Current:Home > StocksWhich country has the largest delegation in Paris for the 2024 Olympics? -Wealthify
Which country has the largest delegation in Paris for the 2024 Olympics?
View
Date:2025-04-17 23:05:55
More than 10,000 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! (29)
Related
- Tom Holland's New Venture Revealed
- Job vacancies, quits plunge in July in stark sign of cooling trend in the US job market
- Fire rescue helicopter crashes into building in Florida; 2 dead, 2 hospitalized
- Former NFL player Marshawn Lynch gets November trial date in Las Vegas DUI case
- 'Survivor' 47 finale, part one recap: 2 players were sent home. Who's left in the game?
- Heavy rains cause significant flooding in parts of West Virginia
- Wisconsin Supreme Court chief justice accuses liberal majority of staging a ‘coup’
- Two inmates suspected in stabbing death of incarcerated man at Northern California prison
- 'As foretold in the prophecy': Elon Musk and internet react as Tesla stock hits $420 all
- Iowa deputies cleared in fatal shooting of man armed with pellet gun
Ranking
- Small twin
- Fans run onto field and make contact with Atlanta Braves star Ronald Acuña Jr.
- ACLU sues over Indiana law blocking gender-affirming surgery for inmates
- Georgia’s election board leader who debunked unfounded 2020 election fraud claims is stepping down
- 'Squid Game' without subtitles? Duolingo, Netflix encourage fans to learn Korean
- Russia says Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin's death confirmed in plane crash after genetic testing
- Why Lindsay Arnold Says She Made the Right Decision Leaving Dancing With the Stars
- House Republicans move closer to impeachment inquiry
Recommendation
Retirement planning: 3 crucial moves everyone should make before 2025
ACLU sues over Indiana law blocking gender-affirming surgery for inmates
Spanish soccer federation officials call for Luis Rubiales' resignation
Nearly 40 years after Arizona woman was killed on a hike, authorities identify her killer
IRS recovers $4.7 billion in back taxes and braces for cuts with Trump and GOP in power
At Case Western, Student Activists Want the Administration to Move More Decisively on Climate Change
Student loan repayments are set to resume. Here's what to know.
Former Pirates majority owner and newspaper group publisher G. Ogden Nutting has died at 87