Here, JobAdvisor looks at three things to watch out for in the sport that has figured at each Olympic Games since 1896:
Fireworks on the vault
The women's vault final promises to be a spellbinding, gravity-defying affair. Saturday week's show should have spectators on the edge of their seats, and their jaws in their laps if Simone Biles unleashes her most daring move -- the Biles II.
One of five of her eponymous skills, it involves the 'simple' matter of a Yurchenko double pike -- a roundoff onto the springboard followed by a back handspring onto the vault table with two back flips in the straight-legged pike position. Definitely not for the faint-hearted.
The American superstar wooed the world when she became the first woman to perform the move in competition at the 2021 US Classic, and it was named in her honor when she landed it at the 2023 world championships.
Biles' main challenger for gold could be Rebeca Andrade, the Brazilian who captured the vault title in Tokyo in Biles' well-documented absence. Andrade also won world gold in Antwerp last year, but only by .100 after a Biles fall.
Then there's Yeo Seo-jeong. The South Korean deployed her own signature skill -- the 'Yeo' -- to spring into bronze in Tokyo, a first for her country. Yeo was keeping it in the family, as her skill combined the two named after her father Yeo Hong-chul, a silver medallist in Atlanta in 1996.
Others out to stop Biles from regaining the gold she won at Rio 2016 are her compatriot, Jade Carey, silver medallist in Tokyo and the 2022 world vault champion, and Mexico's Alexa Moreno, who if successful will have to add another chapter to her autobiography.
Flying the flag for Ukraine
The Ukrainian gymnasts arrive in Paris on a tide of goodwill and with a homemade national flag to bring them luck. Not that they need much of that valuable commodity in current form.
They will have plenty of support from impartial observers and the athletes from the war-torn country entertain live medal hopes if recent results are anything to go by.
Illia Kovtun inched the men past Britain to European team gold in Italy in April, alongside Nazar Chepurnyi, Igor Radivilov, Radomyr Stelmakh, and Oleg Verniaiev. Kovtun added individual titles on parallel bars and high bars. Russia's invasion has forced the team to train in Croatia for the past few months.
Teenager Anna Lashchevska, a World Cup winner on the beam, completes the Ukrainian line-up in Bercy. And that flag? It was lovingly embroidered with flowers by a Ukrainian woman and a fan of Kovtun's.
Home advantage?
Hosts France will be hoping history repeats itself. The first time Paris hosted the Games, in 1900, gymnastics was confined to the men's individual all-around, with women only being allowed to compete from 1928. France swept the floor, factory worker Gustave Sandras taking gold at Vincennes hippodrome, with his compatriots filling the next 18 places.
The second time, in 1924, they also picked up a title, in the men's sidehorse vault. Their third and last gold came in 2004. It's fair to say the intervening 124 years since Paris 1900 has seen the competition blossom, and its place as one of the Games' headline acts assured.
"Gymnastics has been part of the essence of the Olympic Games since their revival in 1896. Paris 2024 gives us a unique opportunity to see how our sport has evolved over the past century since the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924," Morinari Watanabe, head of the sport's governing body the FIG, commented.
Buoyed by the support of their home crowd at the Bercy Arena, the 2024 hosts are pinning their medal hopes on Melanie De Jesus Dos Santos, the 24-year-old Martinique-born gymnast who led the French women to all-around bronze at last year's world championships.
But there are serious questions over whether the sport will even remain on the Olympic program.
Boxing made its debut at the modern Olympics in 1904 and has been contested at every Summer Games since, apart from the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm as Swedish law banned the sport at the time.
But it only went ahead at the Covid-delayed Tokyo Games three years ago after the International Olympic Committee stepped in to oversee the competition.
The IOC suspended its recognition of the International Boxing Association in 2019 because of concerns over governance, and financial and ethical issues, and last year it withdrew its recognition of the governing body.
The IOC will once again organize boxing in the French capital and has given the sport until 2025 to get its house in order, otherwise it risks being excluded from the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
Against this uncertain backdrop, nearly 250 boxers -- evenly split for the first time between men and women -- will do battle between July 27 and August 10, the penultimate day of the Games.
Women's boxing made its Olympic debut in London 2012 across three weight categories but there will be six weight divisions in Paris, reflecting the growth of the sport.
Olympic boxing will take place at the North Paris Arena on the outskirts of the city and at Roland-Garros, better known as the home of the French Open tennis.
Among those to watch in the women's competition will be Ireland's Kellie Harrington, who won the lightweight title in Tokyo.
She suffered her first defeat in three years in April and knows the pressure is on after her heroics in 2021 catapulted her into the spotlight.
"It's not about being the greatest, it's not about bringing back a medal," the 34-year-old recently told Irish media.
"It's that feeling of, 'I'm just going to get this done because this is what I've worked for'."
Also in the women's event is Cindy Ngamba, who was born in Cameroon but moved to Britain aged 11 and will represent the Refugee Olympic Team.
Delicious prospect
There are several plotlines in the men's competition, which will similarly feature reigning Olympic champions, some boxers with professional experience and also emerging talents.
Led in the past by boxers such as Ali, Mayweather, George Foreman, Roy Jones Jr and Evander Holyfield, the United States is the most successful nation in the history of Olympic boxing.
But its men have failed to take home gold since Andre Ward -- another who went on to become a world champion -- in 2004.
Their hopes of ending that drought are led by the 21-year-old featherweight Jahmal Harvey.
Cuba are another traditional heavyweight and in Arlen Lopez and Julio Cesar La Cruz they have two highly accomplished fighters who are looking to win gold for a third time.
Only three boxers have ever done that in the history of the Games.
Britain is another powerhouse, both in women's and men's boxing.
Anthony Joshua won gold for the hosts in London in 2012 before turning pro and becoming heavyweight world champion.
Britain have high hopes for 27-year-old super-heavyweight Delicious Orie, who has been mentioned as the next possible Joshua and is a reigning Commonwealth Games champion.
A sparring partner of Joshua's, Orie once said: "Some say I'm the new Anthony Joshua, but one day I aim to be even better and dominate."
Waseem Abu Sal will be the first Palestinian boxer to compete at the Olympics after earning a wildcard spot.
"This has been my dream since I was 10," he told AFP at his gym in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah.
"Every day I woke up wondering how to get to the Olympics."