Tag: sport
Olympic Games 2024: let’s play the big game! By Jean-Francois Cope
Less than three hundred and sixty-five days before the launch of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, France is preparing to host one of the biggest international events. Guy Drut, Teddy…
Olympic Games 2024: Marseille projects itself as the “capital of the sea”
“A capital of the sea that is still unaware of itself.” It is with this pretty formula that Marie-Dominique Champloy sums up the challenge for the Marseille city of hosting…
The increased popularity of frisbee golf enables Finnish players to become professionals – the European Open gathered the best of the sport for Nokia
The frisbee golf European Open, which landed in Finland last week, gathered an estimated 15,000 spectators for Nokia. The number is exceptional, and the attention the sport enjoys in Finland…
Olympic Games 2024: the new life of the Elancourt hill
“If the Olympic Games take place on the hill of Elancourt, it is a little thanks to our club, savors Thierry Fabre, president of the local Vélo club. We have…
European Model Driving Championships in Utrecht: ‘A great sport’
At high speed, the radio controlled cars shoot across the track at Floridadreef in Utrecht. The winding, bumpy track is the backdrop for this week’s European Offroad Electric Championships. More…
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…