The 2024 Summer Olympics have officially concluded, as athletes from more than 200 countries attended the closing ceremony in Paris on Sunday.
The cost of hosting the 2024 Olympics was estimated to be about $8.2 billion, which would make the Paris Olympics the sixth most expensive Olympic Games of all time, summer or winter, according to a new WalletHub analysis. The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, were the most expensive ever, costing nearly $25 billion, according to an Oxford University paper, followed by the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, originally planned for 2020 but delayed one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Expenses included in that estimate are stadium reconstruction, opening and closing ceremonies and operational costs like food service and labor force wages.
An estimated $3.2 billion of France's cost was spent on infrastructure investments in Paris's urban areas ahead of the games, according to WalletHub. Improvements to highways, railroads, airports and hotels and similar expenses are considered non-sports-related by the Olympic organizing committee and are not included in some Olympic Games budgets.
Paris last hosted the summer Olympics in 1924.
