Tag: history
Henry Fieldman was too small to be a rower – on Saturday, he made handsome Olympic history in the sport | Sport
Usually, things go like this in the Olympic Games, that athletes tell reporters things, which they pass on as news. On Saturday morning, the opposite happened at the Vaires-sur-Marne rowing…
Africa Station, the island of a continent?
Come to “Africa in Games” where, from this immense Fan Zone on Ile-Saint-Denis, where sport and Olympism mingle with the culture of a large part of the continent, we will…
MİT’s swap operation went down in history! Stories that are like TV series plots: Agent family with 2 children…
The National Intelligence Organization (MIT) has signed a historic swap operation involving the mutual exchange of 26 people in prisons in the USA, Germany, Poland, Slovenia, Norway, Russia and Belarus.…
Crazy ending! Nathalie Blomqvist made Finnish running history: “It’s nothing like running in a circle” | Sports in a nutshell
Nathalie Blomqvist is the first Finn in the women’s 5,000 meters Olympic final. The 23-year-old runner exuded confidence after his great heat run. 2.8. 20:32•Updated 2.8. 20:41 Nathalie Blomqvist made…
Boxer David de Pina wins Cape Verde’s first medal in history
By winning on points against Zambian Patrick Chienyemba, boxer David de Pina has now made history. He will become Cape Verde’s first ever Olympic medallist. 1 min From our special…
Jouko Salomäki has watched his match 200 times, which is Finnish sports history – at least until next week | Sport
61 years old Jouko Salomäki puts on the dvd player the final match, which is very familiar to him. It has been 40 years since Salomäki won the Olympic gold…
French judoka Teddy Riner has another date with history
After his defeat in the quarter-finals in Tokyo, Teddy Riner is in Paris on Friday August 2 to pick up the golden thread of his Olympic history, win a third…
Van Rossem talks about the day the Dom collapsed, exactly 350 years ago today
Many people know it and if you stand on the Domplein you can still see it clearly: there is only half a church there. A large part of the original…
The Olympic cauldron in the Tuileries Gardens, a true Olympic phenomenon
Since it was revealed to the world on Friday July 26 during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games, the cauldron installed in the Tuileries Gardens has been ”…
Deadpool & Wolverine achieves what no other film in the history of cinema has ever achieved
The hype surrounding Deadpool & Wolverine has paid off immediately at the box office. Since its launch last week, the Marvel blockbuster about the bickering superhero duo has set intoxicating…