Tag: Olympic Games
Retraining athletes, mission impossible?
The retraining of high-level athletes is a sensitive subject. Like soldiers returning from the front after a war, sometimes the gods of the stadium have the greatest difficulty reconverting after…
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…
How can Africa pass the bar?
Africa has never exceeded the 5% mark for medals at the Olympics. How can it break this glass ceiling? With Amadou Dia Ba (Senegal), Olympic athletics medalist and director of…
Tourists in France before the official opening of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Tourists who wish to participate in the Olympic and Paralympic Games in France can come before the official opening. Indeed, several cultural events are organized in the country during the…
from Atlanta to Tokyo, what previous editions teach us
The total cost of the Paris Olympics is expected to significantly exceed the seven billion euros announced by the organizing committee when it submitted its bid in 2017. However, these…
at D-100, between satisfactions, questions and concerns, what remains to be done?
Here is France, exactly 100 days away from hosting the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. If Tony Estanguet’s Cojo and the various parties can rejoice in some successes in the set…
Tony Estanguet: The lighting of the flame “marks the start of the celebration of the 2024 Olympic Games”
The Olympic flame sets off, heading for the Paris games! During this immutable ritual, which symbolically takes place on the site of the ancient games, a stone’s throw from the…
Macron discusses the prospect of a withdrawal from the opening ceremony at the Stade de France
Until Monday April 15, the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was officially only planned on the Seine, with the vague idea that other possibilities were being studied.…