One month and counting: The first post-pandemic Olympics are finally within sight NBC News Top Stories By: Keir Simmons and Chantal Da Silva and David K. Li and Greg Rosenstein and Kaetlyn Liddy and Yuliya Talmazan and Chapman Bell 26 June 2024 at 08:22 PARIS β In exactly one month, the planetβs most gifted athletes will float down the Seine in Paris to celebrate the first Olympics since a world pandemic truncated consecutive Games. Β© YutakaSummer McIntosh during a women's 400-meter medley heat at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, in July 2023.