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Celebrate the 2024 Summer and Paralympic Games in Paris with 35 fun activities to help kids learn all about Olympic history, traditions, sports and elite athletes
Celebrate the 2024 Summer and Paralympic Games in Paris with 35 fun activities to help kids learn all about Olympic history, traditions, sports and elite athletes
Part 5: There are certain rules that must be upheld in every Olympic Games, but for the first time in modern Olympic history, the Opening Ceremony will be held outside a stadium
Part 6: When it came to building a home away from home for the 14,000 athletes and crew competing in the Paris Olympics, comfort and performance were just as important as sustainability
Part 7: While many host cities use native animals as their Olympic mascots, the Paris 2024 Olympics will have a mascot fashioned from a unique piece of French clothing
Part 8: Street sports such as skateboarding and breakdancing are making their Olympic debut at the 2024 Paris Games with 32 sports on offer across both new and repurposed venues
Part 9: The 2024 Paris Olympics marks the third time the ‘Ville Lumiere’, or, city of lights, has hosted the Games. Let’s look back over the history of France – and learn a few words along the way
Part 10: The Paralympics have been held every four years for more than six decades, with a record 4000 athletes competing this year – including some of Australia’s best Paralympians
Part 11: At 10th place on the Olympic ranking, Australia is a nation that loves its sport. Let’s look at some of our best Olympic champions of all time and the new entrants who are set to shine
Part 12: With less than two years to go before the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games in Italy, the countdown to the snowy sporting event has begun – but will the venues be ready on time?
Part 13: Brisbane is set to host the 2032 Summer Olympic Games and the race is on to decide which animal will be made Olympic mascot. Will it be “Barry the Bin Chicken”?
Celebrate the Tokyo Games with 25 fun activities to help kids learn all about Olympic history, traditions, sports and athletes
Part 1: The modern Olympic Games have been around for 125 years, but you have to look back much further than that to understand how the Olympic tradition began
Part 2: What started as one man’s idea to encourage world peace is now the biggest sports event on the planet. Let’s take a look at the history of the modern Olympic Games as we gear up for Paris
Part 3: The founder of the modern Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin, believed sport could bring people together and help them excel. These values are still at the core of the Games today
Part 4: The Olympic flame continues its journey as one of humanity’s most uniting and symbolic sparks in the modern era
PART 5: The Tokyo Games are the first where the gold, silver and bronze medals are also green, having been made entirely from recycled metals
PART 6: Two stars of the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics won’t be going for gold but they do have superpowers! We look at Olympic mascots and emblems
PART 7: One of the most exciting parts of any Olympics is discovering more about the host city and wider country – welcome to Tokyo, Japan!
PART 8: We’ve been lucky enough to host two Olympic Games, with the 1956 Melbourne Games and the 2000 Sydney Games both playing an important role in Olympic history
PART 9: Australia has produced many Olympic heroes, from our first Olympian Edwin Flack to five times gold medallist Ian Thorpe