Tag: sport
Olympic Games 2024: in Dugny, a “garden city” after the “Media Village”?
In this summer of 2023, behind the palisades and foliage, the buildings that will accommodate 1,500 journalists during the 2024 Olympics are already standing in Dugny (Seine-Saint-Denis). After the event,…
Women’s football was offside due to role thinking – the road to the World Cup fields was long and equality within the sport has still not been achieved
Physical contact, bellicose combat, competition, grimacing—all things that did not fit in with the ideals associated with the sweet female gender in the late 1800s. – The women who started…
European Model Driving Championship: ‘A great sport’
At high speed, the radio controlled cars shoot across the track at the Floridalaan in Utrecht. The winding, bumpy track is the backdrop for this week’s European Offroad Electric Championships.…
Olympic Games 2024: the athletes’ village, a logistical challenge for Seine-Saint-Denis
The colossus takes shape. For two months, the 37 cranes that cluttered the horizon have all disappeared, like the concrete plants. And it’s a whole district – or rather a…
Lance Armstrong has a strong opinion on trans in sport, scandal in the middle of reality TV show
This time, Lance Armstrong is not talking about him for doping. He has a contested and maligned opinion regarding transgender people in sport… Separated from the cycling world for years…
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…
Olympic Games 2024: these four principles that guided the construction of the sites
They are called “white elephants”. Clearly, sumptuous projects inaugurated with officials in full dress and forceful drum rolls… before turning into a financial abyss. But taxpayers, don’t panic: nothing like…
Every Finnish World Championship para-athlete reached the top eight – a gap in the future of the successful sport of track curling, says an expert
The Finnish para-athletics team won six medals and six Paralympic places at the World Championships in Paris. Toni from Piispa became a double medalist when he took bronze in the…
The nightclub guy goes wild at the athletics competition – the event director was worried if the DJ understands the special features of the sport
ESPOO. At the under-23 European Championships in athletics, the focus is naturally on young athletes. This can be seen in Espoo, for example, in the form of music. So it’s…
Amanda Kotaja didn’t want to risk her health in her minor sport – the World Championship gold made up for the lack of sleep: “Everything culminates in this medal”
Amanda Kotaja had to defend her world championship while recovering. He was surprised that, despite the difficulties, he was able to perform so hard that it brought him the third…