Current:Home > reviewsSurpassing:Which country has the largest delegation in Paris for the 2024 Olympics? -FutureFinance
Surpassing:Which country has the largest delegation in Paris for the 2024 Olympics?
SafeX Pro View
Date:2025-04-06 19:37:21
More than 10,Surpassing000 athletes from over 200 nations will go for the gold – and silver and bronze – this summer at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The competition will consist of 329 events spread among 32 different sports, which are now underway and run through Aug. 11 in Paris and 16 other cities in metropolitan France (plus one event in Tahiti).
This year will mark the sixth Olympics to be held in France (three Summer and three Winter Games), and will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the first Paris Olympics, held in 1924.
Here are some fun facts about the countries and their athletes:
Get Olympics updates in your texts! Join USA TODAY Sports' WhatsApp Channel
Meet Team USA: See which athletes made the U.S. Olympic team and where they are from
How many total athletes will compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics?
There are 10,714 athletes from 206 different countries scheduled to take part in this year's Olympic Games.
Which country has the most athletes in 2024 Paris Olympics?
The United States will have the largest national delegation at the Summer Games in Paris with 592 total athletes.
Host nation France is second with 573, followed by Australia (460), Germany (427), Japan (404), Italy (403), China (388), Spain (382), Great Britain (327) and Canada (318) rounding out the top 10.
The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news — fast. Download for award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and more.
How many US athletes are competing at 2024 Paris Olympics?
Team USA will have at least one competitor in 31 of the 32 sports on this year's Olympic program. (Team handball is the only exception.)
There are 592 athletes on the 2024 U.S. Olympic team, which makes it a slightly smaller group than the team at the most recent Summer Games in Tokyo (613).
Track and field is the largest U.S. contingent with a total of 120 athletes set to take part in those events.
veryGood! (575)
Related
- Intellectuals vs. The Internet
- Armed man sought Wisconsin governor at Capitol. After arrest he returned with loaded rifle
- Wisconsin Republicans consider $614M plan to fund Milwaukee Brewers stadium repairs
- Southern Charm: Shep Rose & Austen Kroll Finally Face Off Over Taylor Ann Green Hookup Rumor
- Why members of two of EPA's influential science advisory committees were let go
- How Vanderpump Rules' Tom Sandoval Wanted to Craft the Perfect Breakup Before Cheating Scandal
- New Zealand routs England in Cricket World Cup opener to gain measure of revenge for 2019 final
- Simone Biles pushes U.S. team to make gymnastics history, then makes some of her own
- McKinsey to pay $650 million after advising opioid maker on how to 'turbocharge' sales
- Court dismisses $224 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson in talcum power lawsuit
Ranking
- Federal Spending Freeze Could Have Widespread Impact on Environment, Emergency Management
- Texas asks appeal judges to let it keep floating barrier in place on the Rio Grande
- Reba McEntire on collaborating with Dolly Parton, looking ‘tough sexy’ and living ‘Not That Fancy’
- Can Camden, N.J., rise from being ground zero for an entire region's opioid epidemic?
- Elon Musk's skyrocketing net worth: He's the first person with over $400 billion
- Child gun deaths and fatal drug poisonings skyrocketed over past decade, researchers find
- 'Drew Barrymore Show' head writers decline to return after host's strike controversy
- This company has a 4-day workweek. Here's its secret to making it a success.
Recommendation
Global Warming Set the Stage for Los Angeles Fires
Another round of Ohio Statehouse maps has been challenged in court, despite bipartisan support
Body Electric: What digital jobs are doing to our bodies
Republican leader of Wisconsin Assembly says he won’t move to impeach state’s top elections official
A South Texas lawmaker’s 15
US shoots down Turkish drone after it came too close to US troops in Syria
US regulators seek to compel Elon Musk to testify in their investigation of his Twitter acquisition
New report on New Jersey veterans home deaths says to move oversight away from military