Long before I launched SwimSwam, or The Swimmers’ Circle, I was an Olympic fanatic. The more obscure the sport, the more obsessed I was. As a kid, I would spend hours glued to the TV in Olympic summers watching canoeing, cycling, rowing, rhythmic gymnastics, handball, and whatever else the television fed me – in an era where we didn’t have the same on-demand choice as we do now.
I often tell people when they ask about working to cover the Olympics for SwimSwam, which is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, non-rights-holding Olympic media properties in the world. And my answer is this: “It’s very cool – except that it can cut into my time spent watching all of these other sports.”
If you’re a fanatic like me, then the schedule posted below is what will guide your life for the next two weeks. Designed for press, but useful to the public, it contains the minute-by-minute schedules for the 32 sporting disciplines at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
While the opening ceremonies are being held Friday, Olympic competition actually begins Wednesday across France in the men’s rugby sevens and men’s soccer tournaments. Thursday will see the kickoff of competition in handball and archery. Competition goes quiet on Friday for the sojourn down the Seine, and then begins in full force on Saturday with medal events in judo, fencing, road cycling, skateboarding, swimming, diving, rugby sevens, and shooting.
Either shooting or diving will award the first medals, depending on how close schedules come to their ascribed timelines.
Anyway, if you’re nuts like I am, here is your bible. Enjoy it.
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