The flame was lit at the ancient Olympia site in Greece, and the first torchbearer was Greek athlete and Tokyo Olympic gold medallist Stefanos.
Over the next 100 days, the Olympic torch will be relayed in Greece, mainland France and the French overseas departments, before arriving at the opening site of the Olympic Games on 26 July to light the cauldron at the opening site.
Paris has hosted the Summer Olympics twice in 1900 and 1924, and the 2024 Olympics will be the third time the event has come to Paris, and the first time in 100 years.
Every Olympic Games will leave a unique memory for spectators all over the world. What surprises will we see in Paris this time?
What are the surprises at the Paris Olympics?
The opening ceremony of each Olympic Games is a self-presentation of the host country to the world, and it is also a grand invitation to the world's audience.
In December 2021, the organizers of the Paris Summer Olympics announced that the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on July 26, 2024 will be held on the Seine.
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games will leave the stadium, and more than 10,000 athletes will travel along the river in 160 boats, and landmarks such as the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame Cathedral and the Grand Palais will be the decorations of the feast.
So shocking, so romantic, this groundbreaking plan has whetted everyone's appetite. If Paris can deliver on its promise, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games will be one of the most special and dazzling in the history of the Olympic Games.
Of course, the "most special" is also accompanied by high difficulty, and in recent days, French President Macron said: The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games does have a plan B, and there will be a plan C if it is not.
If Plan A is not realized, the opening ceremony will be moved to the Place de la Trocadero or the Stade de France, opposite the Eiffel Tower.
Most spectators must have hoped that the opening ceremony of the Olympics could actually be held on the Seine, but will this become a reality?
Of course, even if the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games does not take us to the beautiful scenery of Paris, we can still see the Games and the famous attractions of Paris in the following games.
Beach volleyball will be played under the Eiffel Tower, equestrian events will be played at the Palace of Versailles, fencing and taekwondo will be at the Grand Palais, and the Place de la Concorde will welcome BMX, skateboarding, breakdancing and 3x3 basketball......
When it comes to these relatively new events, we have to talk about the program settings of the Paris Olympics.
Paris 2024 will feature 32 events and 329 events, with breakdancing, skateboarding, rock climbing and surfing being the four new sports.
Everyone is familiar with these events, but they are newcomers to the Olympic arena. In particular, the breaking event is very curious, and China's Liu Qingyi has won a lot of honors in various international competitions, and she will be the focus of our attention in the breaking arena of the Paris Olympics.
For the Chinese audience, the opening ceremony and the new projects are certainly fascinating, but what we care about most is the performance of the Chinese athletes.
How many gold medals will they win, and who will make a name for themselves in Paris?
Chinese Legion, what are the highlights?
In the last Olympic Games, the Chinese sports delegation won a total of 89 medals with 38 golds, 32 silvers and 19 bronzes, ranking second in the gold medal list and medal table. The United States, ranked first, won only one more gold medal than us.
What will the Chinese athletes achieve this time?
As we all know, there was only a three-year gap between the last Tokyo Olympics and the current Paris Olympics. For professional athletes, the difference in one year is enough to make a lot of difference.
The Paris Olympic cycle is one year less than previous Olympic cycles, and the most immediate impact is that there may be fewer "newcomers" at this Olympics, and conversely, there will be more familiar faces at this Olympics than in previous Games.
Among the Chinese Legion, this is the case with the most stable "gold medal winners".
The Chinese diving dream team is led by Quan Hongchan and Chen Yuxi, and famous players such as Xie Sicheng and Wang Zongyuan are also the main force of the last Olympic Games. In the past three years, it has become a routine practice for the Chinese diving team to win all the gold medals in international competitions.
We won 7 of the 8 gold medals in the last Olympics (the men's doubles 10m platform missed the gold medal), and if nothing else, the Chinese diving team can still get a "perfect score or close to a perfect score" in Paris.
The performance of the Chinese table tennis team in the past three years has been similar to that of the Chinese diving team, and they have often won all the championships in major competitions.
The main lineup of national table tennis is not much different from three years ago, whether it is Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin and Ma Long of the men's team, or Sun Yingsha, Wang Manyu and Chen Meng of the women's team, they are all familiar star players as early as the last Olympic cycle.
Three years ago, we lost a mixed doubles gold medal, and we hope that the national table tennis can win it back this time!
Chen Yufei, Chen Qingchen/Jia Yifan, Zheng Siwei/Huang Yaqiong and others of the Chinese badminton team were the main forces of the last Olympic Games. Hou Zhihui, Li Fabin, Li Wenwen and others of the Chinese weightlifting team will once again hit the Olympic gold medal. Gong Lijiao, Xie Zhenye and other athletes of the Chinese track and field team will also set foot on the Olympic stage again.
Of course, not all of the Chinese teams in various projects are dominated by the lineup of the previous year.
For example, the Chinese shooting team, which has always undertaken the "heavy responsibility of the first gold", will have a number of noteworthy new stars on the stage this time.
Yang Qian, who shot our first gold medal in the last Olympics, was not selected for the Paris Olympics. Young players such as Huang Yuting, Han Jiayu, Sheng Lihao, and Du Linshu will become the new main force of the Chinese shooting team.
Huang Yuting, who was born in 2006, won 2 golds and 1 silver at the 2022 World Shooting Championships, and 3 golds at the Hangzhou Asian Games. In the shooting arena of the Paris Olympics, she has a good chance to become a superstar.
On the whole, the advantages of the Chinese Legion have not changed much compared with three years ago, and the number of gold medals we can theoretically win is probably about the same as the previous one.
If we can win more gold medals, the biggest variable is likely to come from swimming.
In the last Olympic Games, the Chinese swimming team won 3 gold medals, which is already a very outstanding result. But this time, the Chinese swimming team is likely to bring even greater surprises.
"Model worker" Zhang Yufei is still the leader of the Chinese swimming team, she still has the strength to win gold in the butterfly swimming event she is best at, and she is also the main force of the Chinese team in the relay event.
"Frog King" Qin Haiyang came out of nowhere in 2023, winning three breaststroke gold medals at the World Championships and breaking world or Asian records several times. If his fiery form continues to the Paris Olympics, it is likely that the Chinese swimming team's performance will take a leap forward.
Born in 2004, the teenager Pan Zhanle broke the world record in the men's 100m freestyle at the World Championships some time ago, and if he can win this gold medal at the Olympics, he will also have the opportunity to become a sports superstar.
In addition to the key gold medals, the performance of the Chinese team in the "three balls" project is also very interesting.
The Chinese women's basketball team was the runner-up in the last Women's Basketball World Cup, and their defeats against the Japanese women's basketball team in the Asian Cup and Asian Games were also exciting. In the Paris Olympics, the Chinese women's basketball team led by Han Xu and Li Meng has a good chance to impact the medals.
The Chinese women's volleyball team had a poor record in the last Olympic Games, and after Cai Bin took charge of Shuaiyin, the Chinese women's volleyball team has been in the reconstruction stage. They may not be the strongest team in this Olympic Games, but the Chinese women's volleyball team will always affect people's hearts.
Zhu Ting announced her return some time ago, which can make us have higher expectations for the Chinese women's volleyball team.
What are your expectations for the Paris Olympics?