Tag: medal
Is the 2024 Olympic gold medal really gold?
5,084 medals will be awarded in Paris this summer for the Olympic Games, including more than 1,000 in gold. But these are not only made of the precious metal. It…
After giving birth and broken ankle, Van Dijk aims for Olympic medal
But after three world titles, the world hour record and the birth of son Faas in October last year, gold in Paris had become the main goal. Five months after…
Medal in sight for Dupont’s Blues in rugby 7s
Saint-Denis (AFP) – One match away from a medal: the French rugby 7s team have qualified for the semi-finals of the Olympic tournament after beating their arch-rivals Argentina in style…
2024 Olympic Games earnings: how much does a medal bring in for athletes?
Medals at the Olympic Games bring certain gains, more or less high depending on the country. The Olympic Games do not offer a bonus to athletes, the IOC refuses to…
As a child, Luukas Saha kept to himself the junk training if the games went under the bench – the next hard goal is an Olympic medal | Sport
Paris Olympics on channels 26.7.–11.8. Go to the competition website here. A greedy ivy swarm takes advantage of its opportunity. Luukas Saha, who is threading the line into the loop…
2024 Olympics: Kenya’s rugby 7s team hopes to win a medal to become professional
This Wednesday, July 24, is the opening of the rugby 7s competition at the Paris Olympic Games. One of the African hopes in the men’s category is the Kenyan team,…
Eetu Kallioinen is one of the world’s best skeet shooters and a big hope for a medal at the Paris Olympics | Sport
It’s bitterly cold at the Lope shooting range. Sometimes even a few snowflakes fall from the sky, even though it’s the end of April. There is a scream from the…
Captain Brinkman wants missing Olympic medal: ‘Don’t think about previous Games anymore’
And so Brinkman, a sports fan par excellence, has to follow the other sports ‘simply’ via his phone. But if he gets a wildcard to visit another sport, he will…
Benjamin Boukpeti recounts how he won Togo’s only Olympic medal
On August 12, 2008 in Beijing, Benjamin Boukpeti made history by winning Togo’s first – and still only – Olympic medal. In the K1 canoe-kayak slalom event, the Parisian-born Boukpeti…
The great promise of Finnish athletics is fighting for the gold medal today | Sports in a nutshell
Enni Virjonen is in the medal fight in the 7th match of the under-18 European Championships. The four-day European Under-18 Athletics Championships started in Slovakia on Thursday. From a Finnish…