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The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad and branded as Paris 2024, is an international multi-sport event taking place from 24 July to 11 August 2024 in France, with the opening ceremony having taken place on 26 July. Paris is the host city, with events held in 16 additional cities spread across Metropolitan France, and one subsite in Tahiti, French Polynesia.
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Deadpool & Wolverine is a 2024 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Deadpool and Wolverine, produced by Marvel Studios, Maximum Effort, and 21 Laps Entertainment and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the 34th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the sequel to Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018).
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Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky ( lə-DEH-kee; born March 17, 1997) is an American competitive swimmer. She has won eight Olympic gold medals and 21 world championship gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer. She has won a world record 16 individual gold medals at the World Aquatics Championships.
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Sunisa "Suni" Lee (née Phabsomphou; born March 9, 2003) is an American artistic gymnast. Lee is the 2020 Olympic all-around champion and uneven bars bronze medalist, the 2019 world championship silver medalist on the floor and bronze medalist on uneven bars. She was a member of the teams that won gold at the 2019 World Championships and silver at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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MyKayla Brooke Skinner Harmer (born December 9, 1996) is an American former artistic gymnast. She was the 2020 Olympic vault silver medalist, competing as an individual, and was an alternate for the 2016 Olympic team. Skinner competed at the 2014 World Championships, where she contributed to the U.S. team's gold medal, also winning an individual bronze medal on vault.
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Jonathan James Owens (born July 22, 1995) is an American football safety for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Missouri Western, and signed with the Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted free agent in 2018. He has also played for the Houston Texans and Green Bay Packers.
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Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985) is an American former competitive swimmer. He is the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time with a total of 28 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (23), Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic medals in individual events (16).
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Alexander Amos Yee (born 18 February 1998) is a British professional triathlete and distance runner. He won the gold medal in the Men's Triathlon at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the silver medal in the same event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the gold medal in the Triathlon Mixed Relay at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Saturday 31 July 2021.
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Jordan Lucella Elizabeth Chiles (born April 15, 2001) is an American artistic gymnast. Chiles won a gold medal with the United States women's national gymnastics team in the 2024 Olympics in Paris for the Women's Artistic Team All-Around competition, following up on her silver medal in the same team event during the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo.
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Donald Jasper Harris, OM (born August 23, 1938) is a Jamaican-American economist and professor emeritus at Stanford University, known for applying post-Keynesian ideas to development economics. He is the father of Kamala Harris, vice president of the United States, and of Maya Harris, lawyer and political commentator.
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India at the 2024 Summer Olympics
India is competing in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, being held between 26 July and 11 August 2024. The country made its debut in the 1900 Summer Olympics. Indian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games since 1920 and this edition of the Games marked the nation's 26th appearance at the Summer Olympics.
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Hamas, an acronym of its official name, Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah, lit. 'Islamic Resistance Movement'), is a Palestinian Sunni Islamist political and military movement governing parts of the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip since 2007.
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Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh
On 31 July 2024, Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, was assassinated after attending the inauguration ceremony for Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian in his residence in Tehran, Iran, according to Iranian and Hamas officials. An Iranian bodyguard was also killed. The cause of Haniyeh's death is under investigation by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (Koinē Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Θεά Φιλοπάτωρ lit. 'Cleopatra father-loving goddess'; 70/69 BC – 10 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great.
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The following notable deaths occurred in 2024. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and reference.
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All-time Olympic Games medal table
The all-time medal table for all Olympic Games from 1896 to 2022, including Summer Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, and a combined total of both, is tabulated below. These Olympic medal counts do not include the 1906 Intercalated Games which are no longer recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as official Games.
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2024 Summer Olympics medal table
The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, is an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Guatemala won its first Olympic gold medal.
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Daniel Wiffen (born 14 July 2001) is an Irish swimmer who competes at the Olympic Games, world championships and European championships for Ireland and at the Commonwealth Games for Northern Ireland. He is the Olympic and world champion at 800 metres. Wiffen won gold at the men's 800 metre freestyle final at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, setting an Olympic record time of 7:38. 19.
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Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix (; born 11 September 2004) is a British professional diver. In her breakthrough year of 2022, she became a World junior, two-time European senior, two-time Commonwealth Games and two-time national senior champion across 10 metre platform and 10 metre synchronised platform events, as well as a World senior medallist in the team event.
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Project 2025, also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project, is a proposed plan published by the Heritage Foundation, which aims to promote conservative and right-wing policies to reshape the United States federal government and consolidate executive power should Donald Trump win the 2024 presidential election.
