New Zealand athletes will take on the world at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with around 200 New Zealand athletes likely to compete.
With competition taking place at the Palace of Versaille, beneath the Eiffel Tower, inside Stade de France, and around landmarks such as Les Invalides, Place de la Concorde, l'Hotel de Ville and along the Seine, the Games are expected to be a spectacular event.
The New Zealand Team is once again set to shine in sports from equestrian, to rowing, rugby sevens, swimming, canoe sprint, sailing, athletics, cycling and more, while New Zealanders can check out the action in incredible new urban sports including skateboarding, sport climbing, breaking and 3x3 basketball.
The Games will mark the centenary of the Paris Games of 1924, and the sixth Olympic Games hosted by France (three in summer and three in winter).
Aaron Gate is an Olympic bronze medallist and six-time Commonwealth Games medallist. Gate won Olympic bronze medal in the Team Pursuit at the London 2012 Olympic Games. Ten years later, at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, Gate won a staggering four gold medals, making history as the first ever New Zealander to win four golds at a single Games.
At the Olympic Games, swimming events are held in a pool measuring 50 metres in length. The four strokes of Olympic swimming events—for both individual and relay races—are breaststroke, butterfly, backstroke and front crawl; the front crawl is predominantly used in freestyle races, and as such the term freestyle is often used as a synonym for front crawl.
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