Games founder Pierre de Coubertin, Paris will, for now, be the last edition to feature equestrian riding with obstacle racing instead taking its place for 2028. Joe Choong, winner of Britain’s first male gold in Tokyo, attempts to defend his title.

Scottish middle-distance runner Muir, 31, would dearly love to finally add a global title to her collection after Olympic 1500m silver in Tokyo and then world bronze in 2022. She will need to have found another gear since her sixth-place finish at last year’s worlds, however, where Kenya’s two-time Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon showed she was still the one to beat.

Part-time fashion model Cunningham, 21, has a strong shout of marking his Olympics taekwondo debut with a medal in the +87kg category. He landed a first European title in May, and last year won gold at the Rome Grand Prix.

The earliest form of the sport was played in the lakes and rivers of mid-19th century England as an aquatic version of rugby before rules emphasised a more football style of play. In terms of Olympics history, the men’s version was added in 1900 but it was only a century later that the women’s event was introduced. An intensely physical sport, contact is permitted. No player may touch the bottom of the pool.

Day 16

Sunday August 11

13 golds up for grabs

For the first time in Olympic history, the women’s marathon will be on the final day of the Games, instead of the slot traditionally going to the men’s race. Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir attempts to defend her title, less than four months after winning the London marathon.

Britain’s Kate French broke the Olympic points record on the way to gold in Tokyo in 2021 and, after stepping away from the sport for 18 months, is back to defend her title at what is her third Games, alongside compatriot and 2023 world bronze medallist Kerenza Bryson.

Hopes are high that Emma Finucane will be rounding off a breakthrough Olympics with individual sprint success. The 21-year-old became just the third Briton, after Victoria Pendleton and fellow Welsh rider Becky James, to win a women’s sprint world title last year, before adding European gold in January.

When men’s water polo first made its Olympics debut in 1900, it was Great Britain who won gold for the next four editions. Times are much changed now, with Britain out of the picture and Serbia instead the two-time defending champions, and Croatia the reigning world champions.

Having come into the Paris Games chasing an eighth straight Olympic title and a 10th success in 11 editions, it would be one of the shocks of the Games not to see the USA team on court for this match. Diana Taurasi, who last year became the first player in WNBA history to score 10,000 career points, has been part of five of those triumphs and, at the age of 42, is aiming for a sixth.

After more than a fortnight of high-class sporting action and drama, the curtain comes down on Paris 2024. The Stade de France will play host to a show that artistic director Thomas Jolly says will “provide an immersive, collective experience that reflects on the origins and future of the Games”. As well as the usual traditional elements, there will also be a glimpse of what Los Angeles 2028 has planned.

Team GB’s sole weightlifter in Paris, not that it will bother Campbell, whose silver in the 87+kg category in Tokyo saw her become the first British woman to win an Olympic weightlifting medal. She has since gone on to add multiple European golds and a 2022 Commonwealth title, although Paris victory is likely to elude her with China’s reigning Games champion Li Wenwen the nailed-on favourite.

Having no sporting background whatsoever, Harvey, 31, was working full-time as a lawyer before the Covid-enforced lockdown in 2020 caused her to be made redundant. In need of a project, she took up running, going on to post the fifth-fastest time of all time by a British female at the 2023 Chicago Marathon.

On the summer Olympics programme since 1964, volleyball is played by two teams of six players on an indoor court 18 metres long and nine metres wide, with the ball reaching speeds of up to 130 kilometres an hour. The women bring the curtain down on the Paris competition, with the United States the defending champions.