Ahead of the competition, the total spending for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was projected to be 9.1 billion U.S. dollars. This was the lowest budget of a Summer Olympics since 2000, when 8.1 billion U.S. dollars were spent on the Sydney Olympics. The highest level of spending on an Olympics since 1996 was on Beijing 2008, which cost a staggering 52.7 billion U.S. dollars. How was the budget for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games distributed? The total budget for the Paris 2024 Games was divided almost evenly between infrastructure and operating expenses. In terms of the organizational budget, the largest portion, over 1.2 billion euros, was anticipated to come from ticket sales, followed by revenue from partnerships, and contributions from the International Olympic Committee (IOC). How many events were featured at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games? The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris showcased 32 different sports. Among the various disciplines represented at the Olympics, the sport with the most events was aquatics, followed closely by athletics with a total of 48 events, and cycling in third. In terms of ticket prices, athletics, basketball, and swimming events were the most expensive, with prices nearing 1000 euros.

As of 2024, the athlete with the most gold medals won at the Summer Olympic Games was swimming sensation Michael Phelps, with a staggering 23 golds to his name. Meanwhile, there were six Olympians with six gold medals, two of whom reached the milestone during the Paris 2024 Olympics - swimmers Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel. Which country has won the most Olympic medals as of 2024? As of 2024, the United States held the record for the most Olympic medals won by country, with a total of 2,761 medals earned across 29 Olympic Games. The U.S. also led in gold medals, having won over 1,100. Russia and Germany followed in the medal count. Regarding athlete participation in the Summer Olympics from 1896 to 2024, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics saw the highest number of competitors, with over 11,300 athletes. In comparison, an estimated 10,500 athletes competed in the 2024 Paris Olympics. How many people in the U.S. watch the Olympics? The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were especially popular in the United States, where viewership for the opening ceremony surpassed 28 million U.S. TV viewers. This made it the most-watched Summer Olympics opening ceremony since 2012, when a record 40.7 million viewers tuned in. This interest was sustained throughout the 2024 Paris Games, with the average TV audience in the U.S. reaching 31.3 million. One of the standout moments was the men's basketball final between Team USA and France, which drew an average of 19.5 million viewers as the U.S. clinched the gold medal.

Ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics, the budget from organizing the Games was expected to total close to four billion euros. The largest share of this budget was forecast to come from ticketing, amounting to 1.24 billion euros. Meanwhile, partnerships were expected to account for 890 million euros in revenue.

During the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the average TV audience in the United States totaled 31.3 million across the total competition. One event that drew a particularly large viewership was the men's basketball final between Team USA and France, in which the U.S. won gold, with an average 19.5 million viewers.

At the Paris 2024 Olympics, the highest ticket prices for athletics, basketball, and swimming were all set at 980 euros. This was a higher threshold than any other sport at that year's Olympics. In contrast, the most affordable ticket prices were set for sports typically held outside, such as sailing, road cycling, and mountain biking, which all had a price threshold going up to 24 euros.

During the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the revenue generated from domestic sponsorships stood at 3.24 billion U.S. dollars. This was around four times larger than the figure recorded at Rio 2016.

In the history of the Summer Olympics, the United States has been the most successful nation ever, with a combined total of 2,761 medals won across 29 Olympic Games. More than one thousand of these were gold, with almost 900 silver medals, and nearly 800 bronze medals. Emerging nations While European and Anglophone nations have traditionally dominated the medals tables, recent decades have seen the emergence and increased participation from athletes representing developing nations. One nation in particular has enjoyed a great deal of success in recent years, with China having won over 700 medals in the Summer Olympics, despite only having taken part in 12 Games. How big of a problem is doping at the Olympics? In recent history, one of the biggest threats to the reputation of the Olympics has been the issue of doping. On record, the worst Olympics in terms of medals stripped came in 2008, when 50 medals in total were lost by disqualified athletes. Meanwhile, Russia ranked as the country with the highest number of Olympic medals stripped as of 2025.

Although the United States led the all-time Summer Olympics medal table, it was San Marino that had the highest medal count per capita as of 2024. With one silver and two bronze medals, and a population of fewer than 35,000 people, San Marino had won 89.36 medals per million people. When it came to gold medals, however, The Bahamas took the top spot, with 19.85 golds per million inhabitants. Olympic tradition and lower populations in the top ten With over 500 total medals, Hungary is the most successful nation to have never hosted the Summer Olympics. Unlike the Bahamas or Finland, Hungary's medal haul has been consistently high throughout Olympic history. Hungary has won a large proportion of its medals in fencing, swimming and canoeing events, and has excelled in pentathlon and water polo events. When it comes to gold medals per capita, Hungary was in second place as of 2024 with 19.41 medals per one million inhabitants. In addition to Finland, other Nordic countries have performed well at the Olympics on a per capita basis, as their high rate of participation over time and relatively low populations means that three of the top ten spots on this list are taken by Scandinavian countries. U.S., Soviet Union and China fall behind As mentioned previously, countries who have won the most medals overall do not have always the highest per-capita totals. For example, China had the third-most gold medals of all time, but, as China has the highest population in the world, this translates to just 0.21 golds per million people. The U.S. has won a total of 3.17 golds and nearly eight total medals per million people, while the Soviet Union won fewer than four medals per million people, based on its population in 1990.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics in Japan were attended by approximately 20 thousand spectators. Attendants were children who received specifically reserved tickets via school cooperation programs. Most of the competitions during the Olympics and Paralympics were held without spectators.

