Tag: Olympic Games 2024
Doping: how far does the threat go?
While France awaits the arrival of the Olympic flame on Wednesday May 8, 2024, thousands of athletes are perfecting their preparation before this summer’s Olympics. Some people see their Olympic…
Marseille prepares for the arrival of the Olympic flame aboard the three-masted Belem
Marseille will experience a foretaste of the Olympic Games on May 8 with the arrival of the Olympic flame in the city. On May 9, the flame will travel through…
Exhibition on the social and political history of Olympism: “It put nations on the world map”
A few weeks before the launch of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, the National Museum of the History of Immigration is presenting, from April 26 to September…
Bilal Coulibaly, DC’s Frenchie, dreams of the Games after a successful season
After a successful first NBA season in Washington DC, Bilal Coulibaly (19 years old) applied for selection for the Paris Olympic Games with the French team, a participation which would…
Olympic Games 2024: “we are asking for compensation bonuses for the constraints”, says Céline Verzeletti (CGT)
Céline Verzeletti, confederal secretary of the CGT, is today, May 1, World Workers’ Day, the big guest on RFI’s morning show. Labor legislation, social discontent, risks of strikes and all-out…
Olympic Games 2024: the incredible destiny of three referees from an amateur badminton club
They are also selected to participate in the Olympics: the referees. Three of those selected for the badminton events were chosen at the Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande club, near Rennes, in Brittany. A…
When the craze for the Olympic Games began in 1920 after the Great War
From April 26 to September 8, the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris hosts the exhibition Olympism, a history of the world (1896-2024). Enough to dive into the heart…
a tribute paid to a worker who died in Paris on an Olympic Games construction site
On June 16, 2023, the first fatal accident took place on a construction site linked to the Olympic Games. Amara Dioumassy, a 51-year-old worker, was hit by a truck on…
the Olympic flame officially handed over to the French Organizing Committee
Ten days after the lighting of the Olympic flame on the ancient site of Olympia, a new ceremony was held in Athens this Friday evening. On the program, the handover…
swimming in the Seine, a battle far from being won
The commitment gives a cold sweat to the organizers of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris (July 26 – September 8): the good performance of the swimming events in…