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YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google. Accessible worldwide, YouTube was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States, it is the second most visited website in the world, after Google Search.
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Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The badminton tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run from 27 July to 5 August at Porte de la Chapelle Arena. A total of 172 badminton players, with an equal distribution between men and women, will compete across five medal events (two per gender and a mixed) at these Games, the exact same number as those in the previous editions.
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Fred Sirieix (pronounced [siʁjɛks], see-ree-ecks; born 27 January 1972) is a French maître d'hôtel best known for appearing on Channel 4's First Dates, and BBC Two's Million Pound Menu. Sirieix grew up in Limoges, France and trained to work in front of house in a Michelin-starred restaurant in France before working at La Tante Claire in London.
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List of Olympic Games host cities
This is a list of host cities of the Olympic Games, both summer and winter, since the modern Olympics began in 1896. Since then, summer and winter games have usually celebrated a four-year period known as an Olympiad; summer and winter games normally held in staggered even years. There have been 30 Summer Olympic Games held in 21 cities, and 24 Winter Olympic Games held in 21 cities.
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Shyamala Gopalan (December 7, 1938 – February 11, 2009) was a biomedical scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, whose work in isolating and characterizing the progesterone receptor gene has stimulated advances in breast biology and oncology. She was the mother of Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris and Maya Harris, a lawyer and political commentator.
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Gabrielle Christina Victoria Douglas (born December 31, 1995) is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2012 Olympic all-around champion and the 2015 World all-around silver medalist. She was a member of the gold-winning teams at both the 2012 and the 2016 Summer Olympics, dubbed the "Fierce Five" and the "Final Five" by the media, respectively.
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House of the Dragon is an American fantasy drama television series created by George R. R. Martin and Ryan Condal for HBO. A prequel to Game of Thrones (2011–2019), it is the second television series in Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire franchise. Condal and Miguel Sapochnik served as the showrunners for the first season.
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Yahya Ibrahim Hassan Sinwar (Arabic: يحيى ابراهيم حسن السنوار, romanized: Yaḥyá Ibrāhīm Ḥassān al-Sanwār; born 29 October 1962), better known as Yahya Sinwar, is a Palestinian politician who has been leader of Hamas within the Gaza Strip since 2017. Hamas is the Sunni Islamist political and military organization that rules the Gaza Strip.
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Ilona Maher (August 12, 1996) is an American rugby union player. She debuted for the United States women's national rugby union team against Japan in 2018, and represented the United States in rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. As a member of US women's national rugby sevens team, she won a bronze medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.
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Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's singles
The men's singles badminton tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics will take place from 27 July to 5 August 2024 at the Porte de la Chapelle Arena at Paris. A total of 41 players from 36 nations are expected to compete at the tournament.
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Joshua David Shapiro (born June 20, 1973) is an American lawyer and politician serving since 2023 as the 48th governor of Pennsylvania. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 50th attorney general of Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2023 and on the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners from 2012 to 2017.
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. xxx (pronounced "dot triple-ecks" or "dot ecks ecks ecks") is a sponsored top-level domain (sTLD) intended as a voluntary option for pornographic sites on the Internet. The sponsoring organization is the International Foundation for Online Responsibility (IFFOR). The registry is operated by ICM Registry LLC. The ICANN Board voted to approve the sTLD on 18 March 2011.
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Swimming at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The swimming competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run from 27 July to 9 August 2024. Pool events (27 July to 4 August) will occur at the Paris La Défense Arena, with the two-day marathon swimming (8 to 9 August) staged at Pont Alexandre III through the Seine River.
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The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and officially branded as Tokyo 2020, were an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July 2021. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 7 September 2013.
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Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will be contested in three categories: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampolining. The artistic (27 July to 5 August) and trampoline (2 August) events will occur at the Bercy Arena, with the rhythmic events staged at Porte de La Chapelle Arena from 8 to 10 August.
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Twisters is a 2024 American disaster film directed by Lee Isaac Chung from a screenplay by Mark L. Smith, based on a story by Joseph Kosinski. Serving as a standalone sequel to Twister (1996), the film stars Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, and Sasha Lane. Its story follows clashing groups of storm chasers who investigate a tornado outbreak in Oklahoma.
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Thomas Robert Daley (born 21 May 1994) is a English diver and television personality. Specialising in multiple events, he is an Olympic gold medallist in the men's synchronised 10-metre platform event at the 2020 Olympics and double world champion in the FINA 10-metre platform event, winning in 2009 at the age of fifteen, and again in 2017.
