18th Summer Olympics
| Host cities |  Hamilton Schimpol
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| Nations | 67 | ||||||||
| Opening ceremony | 12 September 2024 OOC | ||||||||
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The 18th Summer Olympics (formally the Games of the XVIII Olympiad) is an international multi-sport event held in the cities of Hamilton, Electrum and Schimpol, Liventia. Events in 32 official sports will be held over four qualification and sixteen official competition days, with no demonstration events to be held for the first time since the 15th Summer Olympics.
Qualifying events were held in the Summer Olympics for the first time since the 11th Summer Olympics in Aeropag, with preliminary rounds of competitions taking place over a period of two weeks before the opening ceremony, which will be held simultaneously in the Hamilton Multi-Purpose Venue and Schimpol.
Host selection
| Bid | Votes |
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| Hamilton Schimpol
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8 |
| Re-open bids | 0 |
| Total | 8 |
Hamilton and Schimpol's joint bid for the Olympics won the vote for hosting rights unopposed. The vote was held according to the process specified by the Olympic Charter.
Summary
Participating nations
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Venues and infrastructure
Electrum
Originally a rectangular stadium, the Hamilton Multi-Purpose Venue was renovated for athletics competitions.
- Flameworks cluster
- Olympic Village
- Broadcast and media centre
- Hamilton Convention Centre - weightlifting, wrestling
- Flameworks Indoor Sports Centre - indoor volleyball
- Flameworks Skate Park - skateboarding
- The Amphitheatre - beach volleyball
- The Glasshouse - boxing
- Tumbarama Park - football
- City cluster
- Desert Pea Gardens - archery
- Hamilton Multi-Purpose Venue - rugby sevens, athletics, opening and closing ceremonies
- Hamilton Tennis Park - tennis, artistic and trampoline gymnastics preliminary rounds, table tennis, rhythmic gymnastics preliminary rounds, badminton
- The Cauldron - tennis
- Jane Bryson Memorial Arena, Hamilton Institute of Technology - gymnastics qualification and finals
- Old Town Hall - fencing
- Hamilton environs
- Red Sands Country Club - golf finals
- Wilkita International Shooting Centre - shooting
- Venues used for preliminary rounds
- Warburton University, Fairleigh-Warburton - volleyball
- Centralis Multi-Purpose Venue, Centralis - volleyball
- The Ice Palace, Prescott - volleyball
- Ridgeway Bay Arena, Somer - beach volleyball
- Newton Beach, Centralis - beach volleyball
- Kingsford Farm Country Club, Prescott - men's golf preliminary rounds
- Port Grenville Country Club, Port Grenville - women's golf preliminry rounds
Liventia
- Schimpol
- Arena Wilson: basketball finals, handball finals
- Harley Square: BMX freestyle cycling, sport climbing
- International Congress Centre of Schimpol: joint main broadcast and press centre
- Island Convention Centre: 3X3 basketball, breaking, judo, modern pentathlon (fencing ranking round), taekwondo
- Island Cricket Arena: Ceremonies, equestrian, modern pentathlon
- Lox Land Swimming Centre: artistic swimming, diving, water polo
- Motson Lake: canoe sprint, rowing
- Redbirds Stadium: hockey finals
- Schimpol and Lox Land Island (circuit): road cycling
- Schimpol Harbour: Sailing, triathlon
- Schimpol International Aquatics Centre: swimming
- Strait of Umber: marathon swimming, surfing
- University of the Island: Olympic Village
- Mainland Liventia
- Grovers Olympic Park Stadium, Orean: hockey preliminaries (temporary artificial turf pitch)
- National Cycling Centre, Orean: BMX racing cycling
- National Indoor Convention Centre, Orean: handball preliminaries
- National Indoor Sports Facility, Folenisa: handball preliminaries, hockey preliminaries (held indoors)
- Orean Great Hall: basketball preliminaries
- Orean Olympic Velodrome, Orean: track cycling
- Orean Olympic Park Arena: basketball preliminaries
- Redford National Forest, Madford: mountain bike cycling, canoe slalom
Summary
- This summary of events is based on media reports from participating countries.