Special years can be understood in advance.
This year, 2024, is such a year. If no other reasons, this year we will encounter the Summer Olympic Games and the major political parties’ national conventions. Any other items to be added make little difference in the quality of a year, however, stay tuned.
This year, the Games of the Olympiad, Friday, July 26 through Sunday, Aug. 11, as usual are in leap years and many fans jump at the opportunity to watch the Games on NBC television, or, if possible, attend in person. The Games will be in Paris with 329 events, 39 sports, fencing to rowing, and 10,500 expected athletes.
The Olympic Games are much more than sports contests. It is a geopolitical event. Some countries see the Games as a measure of strength, pride, advancement with success.
This year will mean France, Britain, and the United States will be the only countries to be hosts to the Games at least three times: France in 1900, the first one, 1924, and 2024; Britain in 1908, 1948, and 2012; the U.S. in 1908, 1932, 1948. 1984, 1996, and will be in 2028. The true strength of the Olympic Games is to have athletes who train for more than a year to become superbly conditioned to enjoy the competition.
The major party National Conventions will be prior to and after the Olympic Games and in the Midwest, Milwaukee and Chicago. The party out of presidential power goes first. The Republican Party will hold its National Convention in Milwaukee, July 15-18, and the Democratic Party will hold its National Convention, in Chicago, August 19-22. Enjoy. Be informed.