2024 Summer Olympics (Fiction)

The **2024 Summer Olympics**, officially the **Games of the XXXIII Olympiad** and also known as **Manila 2024**, was an international multi-sport event held from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 24 July 2021. Manila was selected as the host city during the 131st IOC Session in Lima, Peru on 13 September 2017.

Makati was awarded the Games at the 131st IOC Session in Lima, Peru, on 13 September 2017. It was the first time the Philippines and Southeast Asia hosted the Olympic Games.

The Games featured the debut of Breaking (Breakdancing), Cheerleading, Chess, Esports, Obstacle Racing, Roller Sports, and Squash.

## Bidding Process

Makati, Dubai, Rome, and Istanbul were the four candidate cities. The process was slowed by withdrawals, political uncertainty, and deterring costs. The applicant cities of Jakarta, Cape Town, and Guadalajara were not promoted to candidate status.

### Host city selection

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to select the host city of the 2024 Summer Olympics on 13 September 2017, at the 131st IOC Session in Lima, Peru, using an exhaustive ballot system. None of the candidate cities won more than 50% of the votes in the first round; Dubai and Rome were tied for second place, so a runoff vote was held to determine which of the two cities would be eliminated. The final vote was a head-to-head contest between Manila and Dubai. Manila was selected by 60 votes to 36, gaining at least the 49 votes required for a majority.

 Rome
 Istanbul

## Development and preparation

The Manila Organizing Committee was headed by Liam Lao while Andre Cayabyab, Minister for the Manila Olympic and Paralympic Games, was responsible for overseeing the preparations on behalf of the Philippine government.

The City Government of Manila set aside a fund of ₱200 billion (more than US$3.6 billion) to cover the cost of hosting the Games. The Philippine government built a new railway line that would easily connect from the airport to the Olympic Village, and other event locations,

In September 2023, the Manila Organizing Committee signed a partnership with the International Labour Organization to ensure decent work in the preparation of and during the 2024 Olympic Games.

In June 2023, the chief executive of the Organizing Committee, Carlo Bayona, stated that the committee was exploring options for streamlining the Games to achieve cost savings. On 25 September, the IOC and Manila Organizing Committee agreed to a suite of measures to simplify the Games' logistics, including a cut to non-athlete staff, use of online meetings, and streamlined transport, among others. The committee also outlined areas it would be exploring in order to maintain the health and safety of all participants.

### Venues and infrastructure

The newly built Philippine National Stadium in Makati was the venue for the ceremonies and the athletics events.

In February 2021, it was announced that the Philippine National Stadium would undergo renovation in preparation for the 2024 Summer Olympics. In December 2021, the Philippine Sports Council announced that it was taking bids for proposed stadium designs. The Azcona Architecture Group was awarded to design the venue.

In June 2023, the government announced plans to increase the new stadium's permanent capacity to 95,000 in its athletics configuration as a result of increased anticipation. The government also announced a plan to build an automatic retractable roof based on weather patterns.

### Security

In June 2023, the Philippine government chose to ban drones from flying over venues being used for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. In January 2024, counterterrorism drills began in different parts where the Games would take place, after intelligence data showed that terrorist groups could have carried out an attack seeking worldwide attention. In July 2024, the Philippine government conducted security drills in all of the venues and their surrounding areas.

### Volunteers

Applications for volunteering at the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games were accepted beginning on 26 September 2024. By 18 January 2025, a total of 583,489 applications had been received by the Philippine Organizing Committee. Interviews to select the requisite number of volunteers began in February 2023, with training scheduled to take place in October 2023. The volunteers at the venues were to be known as "Gold Force", and the volunteers in the city were to be known as "Blue Force".

### Medals

In February 2023, the Philippine Organizing Committee announced an electronics recycling program, soliciting donations of electronics such as mobile phones to be reclaimed as materials for the medals. Aiming to collect eight tonnes of metals to produce the medals for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, collection boxes were deployed at public locations and government offices in April 2023. A design competition for the medals was launched in December of that year and was awarded to a college student from the Ateneo de Manila University.

