Current:Home > NewsWhich country has the largest delegation in Paris for the 2024 Olympics? -Aspire Money Growth
Which country has the largest delegation in Paris for the 2024 Olympics?
View
Date:2025-04-14 08:26:31
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! (61579)
Related
- The Louvre will be renovated and the 'Mona Lisa' will have her own room
- Doja Cat Frees the Nipple in Sexy Spiderweb Look at the 2023 MTV VMAs
- US poverty rate jumped in 2022, child poverty more than doubled: Census
- Georgia Gov. Kemp declares state of emergency over inflation
- Scoot flight from Singapore to Wuhan turns back after 'technical issue' detected
- 5 ex-Memphis police officers charged in Tyre Nichols death indicted on federal charges
- Trump asks Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself in Jan. 6 case
- Bea Romer, Colorado first lady who championed state-funded preschool, dies at 93
- Taylor Swift Eras Archive site launches on singer's 35th birthday. What is it?
- Child poverty in the US jumped and income declined in 2022 as coronavirus pandemic benefits ended
Ranking
- Sonya Massey's father decries possible release of former deputy charged with her death
- How umami overcame discrimination and took its place as the 5th taste
- El Chapo's wife set to be released from halfway house following prison sentence
- Florida law restricting transgender adult care can be enforced while challenged in court
- In ‘Nickel Boys,’ striving for a new way to see
- 2023 MTV VMAs: See All the Stars Arrive on the Red Carpet
- Doja Cat Frees the Nipple in Sexy Spiderweb Look at the 2023 MTV VMAs
- Missouri clinic halts transgender care for minors in wake of new state law
Recommendation
The Best Stocking Stuffers Under $25
'The streak is now broken': US poverty rate over time shows spike in 2022 levels
How an extramarital affair factors into Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial
With European countries hungry for workers, more Ukrainians are choosing Germany over Poland
John Galliano out at Maison Margiela, capping year of fashion designer musical chairs
6 people shot dead in seaside town near Athens, Greece
McCarthy directs House panel to open Biden impeachment inquiry
A new documentary reexamines the Louis CK scandal, 6 years later