BY JAKEY, ELLIOT, LEO, LUKEY AND TRISTAN

The Olympic Games 2024 take place this summer and they are going to be a time full of daring divers, ferocious footballers and cool climbers who will take to the WORLD’S biggest stage to perform the most amazing feats to try to win an OLYMPIC MEDAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This year’s Games will be held a train ride away in the city of love also known as Paris – the capital of France. The Mog Chronicle will tell you all you need to know about the sports, ceremonies and more!

The Opening Ceremony

The 2024 Olympics opening ceremony takes place on July 26 in Paris. It will start at 6:30 p.m. U.K. time. Tickets for the evening event sold out fast and if you want to get your hands on one, you need to have nearly $3,000 to spare!!! The only tickets currently available on the official Olympics website start at $2,700 – but they do overlook the Eiffel Tower, so that’s something perhaps!?

Exactly what the opening ceremony will look like is usually top secret because they want it to be a big surprise and spectacular show on the night. But we do know that for the first time in the history of the Olympic Summer Games, the ceremony will not take place inside a stadium. Instead, the parade of athletes will take place along Paris’ famous River Seine, with each group from each country travelling on its own boat.

Newest events

This year, audiences will be able to watch some new sports which will involve competitors from all over the world taking on daring stunts like 360s on skateboards and – the most sensational of all – surfing.

Here are a few of the newest sports to look out for at the Olympic Games!

Breaking

This is the first time ever that Breaking will be in the Olympics. It is an urban dance sport that originated in the Bronx, New York. There will be two teams – one for men and one for women. There will be 16 competitors in each group known as B-Boys and B-Girls. They will have one vs ones facing each other using different moves and improvising along to a DJs music. The competition will continue until there is one overall winner from each team who will each be crowned champion.

Sport climbing
This is a young sport with lots of participants in their late teens. There will be three elements to the competition: bouldering, speed, and lead. Bouldering is where the athlete’s climb a 4.5-metre-tall wall without ropes. During the speed event they must climb a 15 metre high wall as fast as possible in a one-on-one elimination round. For the lead event, athletes climb as high as they can in six minutes. This event entered the Olympics during the last Games in Tokyo in 2020.

Skateboarding

Skateboarding is another young sport that first became famous in the U.S. in
the 1950s. This sport had its debut at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics but we’re really excited to see it come back again. There will be two main events: park and street. The park competition will see the skateboarders do mid-air tricks and skate dangerously. For the street event, the skateboarders will go one by one to show off their tricks down stairs and on rails.

Surfing

Surfing was first seen in the Olympics at Tokyo 2020 after decades of campaigning by fans of the sport. And it’s back again this year in Paris. Surfers will perform all sorts of tricks on the waves and be judged by five judges. They will be rated on the type and difficulty of the trick, and speed. When you watch this event, you will see loads of shortboards because they are more manoeuvrable, and they are good for tricks. This legendary sport is going to be held not in France – but in Tahiti instead where the surf is better!

Events taken away:
Sadly, as always, some sports will be taken away and this Olympics it is baseball, softball and karate that did not make the cut.

Tune in from Friday July 26 – the day our summer holidays start – and let us know what you think! Or even better – if you go to France this summer and see any of the Olympic Games in person, come back in September and write an article about it for us!