With four days to go, these are some of the highlights so far.
Australia’s gold rush
Among the gold medal winners was pole vaulter Nina Kennedy. She was the only vaulter to clear 4.90m, which saw her claim Australia’s 18th gold medal.
Nina Kennedy won Australia’s 18th gold medal at the Paris Games. Source: AAP / Dean Lewins
Australia’s men’s team pursuit cycling team beat fierce rivals Great Britain in the final to win the Olympic gold medal for the first time in 20 years.
And Matt Wearn dominated the men’s dinghy race in Marseille to collect his second Olympic sailing gold medal. He won the same event at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
A nation’s first Olympic medal
The 23-year-old, from the Caribbean Island nation of St Lucia, not only became the country’s first athlete to win an Olympic medal when she won the race, but three days later scored silver for the 200m.
Julien Alfred won St Lucia’s first-ever gold medal. Source: Getty / Catherine Steenkeste
With a population of less than 200,000, Alfred’s home country first participated in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
Dominica’s Thea LaFond was the only woman in her competition to jump more than 15m in the women’s triple jump to claim the medal.
Triple jumper Thea LaFond of Dominica won her country its first Olympic medal. Source: Getty / Carl Recine
Australia’s youngest gold medallist
Aged 14 years and 86 days, Trew eclipsed Australia’s previous youngest medallist, swimmer Sandra Morgan.
Arisa Trew is the youngest Australian to win an Olympic Gold medal. Source: Getty / Julian Finney
Morgan was 14 years and 184 days old when she won gold in the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.
When asked about the national record she now held, Trew said it was “pretty insane”.
A win for the Refugee Olympic Team
She is set to fight for a place in the gold medal match but even if she loses her next bout, Ngamba will have already made history, guaranteed a bronze for her efforts.
Refugee Olympic Team’s Cindy Ngamba (right) beat France’s Davina Michel to reach the women’s 75kg boxing semi-finals. Source: Getty / Mohd Rasfan
Host city firsts
The opening ceremony was the first to be staged outside of the main Games stadium, with athletes cruising down the Seine River and the athletic track is purple for the first time at an Olympics.
Jessica Fox and Eddie Ockenden, Team Australia’s flagbearers, during the athletes’ parade at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games on 26 July. Source: AFP / Quinn Rooney/POOL/AFP via Getty Images
Paris is the first Games to have events held so far away from the host city.