The women's marathon at the 2024 Olympics will be the last event of the Games, with the winners being presented their medals during the Closing Ceremony.
The modern Olympics have traditionally presented the winners of the men's marathon with their medals at the Closing Ceremony. However, in, the men' and women's marathons have swapped places, giving women the honor of being the athletes highlighted at the Closing Ceremony for the first time.Why are the winners of the Olympic marathon given their medals during the Closing Ceremony?
Since the first modern Olympics in 1896, the winners of the the men's marathon have been presented their medals during the Closing Ceremony as a way to have one culminating event bring the Olympics to a close.The marathon was chosen as the event to be showcased as it is seen as one of, if not the, most challenging, with no athleteBefore the Paris games, the women's marathon would take place the day before the Closing Ceremony, with the men's marathon happening the day of.
Team USA’s A'ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart shared their enthusiasm for the women’s basketball final at the Paris Games, as they look for their eighth straight Olympic gold medal.for both women and men will recognize a key event in the French Revolution as well as for women in The Women's March on Versailles took place on Oct. 5, 1789, when more than 6,000 Parisian women, who were also joined by men, gathered in front of the Hôtel de Ville in Paris demanding bread and arms. The group ultimately marched all the way to Versailles, where the King of France, Louis XVI, agreed to ratify the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens and traveled back to Paris the next day.
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