Tag: Olympics
2024 Olympics: the list of all French flag bearers for the Olympics
Here is the list of French flag bearers since this role appeared in 1912 during the Stockholm Games. Being a flag bearer is an honour and a mark of recognition…
Saudi Arabia to host first esports Olympics in 2025
Saudi Arabia was chosen on Friday July 12 to host the first esports Olympic Games in 2025, which will be held there ” regularly ” until 2037. This designation, the…
Seine’s water quality improved to be suitable for swimming during the Paris Olympics | Sports in a nutshell
The water has been swimmable for most of the past 12 days, Paris Deputy Mayor Pierre Rabadan said on Friday. The water quality of the Seine River, which caused concern…
NOW: France moved thousands of homeless people into hiding on the way to the Olympics | News in brief
According to an email seen by the New York Times, homeless people have been evicted from the vicinity of the Olympic venues and the Olympic Village. During the year, the…
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,…