Tag: Olympic Games
a museum for collectors of Games merchandise
The Olympic Games are also an opportunity for collectors to make deals or find treasures. For the first time during the Olympic Games, there is a real collectors’ house. It…
“Lebrun mania” at table tennis competitions
They are among the characters of these Paris Olympic Games. The Lebrun brothers, two young French table tennis prodigies. Alexis, the eldest, is 20 years old, his younger brother Felix…
Africa, future Olympic continent?
The African continent has already organised major sporting competitions: the Rugby or Football World Cups… but never an Olympic edition. Why are the Games being refused to Africa? Stadiums, roads,…
United States: the athletes’ El Dorado
Léon Marchand will try to add two new medals to his list of achievements tonight in the 200-meter butterfly and the 200-meter breaststroke. Races to follow in a little less…
Léon Marchand, Olympic champion in the 200m butterfly, his crazy challenge is underway
Frenchman Léon Marchand was crowned Olympic champion in the 200m butterfly on Wednesday, July 31 at La Défense Arena, adding a second gold medal to his list of achievements after…
Jamaican sprinter Shericka Jackson will not compete in the 100m
A tough blow for the Jamaican delegation. Shericka Jackson, bronze medalist at the Tokyo Games in the 100m and twice world vice-champion in the distance, will not be able to…
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 ”…
South and North Korean table tennis players take symbolic selfie
North Koreans Ri Jong Sik and Kim Kum Yong, silver medalists in mixed doubles table tennis, and South Koreans Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-Bin, bronze medalists, posed together on the…
Egypt’s spectacular progress, an increasingly tough opponent in fencing
Egypt faced the French sabre team in the quarter-finals of the Olympic tournament on Tuesday, July 31. Although the Blues won 45-41, it was anything but a walk in the…
After several postponements of events, the female triathletes took the plunge into the Seine
After months of doubts about the quality of the Seine water and an embarrassing first postponement, the two events scheduled for this Wednesday, July 31 are taking place. Triathlete Cassandre…