Tag: Olympic Games 2024
the Olympic flame made a stopover in Guadeloupe before leaving for Martinique
After a week-long crossing from the tip of Brittany, the Olympic flame arrived in Guadeloupe on Saturday June 15. West Indian athlete Marie-José Pérec came out of the Maxi trimaran…
the list of candidates and flag bearers of the French delegation
The French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) revealed, Thursday June 13, the 18 candidates to be flag bearers for the Blues at the opening ceremonies of the Olympic (14…
African sport: couch hell?
An often mocked phenomenon, superstition in sport is very widespread. Spells, washings and voodoo rituals of disenchantment occupy the lives of all African athletes. But why are there so few…
Talk to the killjoys! – World sports
Anne Hidalgo is fed up! She recently denounced “Olympic bashing”! The Mayor of Paris is not the first high-profile French figure to criticize criticism of the Olympic Games. In a…
Nadia Comaneci, the Romanian icon of 1976
Nadia Comaneci was 14 years old when she became the “little fairy of Montreal”. The Romanian made history at the 1976 Olympics with the first perfect score of 10 out…
Tahiti surfs for the Olympics
Paris 2024 is also in French Polynesia. Tahiti hosts, from July 27 to 30, 2024, the surfing event of the Olympic Games. This is the first time in the history…
the race against time for the installation of the Olympic pools in La Défense
This is the last project under development 43 days before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games: the transformation of the Arena La Défense – usually…
Lionel Messi will not participate in the 2024 Olympics with Argentina
Lionel Messi, who will celebrate his 37th birthday on June 24, will not be present in Paris this summer for the Olympic Games. In an interview with the media ESPN…
Derartu Tulu and Elana Meyer, a rainbow in Barcelona 1992
On August 7, 1992, Ethiopian Derartu Tulu became the first black African to win an Olympic title by winning the 10,000 meters at the Barcelona Olympic Games. But it is…
Carlos Alcaraz and Rafael Nadal in the Spanish selection for the 2024 Olympics
The Spanish Tennis Federation revealed, Wednesday June 12, the players who will represent the country at the Olympic tennis tournament this summer in Paris. Carlos Alcaraz, world number two and…