Ukraine will begin its participation in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris (France) before the official opening of the Games, with a football match against the Iraqi national team on July 24.
The 2024 Olympic Games in Paris will open on Friday, July 26, and the competition will last until August 11.
At the same time, on July 24, the Olympic team of Ukraine will make its debut at the football tournament of the Olympics. In particular, the match of the first round of the group stage between the national teams of Ukraine and Iraq will start at 20:00 Kyiv time.
All matches of the national team will be broadcast on the platforms “Suspilne Sport”, local TV channels “Suspilne” and Radio “Promin”.
In addition, on July 24, a fan zone for the Olympic Games will open in Urban Park at VDNG, where the competitions will also be broadcast.
As reported, the Summer Olympic Games in Paris will be held from July 26 to August 11. Ukrainian athletes received 124 licenses to participate in the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
The Ukrainian national team of 140 athletes will be represented in 26 out of 32 disciplines: badminton, boxing, freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, breaking, weightlifting, cycling (mountain bike and road), rowing slalom, academic rowing and rowing on kayaks and canoes, sports gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics, judo, athletics, artistic swimming, swimming, rock climbing, diving, archery, bench shooting, shot put, modern pentathlon, tennis, table tennis, fencing and football.
At the last Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics (which took place in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic), Ukraine took 44th place in the medal tally and became the 16th country in the ranking by the total number of medals won (1 gold, 6 silver and 12 bronze) . At the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Ukrainian athletes won 11 Olympic medals (2 gold, 4 silver and 5 bronze awards).