The Olympic marathon has been a permanent fixture in the men's roster since the inaugural Athens Games of 1896, while the women's event was first held 88 years later in Los Angeles. The Paris 2024 Olympics saw new records set in both the men's and women's marathon events, with Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia and Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands recording times of 2:06:25 and 2:22:55, respectively. Which country has been most successful in the Olympic marathon? Ethiopian athletes have enjoyed the most success in Olympic marathons, with men winning five golds; two of which came from Abebe Bikila in 1960 and 1964, who was the first athlete to win back-to-back golds (the only other athletes to do this were East Germany's Waldemar Cierpinski in 1976 and 1980, and Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge). Meanwhile, Ethiopian women have won two golds. Origins of the marathon In the Athens Olympics of 1896, the marathon was the most distinguished event of the tournament for the host nation, and winning it was the top priority. The inspiration for the marathon came from a Greek myth, where Pheidippides ran from the Battle of Marathon to Athens to deliver the news that Greece had successfully repelled the first Persian invasion in 490BCE. A route was created from the town of Marathon to the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, and was approximately 40 kilometers (25 miles) long. Athenian runner Spyridon Louis went on to win the inaugural Olympic marathon, and became a national hero in the process. It was not until the London Olympics in 1908 where the distance of 26 miles and 385 yards (42.195 km) would become the marathon standard, and the men's event is traditionally the final event of each Olympic Games.

During the Olympiad cycle from 2017-2020/21, which encompassed the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, revenue from ticketing totaled *** million U.S. dollars. This represented a substantial decrease from the previous two cycles, which was understandable considering attendance was restricted at Tokyo 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

This statistic shows the medal table for snowboard in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, sorted by country. The United States won a total of seven medals in snowboarding at the Winter Olympics in 2018 - four gold, two silver, and one bronze medal.

Field hockey became a Summer Olympic discipline for the first time in 1908 at the London Olympics. Since then, the Indian men's hockey team have won the gold medal a record eight times. During the last Summer Olympics in Paris in 2024, the Netherlands men's field hockey team claimed the gold medal for the third time in the country's history.

Field hockey became a Summer Olympic discipline for women for the first time in 1980 at the Moscow Olympics. Since then, the women's hockey teams from the Netherlands have won the gold medal a record five times. During the last Summer Olympics in Paris in 2024, the Netherlands women's field hockey team beat China in the gold medal match.

The relationship between sport, education and social class in Britain is extremely complex and variable across different sports and genders. This statistic presents the share of different educational structures attended by British professional athletes across a range of sporting disciplines. Men's cricket had the highest levels of privately educated professional athletes of the sports included within this statistic, with 43 percent of the English men's cricket team having received a private education. Female cricketers had the lowest rate of comprehensive attendance, with 35 percent having attended private schools. The educational backgrounds of British female rugby union internationals differ to those of the men. Where 37 percent of men's British rugby union internationals having attended private schools, with only 47 percent having attended a state comprehensive. The women's British rugby union internationals educational background was more in line with football but still double the national average, with 82 percent having attended comprehensive schools and 13 percent having received private education.
Football Men’s football has long been a game where professional players leave the education system at an early age, with the pathways to elite level participation largely through the club and league structures. Consequently male football professionals have the lowest rates of privately educated participants within this statistic. The differences between male and female football professionals provides an insight into the differing opportunities for financial reward. Although the school backgrounds were comparable between male and female football professionals, reflecting similar social groups playing the game at grassroots level. However, high university attendance amongst female football professionals is likely due to the lower levels of financial compensation in women’s sport. The England team at the 2019 Women’s Football World Cup is the first fully professional team the country has ever had, and the Scottish team still features many part-time players. Private Education Many of the sports within this statistic, particularly those with a history of amateur participation, include school or university competition as a step on the ladder to success. Sports which require expensive equipment or special facilities lead to a more socially exclusive participant base. Many private schools have sufficient funding to invest heavily in high quality indoor and outdoor facilities for cricket, rugby, hockey, rowing, cycling, sailing and equestrianism. Within these sports the pathway to elite level participation is heavily associated with school or university level participation Olympics The educational backgrounds of British Olympic medalists shown within this statistic is illustrates a complex relationship between the relationship between sport, education and social class in Britain. Within the international sporting tournaments, such as the Olympic Games, Team GB has historically excelled at ‘sitting down sports’, including rowing, cycling, sailing and equestrianism. These all involve specialized and frequently expensive equipment and facilities, and are sports historically associated with higher social classes. Funding has historically been targeted towards such sports, on the basis that they offer the best chance of medals. Whilst this has been a largely successful tactic with regards to international sporting accolades, it is at the expense of funding more widely played and accessible sports, potentially creating additional barriers to participation.

Number of volunteers accessing departmental training.