Paris 2024
On your marks, get set, go!
The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games are finally here. As the nation gets ready to cheer on our athletes, keep an eye on this page for exclusive events, interviews, behind-the-scenes insights and details of how you, National Lottery players, have helped support our athletes. Your ticket is their ticket to Paris.
Fighting for an Olympic dream
Team GB boxer Chantelle Reid has had to battle to secure her place at the Paris 2024 Olympics. And she credits her family for helping her return to the ring after a six-year layoff.
Good talks and golf help swimmers go for gold
How do Olympic medal-winning swimmers relax? For Team GB’s Tom Dean and James Guy, one of the best antidotes to the pressures of the pool is a round of golf.
Sprinter Imani-Lara's super fast past
The South London sensation was still in Year 7 when she convinced her father she had a talent that needed to be nurtured.
How Kieran learned to fly
Messing about on bikes as a kid growing up in Gateshead set Kieran Reilly on the path to becoming a BMX star and one of Team GB's hottest medal prospects.
Get tickets to our epic Homecoming events
The National Lottery’s Homecoming events are back. Set against the backdrop of magical moments from Paris 2024, they’ll combine the worlds of sport, music and entertainment to deliver unforgettable celebrations of Team GB and ParalympicsGB’s achievements. The ballot for free* tickets to the Team GB Homecoming is open now, so don’t delay.
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Helping athletes give back
After making us proud at the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics this summer, our elite athletes will be helping and inspiring the communities that have supported them thanks to a new National Lottery initiative.
Get an ‘Eiffel’ of our Paris Games TV ad
You may never reach the dizzy heights of our Olympians and Paralympians, but by playing The National Lottery, you’re helping them go for gold at the Paris Games. That’s the key message of our new TV ad which points out that National Lottery players are the biggest funder of Team GB and ParalympicsGB athletes. Your ticket is their ticket to Paris.
Did you know...?
At the 1996 Olympic Games, Great Britain and Northern Ireland finished 36th in the medal table with one gold medal. Then in 1997, National Lottery funding for elite sport began.
Since then, at the conclusion of the Tokyo 2020 Games, we have won over 1,000 Olympic and Paralympic medals.
Our athlete's success is made possible by you, National Lottery players. Because this year: your ticket is their ticket to Paris.
