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2024 Sri Lankan parliamentary election

Snap parliamentary election held 14 November 2024 in Sri Lanka, in which President Anura Kumara Dissanayake's National People's Power won 159 of 225 seats, a two-thirds majority, while the SLPP fell from 145 to 3 seats.

2024 Stanford Cardinal football team

2024 Stanford Cardinal football team: Stanford's first ACC season after leaving the Pac-12, coached by Troy Taylor, finishing 3-9 (2-6 ACC) with upset wins over Syracuse and No. 22 Louisville, followed by Andrew Luck's hiring as general manager.

2024 Stanley Cup Final

2024 Stanley Cup Final: Florida Panthers beat Edmonton Oilers 4-3 for their first NHL title, winning Game 7 2-1 on June 24, 2024, after Edmonton forced Game 7 from a 0-3 deficit; McDavid won the Conn Smythe.

2024 Stanley Cup playoffs

2024 Stanley Cup playoffs: NHL's 16-team, four-round best-of-7 postseason for 2023-24. Florida Panthers beat Edmonton Oilers 4-3 in the Final, winning Game 7 2-1 for their first Cup.

2024 Streamer Awards

The 2024 Streamer Awards comprised two fan-voted ceremonies: the third annual show on February 17, 2024 at The Wiltern (Kai Cenat won Streamer of the Year) and the fourth edition on December 7, 2024 at the Mayan Theatre (IShowSpeed won Streamer of the Year), both hosted by founder QTCinderella.

2024 Summer Olympics

2024 Summer Olympics (Paris 2024), held 26 July–11 August 2024 in Paris, France: 329 events, 32 sports, 10,813 athletes; breaking debuted; COJOP budget about €4.5 billion with a €75.7 million surplus.

2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics cauldron

The 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics cauldron, la Vasque olympique, was a fuel-free cauldron in the Tuileries in Paris whose flame was backlit water mist.

2024 Summer Olympics boxing controversy

2024 Paris Olympics boxing controversy over Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting, disqualified by the IBA in 2023 but cleared by the IOC under passport rules; both won gold, prompting World Boxing's 2025 genetic sex-testing policy.

2024 Summer Olympics medal table

2024 Summer Olympics medal table: Paris 2024 rankings by NOC. US led with 126 medals, China 91; 329 events; 92 nations medaled; per-capita leaders Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia.

2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony

The 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony, held July 26, 2024 on the Seine in Paris, was the first Olympic opening ceremony outside a stadium: a six-kilometer boat parade with 316,000 spectators, Thomas Jolly's 12 artistic tableaux, and a Trocadéro cauldron lit by Pérec and Riner.

2024 Summer Paralympics

Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics (Jeux Paralympiques), 28 August to 8 September 2024, first Summer Paralympics in France: about 4,400 athletes, 549 medal events, 22 sports, China topping the table with 220 medals.

2024 Summer Paralympics medal table

Paris 2024 Summer Paralympics medal table: China led with 94 golds (seventh straight summer Games), Great Britain second on 124 medals, USA third; France eighth with 75 medals.

2024 Sundance Film Festival

The 2024 Sundance Film Festival, the 40th edition held January 18–28 in Park City and Salt Lake City with online screenings, showed 91 projects from a record 17,435 submissions; In the Summers and Porcelain War won top jury prizes.

2024 Syracuse Orange football team

2024 Syracuse Orange football team: Fran Brown's first season as head coach, finishing 10-3 (5-3 ACC), No. 20 final AP, beating No. 8 Miami and winning the DIRECTV Holiday Bowl 52-35 over Washington State.

2024 Syrian opposition offensives

The 2024 Syrian opposition offensives, launched 27 November 2024 by HTS and the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army from Idlib, captured Aleppo, Hama, Homs, and Damascus, toppling Bashar al-Assad on 8 December 2024.

