Tag: Olympics
Finland has a medal streak in judo, the mega-sport of the Olympics – it all started with a wild cabinet change
Finnish judo got a jackpot when Rok Draksic was appointed head coach. Martti Puumalainen’s tournament win, coached by a Slovenian, is one of the toughest Finnish sports achievements of the…
Paris Olympics: hotel room prices explode
Tuesday, August 8, the newspaper Le Parisien unveiled a survey in which it shows how much the hotels in Île-de-France have increased their prices for the period of the Olympic…
Ugo Legrand or the call for the Paris 2024 Olympics
After eight years off, Ugo Legrand, bronze medalist at the 2012 Olympic Games in less than 73 kg, dreams of competing in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. A possible bet…
Paris Olympics: intellectuals mobilize in support of booksellers on the banks of the Seine
The Parisian booksellers, the largest open-air bookstore in the world, present for 450 years on the banks of the Seine, refuse to be moved by the authorities to ensure the…
Swimming in Paris: one year before the Olympics, the challenge of rainwater
With the rain which continues to fall on the capital this Friday, uncertainty still hovers over the open water swimming worlds, which are to be held on Saturday August 5…
Melbourne 1956 Olympics: politics do not spare athletes
The year 1956, one of the most turbulent of the post-war period, was not lacking in events: the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Budapest…
Sylvain Ripoll dismissed from his position as coach of the Espoirs one year before the Olympics
Sylvain Ripoll was dismissed from his position as coach of the France U23 team one year before the Paris Olympic Games, according to information from several media released on Monday…
The plan to succeed – forget the Olympics
Facts: This is how the Olympic qualifiers work After criticism from specialist sports associations about tough qualification rules, the SOK, the Swedish Olympic Committee, changed its selection criteria for the…
2024 Olympics and video surveillance: should we be afraid?
July 26, 2024, opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. On the banks of the Seine, in Paris, the athletes and the Olympic flame parade slowly under the applause of a…
Olympics 2024: Paris relies on sobriety… not necessarily on consensus
It’s no secret. Moreover, the sports deputy of the City of Paris proclaims it loud and clear: “The fallout from the Paris 2024 Olympics should above all benefit Seine-Saint-Denis, where…