Lausanne, Switzerland:<\/strong> The International Hockey Federation (FIH) is glad to announce that, at a ceremony held at the Olympic House in Lausanne earlier today, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach and FIH President Tayyab Ikram unveiled the competition schedule for hockey at Paris 2024, to be played from 27 July to 9 August.<\/p>\n The hockey tournaments of the XXXIII Olympiad will be played in the historical venue of the Yves-du-Manoir Stadium \u2013 an Olympic Games arena in 1924! \u2013 in Colombes, near Paris. 12 men\u2019s and 12 women\u2019s national teams will compete to clinch the highly coveted Olympic medals, including Dutch women and Belgian men who will compete in the event as the reigning gold medalists from the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.<\/p>\n Both men\u2019s and women\u2019s hockey tournaments at Paris 2024 will get underway on 27 July. The first match of Hockey at Paris 2024 will be an all-European affair with Great Britain taking on Spain in the men\u2019s Pool A match at 10:00 CEST. The women\u2019s competition will begin on the same evening at 19:45 CEST with silver medalists from Tokyo 2020, Argentina, beginning their quest to go one step further this time, against USA in the women\u2019s Pool B encounter.<\/p>\n The pool stages in both tournaments will be played till 3 August, followed by knockout matches starting 4 August. The medal matches for men\u2019s Hockey at Paris 2024 will be played on 8 August, followed by medal matches for the women\u2019s tournament on 9 August.<\/p>\n The ticket sales for the hockey tournaments at Paris 2024 also opened earlier today.<\/p>\n Introduced at the Olympic Games London 1908, men\u2019s hockey will be played at the Olympic Games for the 25th time during Paris 2024, while women\u2019s hockey, which made its first appearance during Olympic Games Moscow 1980, will be played for the 12th consecutive edition at Paris 2024.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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