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The 2024 Paris Olympics are underway! When globally renowned events like this take place, it is important for PR professionals to note the official AP style rules regarding words and phrases related to the event. Luckily, PRNEWS regularly publishes articles breaking down the AP style guidelines for these events. Here are some style tips to know when referencing the 2024 Paris Olympics: -The year should precede the host city and the word "Olympics." ("2024 Paris Olympics" not "Paris 2024 Olympics") -The word "Games" can be used to reference the Olympics in short form, but should always be capitalized. -"International Olympics Committee" can be referred to with the acronym "IOC," but the full name should be mentioned somewhere in the copy.    Check out the below article to learn more!

On the eve of the Olympics opening, here is my article on the new sport of breaking (aka breakdancing) and what to expect in Paris. Hope you enjoy reading it, learn something new and (most importantly) watch the breaking contest!

With just over a week until the #paris2024 Opening Ceremony (along the River Seine, no less), the summer of elite sport rolls on. Having recently done a spotlight on the legal issues that have dominated the lead-up to Paris, this second part is focussed on the contentious/regulatory matters that may well arise during the Games itself. In this article, I examine: ▶ Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter (re protest); ▶ Rule 40 of the Olympic Charter (re commercialisation of image); ▶ Disputes before the CAS Ad Hoc Division and CAS Anti-Doping Division (both of which are operating temporary offices in Paris); ▶ Other integrity issues (e.g. competition manipulation, illegal betting and so-called "technological" doping); and ▶ Ambush or parasitic marketing - the bane of "official" Olympic and Paralympic sponsors/partners. There is, of course, an element of crystal ball gazing in predicting what may go wrong, and the appeal of sport is often its unpredictability. However, if previous Olympiads are anything to go by, controversy is guaranteed - both on and off the field of play. 🏹🤺🏋♂️🤸♀️🤼♂️🚴♂️🏇🏊♂️🤽♂️🚣♂️ ⛵🏄♂️⚽🏀🏉🏐⚾🎾🏓🏑🥊🥋⛳ #paris2024 #olympics #paralympics #sportslaw

Tomorrow marks the official beginning to the Paris Summer Olympics. I've compiled the following statistics which will allow you to sound like an Olympic expert when talking to anyone about the summer games. Paris Olympic Games by the numbers. 1: For the first time, Breaking, also known as break dancing, and kayak cross will make their Olympic debuts. 3: Paris has now hosted the Olympics three times, in 1900, 1924, and 2024, making it one of only three cities to do so, along with London and Los Angeles. 6: France has hosted the Olympic games six times in total, including the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, and the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. 20: Mixed gender team events. 35: The number of venues that will be used. 45: The number of different sports at the Olympics. 152: Total number of events for women. 157: Total number of events for men. 206: The number of countries expected to participate in this summer’s games. 329: The number of medal events. 1,900: The 1900 Paris Olympic games were the first time women were allowed to compete 10,500: Approximate number of athletes who will compete in Paris. 20,000: Accredited journalists 45,000: volunteers who signed on. 

Before thinking about Paris 2024's opening ceremonies being one week from today, let's flash back to Paris 1924, in many ways the first modern Olympic Games. The Paris Games of 1924 fit historically in the window of five enormously significant Olympic Games sandwiched between the first and second World Wars- Antwerp 1920, Paris 1924, Amsterdam 1928, Los Angeles 1932 and Berlin 1936. That the Olympics simply returned in Antwerp in 1920, after WWI caused the cancelation of the 1916 Games is probably significant enough. No Olympic truce for us 20th Century types. Amsterdam saw women on the track for the first time, Los Angeles marked a return to America and all that LA symbolizes in Olympic history, and Berlin is the culmination of the Olympics and political and social spectacle as Jesse Owens defied Hitler's ideals on supremacy as sport was a surrogate for statecraft. It is in these "sandwiched Games," the Olympics first began addressing the issues that defined the next one hundred years, gender, race, inclusion, opportunity and global politics of society not just sport. There is probably no better lens to see the modern Olympics coming of age than that of Paris 1924. Professional coaches, if not athletes. Yes, even tennis players like Rene Lacoste were amateurs, yes that Lacoste. It was the Olympics of Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell made famous in "Chariots of Fire," of Johnny Weissmuller and Duke Kahanamoku who remain famous even today anywhere there is water, and of Jackson Scholz and the incomparable Paavo Nurmi. 1924 was also the year that Coca-Cola began the longest continuously running sports sponsorship in history with the Olympics that will celebrate its centennial in Paris this year. These Games would mark Baron Pierre de Coubertin’s, the father of the revived Olympics, last as President of the IOC. The folks at The Atlantic have compiled an amazing photographic history of the 1924 Paris Games to help us get ready for the 2024 Paris Games. #Olympics, #HistoryofSports #GlobalSports #SportsSponsorship

