Tag: Olympic Games 2024
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…
Tommie Smith, still with his fist raised
Tommie Smith, hero of the Mexico 1968 Games, is visiting France. During a conference organized by the immigration museum, as part of its exhibition “Olympism, a history of the world”,…
Marie-José Pérec, French legend of the Barcelona and Atlanta Olympics
Triple Olympic athletics champion, Marie-José Pérec remains a star of world athletics and has written one of the most beautiful pages of French sport with her medals in Barcelona and…
“Even in Seine-Saint Denis, we can shine”: triple Olympic champion Teddy Riner meets young judokas
A few weeks before the Games, sporting festivities are multiplying in France, like the one organized a few days ago in Seine-Saint-Denis. Young judokas were able to meet their idol,…
Paralympic Games: is the enthusiasm equal to the stakes?
The organizers present them as “the return match” of the Olympics but two and a half months before the start of the competitions, the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games are struggling…