Tag: Olympics
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…
France could become Sweden’s opponent for the Olympics
It is Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur that want to apply for the Winter Games just six years after France had a Summer Games (Paris next year). — The Olympics and…
The 2024 Women’s Tour de France will leave Rotterdam just after the Paris Olympics
A departure from abroad, during the summer holidays: the 2024 edition of the Tour de France women will leave from Rotterdam on August 12, the day after the closing ceremony…