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Nicolás Maduro Moros (Spanish: [nikoˈlas maˈðuɾo ˈmoɾos] ; born 23 November 1962) is a Venezuelan politician who has served as President of Venezuela since 2013. Beginning his working life as a bus driver, Maduro rose to become a trade union leader before being elected to the National Assembly in 2000.
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Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's singles
The men's singles tennis event at the 2024 Summer Olympics is taking place from 27 July to 4 August 2024 at the Stade Roland Garros, in Paris, France. There will be 64 players from 27 nations. Alexander Zverev is the defending gold medalist from 2020.
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Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The tennis tournaments at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run from 27 July to 4 August at the Stade Roland Garros, featuring a total of 172 players across five medal events: singles and doubles for both men and women and mixed doubles.
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Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg ( BOO-tij-əj; born January 19, 1982) is an American politician and former naval officer who is serving as the 19th United States secretary of transportation. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana, from 2012 to 2020, which earned him the nickname "Mayor Pete".
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India first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900, with a lone athlete Norman Pritchard winning two medals – both silver – in athletics and became the first Asian nation to win an Olympic medal. The nation first sent a team to the Summer Olympic Games in 1920 and has participated in every Summer Games since then. India has also competed at several Winter Olympic Games beginning in 1964.
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Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump received a Bachelor of Science in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1968. His father named him president of his real estate business in 1971.
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Masoud Pezeshkian (Persian: مسعود پزشکیان, pronounced [mæsʔˈuːd pezeʃkiːˈjɒːn]; born 29 September 1954) is an Iranian politician and cardiac surgeon who has been the president of Iran since 28 July 2024. He previously represented Tabriz, Osku and Azarshahr electoral district in the Parliament of Iran, and served as its First Deputy Speaker from 2016 to 2020.
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Rebecca Adlington (born 17 February 1989) is an English former competitive swimmer who specialised in freestyle events in international competition. She won two gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 400-metre freestyle and 800-metre freestyle, breaking the 19-year-old world record of Janet Evans in the 800-metre final.
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Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics
The football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics is taking place from 24 July to 10 August 2024 in France. The draw took place in Paris on 20 March 2024. In addition to the Olympic host city of Paris, matches are also played in Bordeaux, Décines-Charpieu (near Lyon), Marseille, Nantes, Nice and Saint-Étienne.
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Blake Ellender Lively (born August 25, 1987) is an American actress. Born in Los Angeles, Lively is the daughter of actor Ernie Lively, and made her professional debut in his directorial project Sandman (1998). She had her breakthrough playing Bridget Vreeland in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) and its 2008 sequel, to commercial success.
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Steven van de Velde (born 8 August 1994) is a Dutch beach volleyball player. He was convicted of child rape in 2016; in 2014, while van de Velde was 19, he had sexual intercourse with a 12 year-old girl after he gave her alcohol. He has qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics, with the Dutch Olympic Committee standing by their nomination.
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Lawrence Gerard Nassar (born August 16, 1963) is an American serial child rapist and former family medicine physician. For 18 years, he was the team doctor of the United States women's national gymnastics team, where he used his position to exploit and sexually assault hundreds of young athletes as part of the largest sexual abuse scandal in sports history.
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2024 United States presidential election
The 2024 United States presidential election will be the 60th quadrennial presidential election, set to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Voters in each state and the District of Columbia will choose a slate of electors to the U.S. Electoral College, who will then elect a president and vice president for a term of four years.
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Football at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament
The women's football tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics is held from 25 July to 10 August 2024. It is the eighth edition of the women's Olympic football tournament. Together with the men's competition, the 2024 Summer Olympics football tournament is held at seven stadiums in seven cities in France.
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Kamala Harris Harris was formerly the junior United States senator from California, and prior to her election to the Senate, she served as the 32nd attorney general of California. Her family includes several members who are notable in politics and academia. Harris's maternal ancestry comes from Tamil Nadu, India.
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2020 Summer Olympics medal table
The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo, Japan, from 23 July to 8 August 2021. The Games were postponed by one year as part of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports.
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The English Defence League (EDL) are a far-right, Islamophobic organisation in England. A social movement and pressure group that employs street demonstrations as its main tactic, the EDL presents itself as a single-issue movement opposed to Islamism and Islamic extremism, although its rhetoric and actions target Islam and Muslims more widely.
