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Inside Gymnastics Magazine | The Olympics are here! 10 facts about Paris 2024 and gymnastics in Paris

Inside Gymnastics Magazine | The Olympics are here! 10 facts about Paris 2024 and gymnastics in Paris

Indoor Gymnastics will be on site in Paris for the XXXIII Olympiad, bringing you all the action of the Games! Make sure you by following our social media pages (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram & Wires) for the latest news and biggest developments surrounding what promises to be the most epic and most-watched Olympic Games ever.

  • Data: July 27 – August 5
  • Location: Bercy Arena
  • TV channels: NBC, USA Network, E!
  • Streaming: Peacock, NBCOlympics.com, NBC.com, NBC App, NBC Olympics App

TV broadcasts + streaming info

  • The primetime broadcast of major events begins at 8:00 PM ET/PT on NBC and Peacock.
  • The full gymnastics schedule, including apparatus feeds for each session and TV listings, is also available on the NBC Olympics schedule page.
  • Live and delayed broadcasts of gymnastics will be aired on the following TV channels: NBC, USA Network, and E!

The grid

Gymnastics at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris will be broadcast on NBC, USA Network and E!, and will be streamed on Peacock and NBC Olympics platforms beginning Saturday, July 27.

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By Megan Roth

With the Paris competition just a week away, here are 5 facts about gymnastics in Paris and 5 fun facts about the Paris Olympics as a whole to help you prepare for the Games!

Gymnastics in Paris

1) Returning Olympians. Of the 191 artistic gymnasts competing in Paris, 79 are returning Olympians – 47 in MAG and 32 in WAG. Max Whitlock (Great Britain), Andreas Toba (Germany), Igor Radivilov (Ukraine), Arthur Davtyan (Armenia), and Ellie Black (Canada) will participate in the Olympic Games in Paris four times. Becky Downie (Great Britain) and Jade-Barbosa (Brazil) participated in the Beijing Olympics 16 years ago in 2008!

2) Youngest and oldest teams. With an average age of 17.2, Team Romania is the youngest women’s team and Team USA (22.2) is the youngest men’s team in Paris. Team Netherlands (27.6) and Teams China and Spain (27) are the oldest teams in Paris. The U.S. women’s team is the oldest since 1952.

3) NCAA athletes in Paris. 22 artistic gymnasts competing in Paris are current or former NCAA athletes – 13 women and 9 men. Read more about the NCAA gymnasts competing in Paris here!

4) First-year students make the difference. Six first-year female senior gymnasts will compete in Paris – Hezly Rivera (UNITED STATES), Abigail Martin (Great Britain), Zhang Yihan (China), Ming Gherardi van Eijken (France), Nakamura Haruka (Japan), and Helen Kevric (Germany). Angel Barajas (Colombia) will be the only first-year MAG senior in Paris.

5) Age malfunctions. Jade Barbosa (33) and Hezly Rivera (16) are the oldest and youngest WAG gymnasts competing in Paris. Vahagn Davtyan (Armenia, 35) and Angel Barajas (17) are the oldest and youngest MAG athletes competing in Paris. In MAG, there will be more than three times as many gymnasts in their 30s as there will be gymnasts in their teens. In WAG, 62.1% of gymnasts competing in Paris will be over 20.

Paris 2024

1) The The official mascot of the Paris Olympic Games is a hat. Yes, a hat. Previous Olympic mascots have included everything from pandas to bears to tigers, but in Paris the official mascot is the Olympic Phryge, a traditional hat once worn by French revolutionaries. These hats, pronounced “freege,” appear on French coins and stamps and are seen as a symbol of freedom.

2) Olympic medals contain iron, which was once part of the Eiffel Tower. This year’s Olympic medals will feature the most iconic part of Paris. Each Olympic medal will be infused with iron from the original Eiffel Tower, completed in 1889. The iron pieces were cut from parts of the tower that had been saved from renovations over the years.

3) New sports! Breaking, sport climbing, skateboarding and surfing will make their debut, and 3×3 basketball will return. The surfing events will be held in Tahiti, French Polynesia, the furthest Olympic event ever held from Paris. Follow Inside Dance for all the breaking coverage!

4) Paris, like London, is the only city to host the Olympic Games three times. The Games were held in Paris in 1900, 1924 and 2024. In 1908, 1948 and 2012, the Games were hosted in London.

5) The opening ceremony will take place along the River Seine. Instead of the athletes running through a stadium, they will sail across the river, breaking with tradition for the first time.