PARIS 1900: “THE FARCICAL GAMES” 😳 As the clock ticks down to Paris 2024, let’s look back at what happened the first time around and hope that things go better this time… It was only the 2nd-ever instalment of the modern Olympic Games, so perhaps it’s not so shocking that the Paris 1900 Olympics were a little disorganised. Later dubbed “farcical” and “an absurd anachronism”, the Games got off to a bad start by being stuffed inside a bigger and more established event – the 1900 Exposition Universelle (or World’s Fair). Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympic movement and IOC President, hoped that attaching the youthful Games to this better-known event would raise their profile. His tactic backfired. The Olympic competition was relegated to sideshow status. Spectators, officials – and even the athletes themselves – were often unaware that they were participating in the Olympics. Unsurprising, as most events were bafflingly labelled “International Contests of Physical Exercise and Sport” – no mention of Olympics. No opening or closing ceremonies were held. There was such confusion about schedules that few spectators or journalists were present at events; the press that did report called them "International Championships", "Paris Championships", and "Grand Prix of the Paris Exposition". Despite the poor marketing, almost a thousand athletes from 24 countries took part in 95 events. France – fielding 72% of all athletes – won the most gold, silver and bronze medals (although back then athletes received cups or trophies rather than medals). De Coubertin is reported to have commented later to friends, "It's a miracle that the Olympic Movement survived that celebration". But survive it did, and only 24 years later Paris would get a second chance. 📷: A poster advertising a 1900 Olympics fencing event, or “Concours international d’Escrime” / “Concours d’exercices physiques et de Sports” - note no mention of "Olympics"! #Paris #travel #storytelling

My idea for an UNcorrect Olympics I've seen the opening ceremony for the Paris 2024 Olympics and I have to admit I'm impressed. I loved the dancers, the epic music (Supernature by Cerrone), the hot air balloon and -without any cynicism- the performance of Celine Dion is beautiful in many ways. But if I could think of ideas, I would do it differently. Here's an Olympic event that I would watch from the beginning to the end. At the opening ceremony, there would be music from Rammstein ("Ein Mensch Brennt") during which a stuntman will be set on fire with the Olympic torch and with a spectacular trapeze stunt will jump into the cauldron. The following sports will be added to the UNcorrect Olympics: * Bare-knuckle fighting. This will add a new dimension of raw violence. A sport that gains popularity worldwide, featuring fighters like Mark Godbeer and Mighty Moe. Even Conor McGregor considers participating in this sport. * Darts. This will add more inclusion to the sport by giving more attention to the working class. Besides, it will be excellent for the beer sales revenue. * Coppers Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake. This is a traditional competition from a village near England, where participants have to run down a 180-meter-long hill, chasing a wheel of Double Gloucester cheese. The first person that goes over the finish line wins - no matter if they roll, stumble or are still on their feet. * Ear Pull. A traditional Inuit sport in which a loop of string is bound behind the ear and the objective is to pull the opponents ear until the cord comes free or the opponent quits from the pain. What do you think? Maybe if some of these ideas will be used in the LA Summer Olympics in 2028, it will add quite a lot of excitement to the world of sports. #paris2024 #paris #creativity #sportsmarketing 

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