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Shannon Lee Miller (born March 10, 1977) is an American former artistic gymnast. She was the 1993 and 1994 world all-around champion, the 1992 Summer Olympics all-around silver medallist, the 1996 Olympic balance beam champion, the 1995 Pan American Games all-around champion, and a member of the gold medal-winning Magnificent Seven team at the 1996 Olympics.
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Mark Edward Kelly (born February 21, 1964) is an American politician, former astronaut, and United States Navy Captain who has been the junior United States senator from Arizona since 2020. A member of the Democratic Party, he was elected in the special election held following the death of Senator John McCain, defeating incumbent Republican Martha McSally.
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South Sudan men's national basketball team
The South Sudan men's national basketball team is the national basketball team representing South Sudan. Its official name is South Sudan Basketball Federation. It was established in May 2011, and became a member of FIBA in December 2013.
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Deadpool is a 2016 American superhero film directed by Tim Miller, in his directorial debut, and written by Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. Based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name and distributed by 20th Century Fox, it is a spin-off of the X-Men film series and its overall eighth installment.
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Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's singles
The women's singles badminton tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics will take place from 27 July to 5 August 2024 at the Porte de la Chapelle Arena at Paris. A total of 41 players from 36 nations are expected to compete at the tournament.
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Timothy James Walz ( WAWLZ; born April 6, 1964) is an American politician, former U.S. Army non-commissioned officer, and retired educator who has served since 2019 as the 41st governor of Minnesota. A member of the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL), he was a member of the United States House of Representatives representing Minnesota's 1st congressional district from 2007 to 2019.
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Douglas Craig Emhoff (born October 13, 1964) is an American lawyer who is the second gentleman of the United States. He is married to the 49th vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris. As the first husband of a vice president, Emhoff is the first second gentleman in American federal history.
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Vanessa Nuala Kirby (born 18 April 1988) is an English actress. She made her professional acting debut on stage, with acclaimed performances in the plays All My Sons (2010), A Midsummer Night's Dream (2010), Women Beware Women (2011), Three Sisters (2012), and as Stella Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (2014).
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Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's singles
The women's singles tennis event at the 2024 Summer Olympics is scheduled to take place from 27 July to 3 August 2024 at the Stade Roland Garros, in Paris, France. There will be 64 players from 28 nations. Belinda Bencic was the reigning gold medalist who won in 2021, but she was on maternity leave.
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Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's doubles
The men's doubles badminton tournament at the 2024 Summer Olympics will take place from 27 July to 5 August 2024 at the Porte de la Chapelle Arena at Paris. A total of 34 players from 15 nations are expected to compete at the tournament.
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An armed conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups has been taking place chiefly in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel since 7 October 2023. The fifth war of the Gaza–Israel conflict since 2008, it has been the deadliest for Palestinians in the entire Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and the most significant military engagement in the region since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
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Trap is a 2024 American psychological thriller film written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan and starring Josh Hartnett, Ariel Donoghue, Saleka Shyamalan, Hayley Mills, and Alison Pill. Its plot follows a serial killer evading a large presence of police officers while attending a pop music star's concert with his daughter.
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Kalki 2898 AD (pronounced [kə. l. kɪ]) is a 2024 Indian Telugu-language epic science fiction film directed by Nag Ashwin and produced by Vyjayanthi Movies. The film stars Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal Haasan, Prabhas, Deepika Padukone and Disha Patani. Inspired by Hindu scriptures, it is the first installment in a planned Kalki Cinematic Universe.
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List of Marvel Cinematic Universe films
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films are a series of American superhero films produced by Marvel Studios based on characters that appear in publications by Marvel Comics. The MCU is the shared universe in which all of the films are set.
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2024 Venezuelan presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Venezuela on 28 July 2024 to choose a president for a six-year term beginning on 10 January 2025. The contentious election occurred in a context where the incumbent Maduro administration controlled all power and repressed the political opposition.
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Pan Zhanle (Chinese: 潘展乐, born 4 August 2004) is a Chinese freestyle swimmer and holder of the 100m freestyle world record. On 16 February 2024, he won the 100 metre freestyle at the 2024 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. A few days before, he became the world record holder in the 100 metre freestyle with a time of 46. 80.
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Onyeka Onwenu (31 January 1952 – 30 July 2024) was a Nigerian singer/songwriter, actress, human rights and social activist, journalist, politician, and former X Factor series judge. Dubbed the "Elegant Stallion" due to her significant impact on African culture and entertainment, Onwenu was a former chairperson of the Imo State Council for Arts and Culture.
