A GUIDE TO HOW PARIS WILL WELCOME FANS AND STAGE 32 SPORTS AT FIRST POST-PANDEMIC OLYMPICS

By GRAHAM DUNBAR and JOHN LEICESTER Associated Press

PARIS (AP) — The Olympics is on track to be back in business with millions of visitors coming to Paris for the 2024 Games.

The French capital has the expert experience to stage the event and welcome guests for the first Olympics of the post-pandemic era. That should be a relief after a chaotic lead-in to the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and uncertainty from postponing the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 with no guarantee it would eventually happen one year later. It did, but in almost entirely empty venues.

Organisers, athletes and fans preparing for competitions in Paris — and regional French cities like Lille and Marseille, plus the far-away surfing venue of Tahiti in the South Pacific — can be confident the show will go on.

we can expect from the 2024 Paris Olympics:

WHAT ABOUT TICKETS? About 10 million tickets were made available for the Paris Olympics with 329

A WOMAN enjoys the sun in the Tuileries gardens, Monday, July 10, 2023, in Paris where temperatures are expected to rise. The use of Paris monuments as outdoor venues for competition will be televisual. But they could also be insufferably hot if France is baking through another of its worsening heat waves. (AP Photo/ Thomas Padilla, File) medal events in 32 different sports spread across 18 different days of competition.

Close to 7 million have already been sold with one year to go before the opening ceremony on July 26.