Tag: Olympics
Should we boycott the Beijing Olympics?
NO / “The empty chair policy is not effective” By Cécile Coudriou, President of Amnesty International France Amnesty International’s position has always been that a boycott of sporting events, whether…
Covid-19: the Tokyo Olympics will take place without spectators
The blows continue to rain down on those who are now nicknamed “the Pandemic Games”. Scheduled from July 23 to August 8, the Tokyo Olympics will take place mainly behind…
Tokyo Olympics: four questions about Covid cases in the Olympic Village
The black series of these accursed Olympic Games never ends. With the discovery of three positive cases of Covid-19 in the South African football team and one case in the…
The Beijing Olympics between Covid and boycott
normal The Winter Olympics, scheduled in the Chinese capital from February 4 to 20, will have an unusual exposure this year, amid a diplomatic boycott, coronavirus and questions surrounding the…
How the Tokyo 2020 Olympics became the most expensive in history
It’s a classic at every Olympiad. Did the organizers manage to hold the purse strings or did they, like so many other illustrious predecessors before them, have to resolve to…
INFOGRAPHICS. Japan and the Tokyo Olympics caught up by the Covid-19
The Japanese government decided on Friday to extend the state of emergency in Tokyo and extend it to four other departments, as the health crisis worsens and also affects participants…
Tokyo Olympics: what assessment for the “Pandemic Games”?
The pandemic has affected almost every aspect of the Tokyo Olympics, from their historic postponement last year to being held almost entirely behind closed doors this summer, and buried the…
Covid-19: two weeks before the Beijing Winter Olympics, where is the epidemic in China?
Long mandatory quarantines on arrival in the territory, targeted confinements, massive screenings, mobile applications for tracking movements and drastic limitation of international flights… Thanks to these particularly strict measures, life…
HRW: Beijing Olympics should be boycotted at the diplomatic level
In its annual human rights report released Thursday, Human Rights Watch (HRW) focused on threats to democratic structures around the world. In an interview with AFP ahead of the annual…