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Okay, let’s get this started! First off, a note that’s a citywide opening ceremony seems all but confirmed: Paris 2024 to reveal city-centre Opening Ceremony locations by "end of the year"

Still very early, but the planning has started. First team announcement has been made: Cycling great Anna Meares to lead Australian Olympic team at Paris 2024 Games Two-time gold medallist Anna Meares will return to the Olympic arena after being appointed Australia's chef de mission for the 2024 Games in Paris.

As of exactly the moment this post is being written, Raí just ended his run with the olympic torch in Versailles. I feel this is the best time to start some conversation about my nation at the games, hopefully with the other brazilian members of this board. We are going with around 273 athletes, less than Tokyo, but mostly because the football boys decided to lose to Argentina at that pre-olympic while playing like a corpse, gosh, what a disaster! About what we will do in Paris however; we start with our Football girls, who indeed are the a-team, vs Nigeria, followed by the Handball girls later. We have strong names in Surfing(Medina, Weston-Webb, Toledo and others), Athletics (Alisson dos Santos, to name one), Canoe(Izaquias and more), Andrade and the rest of the team in Artistic Gymnastics, Beach Volley, Indoor Volley, and of course, SKATEBOARDING!! The entire team here is good to take a look at! Also, our Rytmic Gymnasts are really going to medal contention too. Bia can show up in Tennis, Cunha are looking for a repeat gold in Open Water Swimming, Table Tennis is good to take a look too(Calderano, to also mention here). And this isn't the entire delegation, for sure! Some of our athletes are already arriving in France to prepare, others are already in the village if i recall correctly. Meanwhile, Brazilian olympic twitter has been engulfed in a discourse caused by the looks of our OC look, which was compared to a evangelical dress. Yeah. Paris é logo ali!

Today we had the draw for the two tournaments happening in Paris, direct from the Paris 2024 headquarters. Note for the boys; AFC teams (asia) will come from the U-23 Asian Cup in Qatar, it starts mid April. Top 3 qualify directly, fourth will play a Intercontinental Play-off against an African team, Guinea. I'm unsure if they will pull an ranking thing to rank the 3 Asian teams to assign the teams as AFC 1,2 or 3 or if it will be according to tournament placings in Qatar. Now, Note for the girls; CAF (Africa) uses a knockout cup system to determine their Women's Olympic Qualifers. We are into the last stage, so who each of the CAF numbers are is known. CAF 1 is the winner of the tie between Nigeria and South Africa, and CAF 2 is the winner between Zambia and Morroco. My country girls are going to a wild ride in this group, oh my god... At least they qualified though. (Looking at you u-23 boys!) I wished for some geopolitical bangers in the men's draw, just to add an extra spice, but alas! Well, if Iran places forth and beats Gambia, just maybe... Seriously however, we can only guess the actual strength of each group until we get Asia sorted out. Each group has a literal continent-sized hole, one who cannot be filled so we can make a prediction until the other tournament even starts. The women's however? Totally the opposite. Group A has a big spice factor, in particular in the race for second or third. (renember that their tournament does have the two best thirds qualifying to the quarter finals.) France will get a home boost to first, but Canada and Colombia will make a war for that second place. Group B, B of death: USA, Australia and Germany in the same place, what could go wrong! And with one of Zambia or Morroco to join them, this shall be very interesting. Group C, group of revenge. Spain will have a chance to avenge their 4-0 defeat to Japan in the World Cup that they won in the end, in the first matchday to boot. Nigeria or South Africa will join Brasil on their first match as well; the overall picture in this group is similar to group A, but with a caveat: there will be 3 contenders for that second slot instead of 2...assuming Spain doesn't lose to the Nadeshiko again. Might be a very volatile group.

This is a bit belated, but it seems the issues regarding the Teahupo’o venue and the judging tower have been resolved. The answer - a smaller aluminium tower. Revised Teahupo’o Olympic Judging Tower Backed by French Polynesian President Just on four months to go, though. They beter get cracking on building that thing!

The Paris 2024 Olympic Village has had mixed reviews but it appears to have all that is required judging from various social media posts made from within it. Some of the issues raised, rightly or wrongly, is that there is allegedly not enough protein in meals available and too much of a focus on plant based dining causing some to bring their own meals into the OV. Also some USA athletes have complained there’s not enough bathrooms with some moving into hotels. The dating/hookup app Grindr is also blocked in the Olympic Village but I cant see this being too much of a problem with lots of socialising spaces available for those wanting to meet up. I’m not sure if Tinder is also blocked? Grindr blocked in the Olympic Village

We got today, along with the ignition of the olympic torch (the flame itself is from the day before because it was cloudy today in Greece), the draw for Handball! Look at the fun stuff right here, i think handball especialists can infer better on the relative strenghts of every group but i as a layman can feel that those must be tight. Denmark, Norway, Hungary and France with Egypt and Argentina at the same group for the boys. My Brasil girls will face off Spain, Netherlands, Hungary, France and (in a nice lusophone touch) Angola. France choose their groups in each tournament, by the way, so any shortcomings will absolutely be their fault. Gotta love the Olympic 6-team group formats, isnt it?

I think it’s clear this is a pretty divisive topic among GamesBidders. It seems you either love the idea or hate it. But which side has the edge? It’s not going to change the ceremony, it’s going ahead on the Seine bar events we don’t want to even think about. But if you had your druthers, and could have influenced M. Estanguet seven years ago, what would you have told him to do? Pour moi, I’ve never made any bones about the fact I love the idea. Really looking forward to see it. For one, it might even mean I actually watch the Parade of Athletes, rather than use it to shower, go out and shop or get breakfast, and still get back in time to see Zambia and Zimbabwe march in.

This is probably going to be one of the most debated issues over the next year leading to Paris 2024, so worthwhile starting its own thread. Hidalgo’s now come out against any Russian presence at Paris. She acknowledges it’s ultimately the IOC’s decision, but makes her preference clear: No Russian team at 2024 Olympic Games while Ukraine invasion continues, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo says

Do you think the IOC should choose both Los Angeles and Paris to host the 2024 and 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games when it convenes in September 2017? (Note: This question is not asking which city in which year, only what you think about both years being awarded at the September 2017 session)

Which City do you support to win the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Bid when the IOC votes in September 2017? Why did you make that choice? Note: This poll has been restarted since the withdrawal of Budapest, please re-vote if you voted previously.