Lausanne, Switzerland, December 7, 2020: The IOC Executive Board on Monday, December 7 approved the event programme and athlete quotas for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 based on gender equality and youth.
Skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing – which are already on the Tokyo 2020 programme – as well as breaking (break dancing) were confirmed as additional sports proposed by the Paris 2024 Organising Committee. Breaking was a big success at the Youth Olympic Games 2018 in Buenos Aires.
The main features of Paris 2024’s Olympic programme include:
*Exactly 50 per cent male and female participation, following on from the gender equality already achieved for Tokyo 2020, which will have 48.8 per cent female participation. Athletics, boxing and cycling will reach full gender equality for the first time, meaning 28 of the 32 sports will be fully gender balanced.
*Growth of mixed gender events, from 18 to 22, compared to Tokyo 2020.
*Reduction in the overall athlete quota (including all new sports) from 11,092 to exactly 10,500.
*Reduction in the overall number of events from 339 to 329.
IOC President Thomas Bach said: “With this programme, we are making the Olympic Games Paris 2024 fit for the post-corona world. We are further reducing the cost and complexity of hosting the Games. While we will achieve gender equality already at the upcoming Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, we will see, for the first time in Olympic history, the participation of the exact same number of female athletes as male athletes. There is also a strong focus on youth.”
The highest quota reduction was made in weightlifting, which also had four events removed from the programme. The sport now has five events per gender, with a quota of 120 athletes, compared to 196 in Tokyo and 260 at Rio 2016.
The second highest reduction was made in boxing. However, there will be full gender equality in the seven men’s and six women’s events.
The following eight events have been included on the programme, replacing existing events, in each case to ensure no increases in event numbers:
*1 new mixed-gender event (race walk or track) in athletics to replace the men’s 50km race walk. Athletics will still have 48 events.
*1 new women’s weight class in boxing to replace 1 men’s weight class
*2 extreme canoe slalom events to replace 2 canoe sprint events
*3 new mixed events in sailing (including mixed kiteboarding and mixed 470 - two-person dinghy) to replace 1 men’s and 1 women’s 470 - two-person dinghy events and the men’s Finn - one-person dinghy
*1 new skeet mixed team event in shooting to replace the trap mixed team event.
Source: www.olympic.org