During the Paris 2024 Olympics, seven new records were set in the men's athletic events. Meanwhile, there were five new records set in women's athletic events. As of 2024, the longest-standing record in athletics at the Olympics was set by the US' Bob Beamon in the Long Jump in 1968; this year saw an unusually high number of Olympic and World Records set in explosive, high-intensity events, as Mexico City's altitude benefitted anaerobic performances (while it hindered those aerobic events, such as distance running and swimming).

This timeline depicts U.S. household television ratings in the of the Summer Olympics opening ceremony from 1972 to 2016. The highest ratings belonged to the two Olympics which took place in the United States. The 1984 opening ceremony in Los Angeles earned a rating of 23.9 and the 1996 ceremony in Atlanta earned a rating of 23.6.

Number of Olympics attended and medals won by Pacific Island countries.

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This graph depicts the Olympic marketing revenues generated through ticketing from 1993 to 2016. Between 2013 and 2016, marketing revenues from ticketing amounted to 527 million U.S. dollars.

The first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 saw just 241 athletes feature. During the event, exclusively male athletes took part. Over the next 125 years, the overall number of competitors gradually climbed, along with the number of female athletes taking part. During the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the number of female Olympians peaked at 5,457, however, the share of women taking part in the Olympics hit a record high during the Paris 2024 Games, when near parity was achieved.

The Paris 2024 Olympic Games were scheduled to be the first time a modern Summer Olympics will have an equal share of male and female athletes competing. The first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 were exclusively for male competitors, and although some female events were introduced in Paris in 1900, the share of events was just 2.2 percent. Over the next century, the ratio of female to male events has gradually narrowed, and at a faster rate in recent decades, reaching almost 49 percent in Tokyo 2020. Not only has the overall volume of female athletes increased, the last decade has seen the introduction of several mixed events; these included mixed shooting events and both sprinting and swimming mixed relays.

As of 2024, the 28th and 29th editions of the Summer Olympics welcomed the highest number of participants, with a more than 11,000 for each of these events. In Paris, 10,500 athletes are expected to compete at the 329 medal events planned.

The statistic shows the share of female participants in the Olympic summer games from 1900 to 2020. In the 2016, 45 percent of participants in the Olympic Summer Games were women.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Olympic Media

For the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games, there will be 32 sports on display. Meanwhile, the Paralympic Games are set to feature 22 sports.

Financial overview and grant giving statistics of Maine Special Olympics

The Summer Olympics is one of the biggest sporting events on the calendar. Occurring every four years, the Olympics see the world's best athletes in a variety of disciplines compete for a coveted Olympic medal. During a ********** survey in the United States, the sport that most respondents were interested in watching was gymnastics, while the sport with the least amount of interest was rugby sevens.

The statistic depicts the number of participants/athletes at the Winter Olympic Games from 1924 to 2022. At the 2010 Winter olympic Games in Vancouver 1,522 male athletes particpated in the competitions.

The upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games will host a total *** events. Meanwhile, the Paralympics will feature *** events.

Millions of sports fans across the world tune into the Olympics, including younger generations who might be inspired by the event to participate in sports themselves. In a survey among adults worldwide in 2021, ** percent of all respondents surveyed stated that they believed the Olympics inspired the next generation to participate in sports. China and Turkey were the countries with the highest level of agreement that the Olympics inspired sports participation.

The Summer Olympics is one of the biggest sporting events on the calendar. Occurring every four years, the Olympics see the world's best athletes in a variety of disciplines compete for a coveted Olympic medal. During a March 2021 survey in the United States, ** percent of respondents aged 18 to 24 stated that they were very interested in the Summer Olympics.

The upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympics Games are scheduled to feature nearly ** thousand athletes. Most of these will be competing in the Olympics, while ***** will be taking part in the Paralympics.

The Summer Olympics is one of the biggest sporting events on the calendar. Occurring every four years, the Olympics see the world's best athletes in a variety of disciplines compete for a coveted Olympic medal. During a March 2021 survey in the United States, ** percent of Hispanic respondents stated that they were very interested in the Summer Olympics.

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 in 29 Olympic Games. More than one thousand of these were gold, with almost 900 silver medals, and nearly 800 bronze medals. The second most successful team in Summer Olympic history was the Soviet Union**, who took home 440 golds and more than 1,100 total medals in ten Olympic Games between 1952 and 1992. When the total medal hauls of the Soviet Union, Russia and the Russian Empire are combined, they still fall short of the U.S. tally by over one thousand medals. Meanwhile, Great Britain sat in fifth place, with 299 golds and 980 medals in total. 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, such as Kenya, Jamaica, and particularly China. Although China has competed in just 12 Summer Olympics, they have the fifth most gold medals across a variety of events, despite only developing a significant Olympic presence in the 1980s. Athletes from African and Caribbean nations have also developed a more formidable presence since this time, by focusing their resources on specific sports; for example, Kenyan athletes have established a lasting legacy in distance running events, while Jamaicans have dominated sprinting events in recent years. Despite this increased investment, the past three Olympic Games have seen a record number of African-born athletes representing high-income countries in the Arabian Gulf; most notably, athletes born in Kenya and Ethiopia competing for Bahrain. The influence of money, politics and drugs As mentioned above, European and Anglophone countries have dominated the medals tables in the past; this is because they had the financial resources to send athletes around the world to compete, and, until 1964, the host cities were always in these countries, which caused financial and logistical difficulties for African, Asian and Latin American countries. Financial difficulties have caused some countries to refuse invitations to the Olympics as recently as the 1980s, for example, many African and Latin American countries joined in the U.S.-led boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games (due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan), saving face by citing the boycott and not financial problems as the reason. This boycott also contributed to the Soviet Union and East Germany's high medal tally, as both nations took over sixty percent of all available gold medals. In retaliation, the Soviet Union led a boycott of the following Games in Los Angeles, opening the way for the United States to win almost half of all available golds in 1984. Recent years have seen doping scandals replace financial and political factors as the main external-influence on the medals table. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was founded by the International Olympic Committee in 1999, to combat the increasing use of performance-enhancing substances in sports. Since then, it has had a major impact on the Olympic medal table, and has helped rescind and redistribute more than one hundred Olympic medals. Athletes from Russia and former-Soviet countries have been particularly affected by these measures, which follows a legacy of state-sponsored doping programs dating back to the 1980s. In 2019, WADA banned all Russian athletes from the 2020 Games in Tokyo due to yet another state-sponsored doping scandal; athletes from Russia could only compete if they have been cleared by WADA prior to the games, while representing the Russian Olympic Committee, rather than the country itself. Paris 2024 was also shadowed by the issue of doping, with some delegations criticizing WADA for clearing 11 Chinese swimmers to participate in the Games, despite testing for a banned substance in 2021.

In the history of the Summer Olympics, the share of events for women athletes has grown gradually; from no events at all in 1896, to a 51.3 percent share in 2020. Growth was gradual and slow, crossing the 25 percent mark in 1984, and exceeding 50 percent in 2020. It is important to note, however, that a number of these events are mixed, for both male and female competitors, and the total number of single-gender events remains slightly higher for men. The majority of sports have mirrored events for male and female competitors, and there had been an increased number of mixed events in recent years, with a particularly high number of mixed events added in Tokyo 2020.