In May 2024, the organizing committee reported that they had obtained half the required 2,700 kilograms of bronze but were struggling to obtain the required amount of silver; although bronze and silver medals purely utilize their respective materials, IOC requirements mandate that gold medals utilize silver as a base. The collection of bronze was completed in November 2024, with the remainder estimated to have been completed by March 2023.

On 24 July 2023 (one year ahead of the originally scheduled opening ceremony), the designs of the medals were unveiled. The medals for the Olympic and Paralympic Games were designed by Xavier Chiu following a nationwide competition. A new feature shared with the Paralympic medals is that the ribbons contain one, two, or three silicone convex lines to distinguish gold, silver, and bronze medals, respectively.

### Torch relay

As determined by a 2009 IOC ruling that banned international torch relays for any future Olympic Games, the 2024 Summer Olympics torch was scheduled to only visit the two countries of Greece and the host nation Philippines. The first phase of the relay began on 12 March 2024, with the traditional flame lighting ceremony at the Temple of Hera in Olympia, Greece. The torch then travelled to Athens, where the Greek leg of the relay culminated in a handover ceremony at the Panathenaic Stadium on 19 March, during which the torch was transferred to the Filipino contingent. The flame was placed inside a special lantern and transported from Athens International Airport on a chartered flight to Davao in the Philippines. The torch was then expected to begin the second phase of its journey on 20 March.

The relay ended at the Philippine National Stadium on 23 July, with basketball player Maverick Ching lighting the Olympic cauldron at the finale of the opening ceremony. The cauldron lit in the Olympic Stadium was only used during the Opening and Closing ceremonies.

### Ticketing

The opening ceremony tickets were expected to range from ₱2,000 to ₱66,000 , with a maximum price of ¥25,000 for the finals of the athletics track and field events. The average ticket price was ₱4,800, with half the tickets being sold for up to ₱5,500. International guests, had they been allowed, would have needed to visit the Philippines during the sales period, or arrange to buy tickets through a third party such as a travel agent.

Tickets went on general sale in the Philippines in the autumn of 2023 and were expected to be sold globally from June 2024

## The Games

### Ceremonies

The opening ceremony was held on 26 July 2024 in the Philippines National Stadium in Makati. It included the traditional Parade of Nations. President Luke Sytengco formally opened the Games, and at the end of the torch relay the Olympic cauldron was lit by Filipino basketball player Maverick Ching.

### Sports

The event program for the 2024 Summer Olympics was approved by the IOC executive board on 9 June 2021. IOC president Thomas Bach stated that their goal was to give the Games "youthful" and "urban" appeal, and to increase the number of female participants

Breaking (Breakdancing), Cheerleading, Chess, Esports, Obstacle Racing, Roller Sports, and Squash made their Olympic debut, while baseball and softball also made a one-off return to the Summer Olympics after the Tokyo 2020 edition

In the list below, the number of events in each discipline is noted in parentheses.

	+ Artistic swimming
	+ Diving
	+ Marathon swimming
	+ Swimming
	+ Water polo
* Archery
* Athletics
* Badminton
* Baseball
	+ Baseball
	+ Softball
* Basketball
	+ Basketball
	+ 3×3 basketball
* Boxing
* Canoeing
	+ Slalom
	+ Sprint
* Cheerleading
* Chess
* Cycling
	+ BMX freestyle
	+ BMX racing
	+ Mountain biking
	+ Road cycling
	+ Track cycling
* Equestrian
	+ Dressage
	+ Eventing
	+ Jumping
* Esports
* Field hockey
* Football
* Futsal
* Golf
* Gymnastics
	+ Acrobatic
	+ Artistic
	+ Rhythmic
	+ Trampoline
* Handball
* Judo
* Karate
	+ Kata
	+ Kumite
* Modern pentathlon
* Obstacle Racing
* Roller Sports
	+ Speed Skating
* Rowing
* Rugby sevens
* Sailing
* Skateboarding
* Sport climbing
* Squash
* Surfing
* Table tennis
* Taekwondo
* Tennis
* Triathlon
* Volleyball
	+ Volleyball
	+ Beach volleyball
* Weightlifting
* Wrestling
	+ Freestyle
	+ Greco-Roman

