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Réka Pupp and Szabina Gercsák are among the first Hungarian athletes to move into the Olympic Village in Paris. According to the Hungarian Olympic Committee’s website, the two judo athletes traveled to the French capital on Sunday with several members of the support staff, including doctors, on WizzAir’s Olympic-painted plane.
The athletes were able to validate their accreditation cards at the airport and the shuttle buses were waiting outside, thus everyone got to the village and their accommodation in the city quickly. Apart from the first Hungarian athletes in the Village,
World and European champion Mária Érdi and European silver medalist Jonatán Vadnai, are already in Marseille, where they will be competing.
The team’s accommodation. Photo: Facebook/Team Hungary
In addition, a post on the Olympic team’s official social media page reveals that three-time Olympic champion fencer Áron Szilágyi also arrived at the Olympic Village, checking in from the accommodation in a short video.
In addition, on Monday,
our gymnasts, our women’s handball players and our only rower, Bendegúz Pétervári-Molnár, have also left for the Paris Olympics,”
the team’s Facebook page reads.
Paris is relatively quiet for the time being, except for the banks of the Seine, where the mobile marquees and all the other structures the organizers have dreamed up for the opening ceremony are now being erected.
As for the expected results, statistical analysis company Gracenote is predicting seven gold medals for Hungary at the Paris Olympics instead of five, after only two first places for the team in November. According to the latest estimates,
the Hungarians will collect 23 medals in the French capital, with seven wins, six second places and ten third places, putting them in 11th place in the medal table.
Gracenote still expects the United States, China and the United Kingdom to be in the top three.
– Our latest #VirtualMedalTable for #Paris2024 has been released today.
USA still tracking to win more medals than in Tokyo
China can challenge the Americans for golds
Great Britain to complete the top-3
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— Gracenote Olympic (@GracenoteGold) June 26, 2024
A representative survey by Allianz Hungária Zrt. shows that 94% of Hungarians will watch the Olympic Games, with most of them following 4-5 sports.
Swimming is the sport that will attract the most sports fans (two thirds of respondents) during the Olympic Games, followed by water polo (57%), football (49%), handball (47%) and athletics (44%).
On average, Hungarian fans will watch 4.7 sports during the Olympic Games, but the number increases with age: the average is 5.8 for the over-65s. Fans prefer to watch the Olympics with family (34%) or friends (24%). The community-building power of sport is strongest among young people, four out of ten of whom prefer to cheer with friends.
The Paralympics will be watched by one in two Hungarians (56%), but the Paralympics will be even more popular with the over-55s, with 71% of this age group interested.
Via MTI, Featured image: MTI/Illyés Tibor