Highlights From the 2024 Paris Olympics

The Paris Olympics promised to be memorable from the beginning: a gap ceremony and competitions on the River Seine; intensive safety measures quieting a bustling metropolis; the potential for equal gender illustration amongst athletes for the primary time. By means of the disruptions and controversies, goals realized and denied, photographers from The New York Occasions have been there to seize the moments. Listed here are a few of their favourite pictures.

Thursday, Aug. 1

Aerial stunts aren’t restricted to the gymnasts. Theirs are just a bit extra swish.

Wednesday, July 31

The lads’s triathlon went on after having been delayed a day over the Seine River’s water high quality. Different sports activities did a greater job of staying in sync.

Tuesday, July 30

A gold medal and merely making it to Paris are each price celebrating.

Monday, July 29

Irrespective of the game, you’ve acquired to maintain your eye on the ball.

Sunday, July 28

Simone Biles’s return to the Olympics after her withdrawal from most occasions within the Tokyo Video games three years in the past took middle stage as she and her American teammates competed within the qualification spherical. The highlight elsewhere was rather less shiny.

Saturday, July 27

The opening ceremony flotilla docked, the athletes — and Celine Dion — dried off from the rain and the Video games started. Rugby sevens, and different sports activities that had began earlier within the week, lastly had some firm.