- The organizers of the event estimate that the facilities will accommodate more than 14,500 people. Main photo: EFE
The Olympic Village for the Paris 2024 Games officially opened its doors on Thursday, July 18, to welcome the first athletes who will participate in the sporting event. The first delegations to arrive were from Colombia, Thailand, Australia and Mexico.
The complex, located in the north of the French capital, covers an area of 52 hectares and will accommodate around 14,500 people, of whom 9,000 will be athletes, 4,000 will participate as workers and 1,500 will be volunteers.
Countries such as the United States, New Zealand, Brazil and Switzerland are expected to arrive for the opening of the competition on July 26. This is because, according to the director of the Village, Laurent Michaud, there is still work to be done to finalize the venues.
As the host country, France chose its own building. The 624 athletes in the French delegation will have a private training room of 170 square metres. In addition, the Village has a common room with a television screen, board games and a football pitch.
The opening of the Village marks the start of final preparations for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which will be held from 26 July to 11 August.
Paris 2024 qualification
Qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games began on June 24, 2022 and ended at the end of June 2024. The Venezuelan representation qualified in at least 10 disciplines with more than 33 participants in total.
The opening ceremony will be celebrated with a parade of boats on the Seine. For the first time, the event will take place outside a stadium.
The Olympic Games will be attended by 206 Olympic Committees, representing at least 10,500 athletes in 32 sports.
Venezuela announced its flag bearers for the 2024 Paris Olympics
The Venezuelan Olympic Committee (COV) reported on July 2 that triple jumper Yulimar Rojas and weightlifter Julio Mayora They will be in charge of carrying the Venezuelan flag on July 26 during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Rojas will repeat as flag bearer of Venezuela following having represented the country in the Tokyo 2020 Gamesin which she was accompanied by karateka Antonio Diaz; while Mayora won the silver medal in weightlifting in the competition in the capital of Japan and in the last two Pan American Games she took the gold medal.
Yulimar Rojas will be the flag bearer despite not being able to participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games due to a injury to his Achilles tendon left side for which she had to undergo surgery at the Cemtro Clinic in Madrid, Spain on April 12.
The athlete expressed her frustration at what happened and confessed to feeling emotionally affected by not being able to represent Venezuela at the Olympics. However, the mishap did not prevent her from carrying the tricolor flag during the opening of the world event.
The selection of the national flag bearers has been carried out by consultation since 2008. The voting process involves those qualified for the Olympics, the committees of 19 states in the country and their respective Olympic municipalities, the board of directors of the organization and representatives of the Ministry of Sport and the National Institute of Sport (IND).
With information from EFE.
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2024-07-19 09:54:01
