Tag: Olympics
2024 Olympics: “Anne Hidalgo will swim in the Seine next week, that’s for sure”
Two weeks before the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the question remains: is everything ready? Interview with Pierre Rabadan, Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of Sport,…
A record number of tickets have been sold for the Paris Olympics | Sports in a nutshell
8.6 million tickets have been sold for the Paris Olympics, breaking the ticket sales record held by the Atlanta Olympics. So far, 8.6 million tickets have been sold for the…
2024 Olympics: Social worker Armel Agbobli chosen for the Olympic flame relay “for her role with women”
The Olympic flame will be in Paris on Sunday 14 and Monday 15 July to mark the national holiday and the memory of the French Revolution. Around forty people will…
Flag bearers for the 2024 Olympics: names revealed on Friday, already leaks
It is this Friday, July 12 that the names of the flag bearers of France for the Olympic and Paralympic Games of Paris 2024 will be officially announced. Two names…
As the Olympics approach, Parisian shopkeepers are more worried than happy
The start of the Paris Olympics begins in 15 days, on July 26, 2024. And everywhere in Paris, people are getting ready. Workers are hard at work setting up the…
2024 Olympics: Former boxer Aya Cissoko is “surprised and happy to carry the Olympic flame to Paris”
After a journey of several weeks since its arrival in Marseille on May 8, the Olympic flame arrives in the capital on July 14 and 15. Around fifty people, artists,…
2024 Olympics: Residents of a city doomed to destruction resist “pressures and irregularities in rehousing”
With 17 days to go until the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, the pressure is mounting for the athletes, but also for the last inhabitants of the Marcel Paul…
In Yemen, shooter Yasmine al-Raimi prepares for the Olympics with whatever means she has
In Yemen, between missile fire from Houthi rebels and American-British retaliatory strikes, shooter Yasmine al-Raimi is training with the means at hand, hoping to fly the flag for her country…
Athletics: Daniel Ståhl far from the top in Hungary with weeks left until the Olympics
The reigning Olympic champion settled for a modest 63.36 – a result that was only good enough for sixth place in the event. Mykolas Alekna, Lithuania, won with his discus…
Héctor Garibay, the man who dreams of making Bolivia shine in the marathon at the 2024 Olympics
Bolivia, which has been at the Olympic Games since 1936, for a total of fifteen participations, is the only South American country that has never won a medal. Héctor Garibay…