## Participating National Olympic Committees

* Albania
* Algeria
* American Samoa
* Andorra
* Angola
* Antigua and Barbuda
* Argentina
* Armenia
* Aruba
* Australia
* Austria
* Azerbaijan
* Bahamas
* Bahrain
* Bangladesh
* Barbados
* Belgium
* Belize
* Benin
* Bermuda
* Bhutan
* Bolivia
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Botswana
* Brazil
* British Virgin Islands
* Brunei
* Bulgaria
* Burkina Faso
* Burundi
* Cambodia
* Cameroon
* Canada
* Cape Verde
* Cayman Islands
* Central African Republic
* Chad
* Chile
* China
* Chinese Taipei
* Colombia
* Comoros
* Cook Islands
* Costa Rica
* Croatia
* Cuba
* Cyprus
* Czech Republic
* Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Denmark
* Djibouti
* Dominica
* Dominican Republic
* Timor-Leste
* Ecuador
* Egypt
* El Salvador
* Equatorial Guinea
* Eritrea
* Estonia
* Eswatini
* Ethiopia
* Federated States of Micronesia
* Fiji
* Finland
* France
* Gabon
* Georgia
* Germany
* Ghana
* Great Britain
* Greece
* Grenada
* Guam
* Guatemala
* Guinea
* Guinea-Bissau
* Guyana
* Haiti
* Honduras
* Hong Kong
* Hungary
* Iceland
* India
* Indonesia
* Iran
* Iraq
* Ireland
* Israel
* Italy
* Ivory Coast
* Jamaica
* Japan
* Jordan
* Kazakhstan
* Kenya
* Kiribati
* Kosovo
* Kuwait
* Kyrgyzstan
* Laos
* Latvia
* Lebanon
* Lesotho
* Liberia
* Libya
* Liechtenstein
* Lithuania
* Luxembourg
* Madagascar
* Malawi
* Malaysia
* Maldives
* Mali
* Malta
* Marshall Islands
* Mauritania
* Mauritius
* Mexico
* Moldova
* Monaco
* Mongolia
* Montenegro
* Morocco
* Mozambique
* Myanmar
* Namibia
* Nauru
* Nepal
* Netherlands
* New Zealand
* Nicaragua
* Niger
* Nigeria
* Norway
* Oman
* Pakistan
* Palau
* Palestine
* Panama
* Papua New Guinea
* Paraguay
* Peru
* Philippines
* Poland
* Portugal
* Puerto Rico
* Qatar
* Refugee Olympic Team
* Republic of the Congo
* Romania
* Rwanda
* Saint Kitts and Nevis
* Saint Lucia
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
* Samoa
* San Marino
* São Tomé and Príncipe
* Saudi Arabia
* Senegal
* Serbia
* Seychelles
* Sierra Leone
* Singapore
* Slovakia
* Slovenia
* Solomon Islands
* Somalia
* South Africa
* South Korea
* South Sudan
* Spain
* Sri Lanka
* Sudan
* Suriname
* Sweden
* Switzerland
* Syria
* Tajikistan
* Tanzania
* Thailand
* Togo
* Tonga
* Trinidad and Tobago
* Tunisia
* Turkey
* Turkmenistan
* Tuvalu
* Uganda
* Ukraine
* United Arab Emirates
* United States
* Uruguay
* Uzbekistan
* Vanuatu
* Venezuela
* Vietnam
* Virgin Islands
* Yemen
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe

## Medal Summary

*See also: 2024 Summer Olympics medal table*

### Medal ceremonies

Jericho Cayabyab composed the music for the medal ceremonies. Cayabyab chose to employ a mixture of Filipino and world culture and he wanted all medalists to "feel at ease" when taking their places on the podium, regardless of their nationality.

## Calendar

The 2024 schedule by session was approved by the IOC Executive Board on 18 July 2022, with the exception of swimming, diving, and artistic swimming. A more detailed schedule by event was released on 16 April 2023, still omitting a detailed schedule for the boxing events. A detailed boxing schedule was released in late 2022.

*All times and dates use Manila Standard Time (UTC+8)*
## Calendar

*All times are in Philippine Time (UTC+8)*