Olympics: 10,500 athletes, 203 countries, 3 million bananas – A look at the Paris 2024 in numbers

The 2024 Paris Olympics is scheduled to start on July 26 later in the year. With the quadrennial games just over six months away, the statistics are already impressive: the budget has hit almost nine billion euros and one billion viewers are expected to watch the opening ceremony.

Here are some of the key numbers ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics:

10,500 athletes: Most of them will stay in the Olympic Village in suburban Saint-Denis.

329 events: The Paris Games offer 32 sports, including four newcomers: surfing (in distant Tahiti), sport climbing, breaking and skateboarding.

203 invited nations: These include the Refugee Team. Russian and Belarussian athletes will compete as neutrals.

8.8 billion euros: the current Games budget, although the total bill will not be known until after the Games. France’s national audit body estimates a total of 3 billion euros of public money could be spent on the Olympics.

15 million spectators: will attend the Olympics (July 26 to August 11) and Paralympic Games (August 28 to September 8), according to forecasts by the Paris tourist office, with around 12 percent, or two million coming from abroad, including 1.5 million for the Olympics, many of them British and American.

100,000 opening ceremony spectators: The number paying to sit in stands on river banks for the ceremony on the Seine....

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