2024 Syrian parliamentary election

The 2024 Syrian parliamentary election (15 July 2024) filled the 250-seat People's Assembly under Assad; Baath-led National Unity won 185 seats, turnout 38.16%, held only in regime-held areas.

2024 Taiwanese presidential election

The 2024 Taiwanese presidential election (16th-term ROC president and vice president, 13 January 2024) elected DPP ticket Lai Ching-te and Bi-khim Hsiao with 5,586,019 votes (40.05%) over KMT Hou Yu-ih and TPP Ko Wen-je; turnout 71.86%, DPP lost its legislative majority.

2024 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season

2024 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season: NFL team's 10-7 campaign, fourth straight NFC South title, Baker Mayfield's team-record 106.8 passer rating and 41 TDs, and a 23-20 Wild Card playoff loss to the Washington Commanders.

2024 TCU Horned Frogs football team

2024 TCU Horned Frogs football team: Big 12 squad under Sonny Dykes that finished 9-4 (6-3), beat Louisiana 34-3 in the Isleta New Mexico Bowl, and featured record-setting passer Josh Hoover.

2024 Tenet Media investigation

The 2024 Tenet Media investigation is a DOJ case unsealed September 4, 2024, alleging RT employees Kostiantyn Kalashnikov and Elena Afanasyeva covertly funneled about $9.7 million through shell companies to the right-wing commentary outlet Tenet Media, founded by Canadians Lauren Chen and Liam Donovan.

2024 Tennessee Titans season

2024 Tennessee Titans season: NFL year under first-year head coach Brian Callahan after Mike Vrabel's firing; Titans went 3-14, fourth in the AFC South, spent $239 million in free agency, drafted JC Latham seventh, and clinched the No. 1 overall 2025 draft pick.

2024 Tennessee Volunteers football team

2024 Tennessee Volunteers football team, Josh Heupel's fourth squad, went 10-3 (6-2 SEC), earned the program's first College Football Playoff berth, lost 42-17 to Ohio State, and finished No. 8/No. 9 in the polls.

2024 Texas A&M Aggies football team

2024 Texas A&M Aggies football team, Mike Elko's first season as head coach; finished 8-5, 5-3 SEC, with wins over Missouri and LSU, a four-overtime Auburn loss, a 7-17 rivalry loss to Texas, and a 31-35 Las Vegas Bowl defeat to USC.

2024 Texas Longhorns football team

The 2024 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in its first SEC season, finishing 13–3 with a College Football Playoff semifinal appearance.

2024 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team

2024 Texas Tech Red Raiders football team: Joey McGuire's squad went 8-5 (6-3 Big 12), ranked 4th in FBS scoring (37.6 ppg), and lost the 2024 Liberty Bowl 26-39 to Arkansas.

2024 Thuringian state election

The 2024 Thuringian state election (Landtagswahl Thüringen 2024), held 1 September 2024, gave the AfD 32.8% and its first-ever Landtag win, the first far-right victory in a German state election since 1945; BSW entered at 15.8%, and a CDU-BSW-SPD minority government formed.

2024 Toronto International Film Festival

The 49th Toronto International Film Festival, September 5-15, 2024, presented by Rogers: opening film Nutcrackers, People's Choice winner The Life of Chuck, and the Russians at War screening controversy.

2024 Tulane Green Wave football team

2024 Tulane Green Wave football team: Tulane University's AAC football squad under first-year coach Jon Sumrall, finishing 9-5, 7-1 in conference, losing the AAC title game to Army and the Gasparilla Bowl to Florida.

2024 Tunisian presidential election

:The 2024 Tunisian presidential election reelected incumbent President Kais Saied with 90.69% on October 6, 2024. The election saw few candidates approved and turnout under 30%.

2024 U.S. Open (golf)

2024 U.S. Open (124th edition, June 13-16, Pinehurst No. 2): Bryson DeChambeau won his second title at 274, one stroke over Rory McIlroy, holing a bunker par putt on 18; $21.5 million purse.