Beginning on July 26 and ending on August 11, 2024's Summer Olympics in Paris, France, will have 10,500 participants from 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) who will compete in 32 sports throughout the course of these over two-week long games, which are broken down into 329 events.
The Olympic Games are held in leap years, or every four years, and are run on a global scale by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) with the temporary Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games (OCOG), which is set up by the country and host city to oversee the preparation, coordination, and execution of the Olympic Games. The estimated cost of hosting the 2024 Summer Olympics is €8.3 billion or $8.8 billion.
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Paris Olympics 2024 Organizing Committee
As the name suggests, the Paris Organizing Committee for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games (COJOP2024) will organize the Olympic Games held in Paris, France, in 2024. The IOC member and three-time Olympic champion Tony Estanguet serves as the president and Bernard Lapasset is the honorary president of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee, which was founded in January 2018.
The Board of Directors of the committee includes the Seine Saint Denis departmental council, the Métropole du Grand Paris, the French State, the Ile-de-France region, the CNOSF, the Paris City Council, the French Paralympic and Sports Committee, and representatives from the affiliated towns and cities.
In compliance with the terms of the host city agreement signed by the IOC, CNOSF (French National Olympic and Sports Committee), and Paris City Council, COJOP2024 is in charge of organizing, financing, and carrying out the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
A knowledge and expertise-sharing agreement has been reached between the COJOP2024 and the Tokyo Organizing Committee for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games (TOCOG2020), in which the organizing committee of the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympics will also take part.
The majority of the Board of Directors is made up of 20 members who represent the Olympics and 14 members who represent civil society. Members of the public sector are also represented on the Board of Directors.
The complete list of the 25 bodies, 27 positions, and 45 people that comprise the Board of Directors of COJOP2024, as per the website of the Olympics, is as follows:
| Body | Position | Name |
| Paris 2024 | President | Tony Estanguet |
| Honorary President | Bernard Lapasset | |
| IOC | Member | Guy Drut |
| Member | Jean-Christophe Rolland | |
| Member | Martin Fourcade | |
| CNOSF | President | David Lappartient |
| Secretary-General | Astrid Guyart | |
| Representative | Jean-Pierre Siutat, President of the French Basketball Federation | |
| CAHN (French Commission for High-Level Athletes) | Joint President | Astrid Guyart |
| Joint President | Romain Girouille | |
| CROSIF (Greater Paris Regional Olympic and Sports Committee) | President | Evelyne Ciriegi |
| CPSF (French Paralympic and Sports Committee) | President | Marie-Amélie Le Fur |
| Representative of Paralympic federations | Guislaine Westelynck, President of the French Parasports Federation | |
| Representative of Paralympic athletes | Cyril Moré | |
| French representative | Tanguy De La Forest, Secretary General of the CPSF | |
| French Olympians Association | President | Valérie Barlois-Leroux |
| Paris 2024 | Figures from the sporting world selected | Guy Forget |
| Nantenin Keita | ||
| Sarah Ourahmoune | ||
| Sandrine Martinet | ||
| Paris City Council | Mayor of Paris | Anne Hidalgo |
| Deputy Mayor | Emmanuel Grégoire | |
| Deputy for Sports | Pierre Rabadan | |
| Regional Council of Ile de France | President | Valérie Pécresse |
| Special Envoy to the Olympic and Paralympic Games | Yasmine Camara | |
| Vice President | Patrick Karam | |
| French Government | Minister for Sport and the Olympic and Paralympic Games | Amélie Oudéa-Castera |
| Minister for People with Disabilities | Fadila Khattabi | |
| Minister for Public Accounts | Thomas Cazenave | |
| Seine Saint Denis departmental council | President | Stéphane Troussel |
| Departmental Advisor | Emmanuel Constant | |
| Greater Paris Metropolitan Area | President | Patrick Ollier |
| Mayor of Dugny | Quentin Gesell | |
| Authorities beyond the Greater Paris area | Mayor of Marseille | Benoît Payan |
| Interministerial Delegate | Delegate for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games | Michel Cadot |
| Solideo | CEO | Nicolas Ferrand |
| Plaine Commune combined authority | President | Mathieu Hanotin |
| Terre d’Envol combined authority | Mayor of Le Bourget | Jean-Baptiste Borsali |
| Trade Union | Representative | Bernard Thibault |
| MEDEF (Employers Federation) | Chair | Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux |
| Civil society, business world, NGOs | President and Founder | Alexandre Mars, President and Founder of the Epic Foundation |
| President | Alain Rochon, President of APF France Handicap | |
| Doctor and Surgeon | Michel Cymes | |
| President | Thierry Beaudet, President of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council | |
| Paralympian and founder | Ryadh Sallem, Paralympian and founder of the CAPSAAA foundation | |
| President | Gilles Boeuf, President of the Paris 2024 Games Ecological Transformation Committee |
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FAQ's On Paris 2024 Organizing Committee
A. Tony Estanguet is the chairman of the 2024 Paris Olympics. He is a French slalom canoeist and a three-time Olympic gold medalist in 2000, 2004, and 2012.
A. The office of the 2024 Paris Organizing Committee is at 46, rue Proudhon, 93210, Saint-Denis, France.
A. A total of 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) are participating in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
A. Paris was chosen as the host city at the 131st IOC Session on September 13, 2017, in Lima, Peru.
A. The main stadium is the Stade de France, which is located in the commune of Saint-Dennis in Paris, France.
