For the next month, thousands of athletes will be competing in an array of sports, representing 206 countries.
Paris will be the centrepiece for the games, but events will also be spread across France with 16 cities to play host.
Among those countries represented is Great Britain, who who have taken around 327 athletes.
Among them are six representatives from Lancashire!
So if you happen to be an athletics fan and want to support our local athletes, check out our gallery below:
5. Anna Hopkin
Anna Hopkin, 28, from Chorley, was part of the mixed 4x100m medley relay team that won gold at Tokyo 2020. On Olympic debut, Hopkin anchored Team GB to victory in a thrilling inaugural mixed relay race. She also finished seventh in the 100m freestyle and fifth in the women’s 4x100m freestyle relay, recognised with an MBE in the 2022 New Year Honours. Hopkin has built on that success, picking up a pair of World Championship relay bronze medals, and will feature at her second Olympics in Paris. | Barrington Coombs/Getty Images
6. Graeme Thomas
Graeme Thomas, 35, from Preston, as selected in the men’s quad for Rio 2016 but withdrew on the eve of the Games due to illness and had to fly home.Thomas then finished fourth in the men’s double with John Collins at Tokyo 2020. Having won a landmark bronze medal as a single sculler at the 2022 World Championships, Thomas is back in the quad, a boat class in which Team GB won silver in Tokyo. | Barrington Coombs/Getty Images