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With less than 100 days until the Paris 2024 Olympics begins, here is a guide to everything you need to know about the Games.

80% of the competition venues will take place within 10km of the Olympic village

Team Ghana had one bronze medal at the Tokyo 2020 Games by young boxer, Samuel Takyi, then 21.

Tokyo 2020 was postponed by a year because of the Covid pandemic but now, three years later with the crowds back to fill the stands, what can we expect from Paris 2024?

How is Paris preparing for the Olympics and Paralympics?

When are the Olympics?    

Although the opening ceremony to signal the official start of the Paris 2024 Olympics will be held on Friday, 26 July, the sporting action actually begins on Wednesday, 24 July with pool matches in football, rugby sevens, handball and archery. The Games will run until 11 August.

Which venues are being used for the Olympics?

Most of the sporting events are in and around the heart of Paris, and the opening ceremony is set to be a spectacle, taking place along the Seine, the first time in Olympic history that the event will be held outside the main stadium.

The Stade de France will host the athletics and the closing ceremony. The Parc des Princes, home to Paris St-Germain, will stage football matches, and Roland Garros will host tennis and boxing. Surfing will take place in Tahiti, an island in French Polynesia nearly 10,000 miles away from Paris.

Some 95% of the venues already exist or are temporary, with the aquatics centre being the only new venue specifically built for the Games.

How can I watch the Olympics?

The Paris Olympics will be shown live on GTV television and other website and apps, and there will also be extensive coverage on the Olympic Channel.        

What are the new sports at the Paris Games?

The only sport making its debut in Paris is breaking. It was first introduced at the 2018 Youth Olympics and due to the combination of athleticism and urban dance, it has secured a spot on the programme.

The competition will take place as solo battles and the breakers will improvise to the DJ's tracks, including moves such as windmills, the six step and freezes.

Karate and baseball have been dropped from the Olympics since Tokyo 2020.

How many gold medals will be won in Paris and how many sports are at the Olympics?

There are 329 medal events across 32 sports. The first medal is set to be awarded in shooting on 27 July and the final medal event of Paris 2024 will be women's basketball on 11 August.

Can Ghana win a medal?

In sports anything can happen. Nobody knew featherweight Samuel Takyi will win a medal for Ghana at Tokyo 2020 as he was the youngest and inexperienced boxer in the team, but he brought glory and joy after many years. For the records Ghana has won only five medals at the Olympic Games,one bronze in football and the rest in boxing including one silver by Clement Quartey at the 1960 Rome  Boxing Men's light welterweight.

The others are Bronze by Eddie Blay at the 1964 Tokyo Games in Boxing Men's light welterweight, Bronze by Prince Amartey at 1972 Munich in Boxing Men's middleweight

Will there be prize money at the Olympics?

World Athletics has announced it will become the first international federation to award prize money at the Olympic Games.

The global governing body said a total prize pot of $2.4m (£1.9m) has been made available for this summer's Olympics in Paris, with gold medallists receiving $50,000 (£39,400).

Is Russia banned from competing in the Olympics?

Russian and Belarusian athletes will be allowed to compete as neutral athletes. They will not take part in the opening ceremony at the 2024 Olympics in Paris, says the International Olympic Committee.

Russia & Belarus athletes will not be part of opening ceremony

Who is competing for Team Ghana and how many medals could they win?

Ghana first participated at the Olympic Games in 1952

So far, not easy nut for Swimming, the nation will provide two swimmers on wild card.

In Track & Field, the 100x4 team is among the best 16 in the world and may make it. In High Jump, Rose Yeboah looks good to go with her accumulated points and recent performaces especially at the 13th African Games where she won gold.

Other athletes like Cadman, High Jump, Joe Paul Amoah, 2000m and Benjamin Azamati, 100m and others must ran at meets certified by the IOC to qualify.

Ghana lost in football as both the male and female teams crushed out sadly. The hope of the nation is Boxing, but none qualified at the African Qualifiers in Dakar, Senegal and the World Qualifier in Italy.

The last and final hope is coming up in May in Bangkok, Thailand where 12 boxers are going to try to make history.

By Sammy Heywood Okine