Tag: France report
2024 Olympics: “We hope that breakdancing will not be distorted” by the competition, “because it is a street art”
It is one of the four “additional” disciplines of these Olympic Games in France. Breakdancing is making its appearance for the very first time. The events begin this Friday, August…
2024 Olympic Games: unsold food from Olympic sites collected and redistributed to the most disadvantaged
Every day, behind the scenes of the Olympic Games, several people go to the sites to collect food: sandwiches, chips, salads and other products that are unsold or not consumed…
2024 Olympics: “We’ll get the gold medal together,” promises boxer Sofiane Oumiha, little prince of the ring
He will compete this Wednesday, August 7, in the final of the Olympic boxing tournament in the under 63.5 kg category. Frenchman Sofiane Oumiha is just one fight away from…
The Olympic Games, a very serious playground for scientists
In Paris, during the Olympic Games, there are the athletes, there are the organizers, there are the tourists and… there is a team of scientists from the Pasteur Institute, the…
The departure of young Guadeloupean athletes to mainland France
At the Paris Olympics, the two medal-winning champions who lit the Olympic cauldron were born in Guadeloupe, and they learned their trade there. Teddy Riner and Marie-José Pérec had to…
2024 Olympics: Basketball rounds to be held in Lille, over a million visitors expected
For the basketball group stages at the Olympics, head to Lille, in the north of France. The French team, both women’s and men’s, won their first matches in a packed…
“Passing on the spirit of sport”: in the northwest of France, Château-Gontier also lives to the rhythm of the Games
All over France, towns, large and small, want to experience the Olympic Games even more intensely. This is the case in Château-Gontier, in Mayenne in the northwest of France. The…
JO 2024: in the Olympic village, a chaplaincy at the service of athletes
For some athletes, it is impossible to compete in the Olympic Games without spiritual support. Practicing a religion can be central to an athlete’s preparation or well-being. In the Olympic…
France: for the 2024 Olympics, foreign police officers patrol the capital
Around 1,800 international reinforcements are mobilised throughout the competition period, in a process of cooperation between police forces around the world. They come from around forty countries. For their patrol,…
2024 Olympics: horse riding in Versailles, “it’s magnificent”
It is probably one of the most spectacular competition sites of these Olympic Games. That of the Palace of Versailles, near Paris, which hosts the equestrian events. Two years of…