Artistic swimming Olympic in Paris in 2024: a sneak peek, the itinerary, and live streaming information
For the eleventh time, artistic swimming olympics will be included in the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024, and the competition is expected to be extremely exciting.
The sport will have two competitions: the team competition and the duet. The team competition will also feature an acrobatic routine, which is new for the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024, in addition to the free and technical routines.
The addition of males to the team competition is also novel as it has never been permitted at an Olympic Games.
The Olympics Aquatic Center will host competition from August 5–10. The team competition will take place on August 7 and the duets competition on August 10.
Artistic swimming olympics stars of the arts to watch in Paris in 2024
As one of the favorites for team and duet gold in Paris 2024, the People’s Republic of China is a powerful force in the world of artistic swimming. They won the silver medals in the team and duet competitions at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and they recently won the world championship in all three team disciplines in Doha 2024.
The nine competitors selected to the country’s Olympic squad are seasoned athletes, and the country has grown particularly strong over the last two years. In the sport, they’re aiming for their first Olympic medal.
Japan challenges Paris as a rival for the gold. They won bronze in the duet and team competition in Tokyo 2020 in front of their home fans, and they won silver in the team free routine and bronze in the team technical in the 2024 World Championships.
During the team competition in Doha 2024, the United States, Spain, and Ukraine also placed third, making them teams to watch in Paris.
For the first time in 26 years, Mexico is competing in the team tournament, and at the 2023 Pan American Games, they fulfilled their quota by defeating both the USA and Canada.
Artistic swimming olympics schedule in its entirety for the 2024 games
The Paris 2024 festival of artistic swimming is scheduled to take place from August 5 to August 10.
How to watch Paris 2024’s artistic swimming olympics live
Media rights holders have access to all of the activity from Paris 2024, including artistic swimming (MRHs).
MRHs include Discovery Eurosport throughout Europe, along with France Télévisions in France, ARD/ZDF in Germany, and BBC Sport in the United Kingdom. Globally, MRHs include Nine in Australia, Globo in Brazil, CBC in Canada, CCTV in the People’s Republic of China, Fuji TV/NHK/Nippon TV/TBS/TV Asahi/TV Tokyo in Japan, SKY NZ in New Zealand, SuperSport in South Africa, NBC in the United States, and Discovery Eurosport in South Africa.
Look through listings for your local broadcaster in other regions.
Men’s 100-meter final, Paris 2024 Olympics: Marcell Jacobs and Noah Lyles lead a packed field; when is the race and how can Australians watch live?
The men’s 100-meter Olympic competition in Paris in 2024 will take place over two days, beginning with the preliminary round and ending with the final.
Round 1 of the competition began on Saturday after the preliminary round. On Sunday, early on Monday morning Australian time, there will be a 100-meter final and a semi-final.
Australia will be able to watch the men’s 100-meter Olympic event in Paris in 2024 on TV and through live streaming.
Three semi-final races will kick off the second day’s events. There are nine sprinters per race. The top two in each heat and the next two fastest qualifiers from these will go to the final later in the day.
Lamont Marcell Jacobs of Italy, the reigning Olympic 100-meter champion, is among the competitors. Other noteworthy individuals include the top-ranked American in the world, Noah Lyles, who won the 200-meter bronze medal in Tokyo 2020, and the current world champion in both the 100- and 200-meter events.
The lineup is filled with Canadians Andre De Grasse, the reigning 200-meter champion and Tokyo bronze medallist, and Fred Kerley, the Tokyo 100-meter runner-up and 2022 world champion.
Kishane Thompson of Jamaica has the world record time of 9.77 seconds, which he recorded when winning the Olympic trials in Kingston. The second-fastest time of the season is held by Ferdinand Omanyala, the African record holder from Kenya.
After setting a season-best 9.81 in the London Diamond League last month, Noah Lyle stands in third place, followed by Jamaica’s Oblique Seville, who is only one hundredth off. This year, Marcell Jacobs’ greatest performance to date is a 9.92.
The world record time of 9.58 seconds, set at the 2009 World Athletics Championships in Berlin, and the Olympic record of 9.63 seconds in the 100 meters, both belong to Usain Bolt.
Australia entered two athletes, Joshua Azzopardi and Rohan Browning, in the 100-meter event for the 2024 Olympics in Paris. They both took part in the first round and lost.
In heat 2, Joshua Azzopardi finished fourth with a time of 10.20 seconds, and Rohan Browning finished sixth with a season-best time of 10.29 seconds in heat 6.
The only people who went to the semi-final were the top three in each heat and the next three fastest.
