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UAE sets out journey to Paris 2024 Olympic

Games, competing in swimming and judo

games

WAM
25th July 2024, 03:27 GMT+10
PARIS, 24th July, 2024 (WAM) -- The Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games
is scheduled for Friday, 26 July 2024 in Paris. The international sports event will see
10,500 athletes from 200 National Olympic Committees compete in 32 sports across 329
events at 35 venues in the presence of 20,000 media representatives, and 45,000
volunteers.
The UAE National Olympic Committee (NOC) said 14 Emirati athletes will compete in five
sports: equestrian, judo, cycling, swimming, and athletics during the Games will conclude
on 11th August.
The UAE delegation sets out its journey to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games through two
competitions: swimming and judo, two days after the official opening ceremony.
The Paris 2024 Olympics is considered an important stage in the UAE's future sports
journey at the Olympic level, which began in Los Angeles 1984. It is a departure for a new
station towards a brighter sporting future, in light of the National Sports Strategy 2031,
which represents an umbrella for all initiatives, programs and projects of the sports sector
in the UAE, and whose main goal is to increase the number of qualified Emirati athletes to
over 30 by the 2023 Olympic Games.
Speaking about the national sporting ambitions and the future of UAE sports in the
Olympic Games, Ghanim Mubarak Al Hajeri, Director-General of the General Authority of
Sports, said: "Since the flag of this dear nation was raised for the first time at the 1984
Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, we have been dreaming of a bright sporting future that
carries with it achievements and excellence. There is no doubt that our participation in

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