Seven-time gold medalist, Katie Ledecky won the women’s 400m freestyle Saturday at the 2024 US Olympic swimming trials finals, clinching a spot on Team USA for the fourth time. The only swimmer to have a sub-4-minute time coming into the prelims, she clocked in at 3:58, finishing nearly five seconds ahead of Pan American Games record-holder Paige Madden —who did not qualify for the Olympic team. 

Head of the Palestinian Olympic Committee, Jibril Rajoub, said Wednesday he hoped the Paris Olympic Games would bring more attention to the war in Gaza and the "Israeli occupation of the West Bank," Times of Israel reported last week. So far the country is set to participate in the Games with one athlete confirmed in taekwondo while other hopefuls are training to meet the International Olympic Committee standards to have priority for wildcards. Rajoub said in a press conference earlier this month that Palestine will have a minimum of 6-8 (athletes), three of which are likely to come from Gaza. 

Despite recent heavy rains, swimming in the River Seine is still the plan at the Paris Olympics after a $1.5 billion (€1.3 billion) investment to improve the water quality, according to a report Thursday by the Associated Press. Marathon swimmers and triathletes are scheduled to plunge into the cleaned-up waters after the Olympics open in July.

The city of Šiauliai played host to the country’s celebration of Olympic Day , together with the 100th anniversary of the Lithuanian Olympic Movement, last Saturday in a festival with more than a hundred different sports and entertainment activities. 20,000 people are estimated to have attended the day-long event for a chance try out various sports, chat with professional athletes, meet national Olympians, engage in games and tournaments, and join educational and Olympic educational events.

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) has confirmed Lebanon’s Benjamin Hassan and Montenegro’s Danka Kovinić participation at the Paris 2024 Olympic Tennis Event after both were awarded Universality places in the men’s and women’s singles events.

Utah’s bid to bring the Winter Olympics back to Salt Lake City takes another step forward, as the Salt Lake City-Utah Committee for the Games released its budget on Monday to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as part of their response to the Future Host Questionnaire. The organisers projected that hosting the 2034 Winter Games in Utah would cost nearly $4 billion (€3.7 billion), including $2.83 billion (€2.6 billion) for core operations and promised no state or local public funding will be used to fund the Games.

NBA and Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokic has secured a spot in Serbia's preliminary 16-player squad for the upcoming Paris Olympics. The announcement came from the Basketball Federation of Serbia, who unveiled the list curated by Serbian national team coach Svetislav Pesic on their official website this Monday.

Bill May was vying to be the first man to compete in artistic swimming in this upcoming Olympic Games in Paris. After a rule change in December 2022 by World Aquatics opened the door for men to compete in the sport, allowing up to two per National Olympic Team.

Chase Budinger will make his Olympic debut this summer in Paris, qualifying with his partner Miles Evans after passing their countrymen Theo Brunner and Trevor Crabb in international rankings last month. The 36-year-old small forward who has played with the Phoenix Suns, Indiana Pacers, Minnesota Timberwolves and Houston Rockets, retired from basketball in 2017 to play pro volleyball.

Despite security threats and concerns over provocations, Israel is working to ensure that the athletes competing at the games in Paris can keep their focus entirely on sport, The Times of Israel reported last week.

Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee (TTOC) confirmed Thursday that Senior Administration officer Lovie Santana-Duke will serve as team TTO's Chef de Mission for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, taking place on 26 July until 11 August, Newsday reported.

Long-distance runner Sultan Haydar has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) for Evading, Refusing or Failing to submit to Sample Collection, according to the independent testing authority’s official website. 

For the first time in Olympic history, the opening ceremony will not unfold in a stadium but rather at the heart of the city in one of its most vibrant, pulsing arteries — The River Seine. In lieu of athletes parading in the arena, boats will take each national delegation through six kilometres of some of the most iconic sites of the city in a show never before. And behind all this pomp and circumstance is Thomas Jolly. 

The Indonesian National Olympic Committee is optimistic about their team’s participation in the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Raja Sapta Oktohari, President of the organisation, stated that Indonesia will surprise the world in this year's Olympics, according to Tempo.