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Thierry Rey (FRA) / IJF.org

  • 06/03/2024
Interviewing an Olympic champion is something special and always delivers thought-provoking words and ideas; it’s a unique kind of education. Following the stories of the first 28 Olympic champions in the series, winners from 1976 to 2021, we now share the words of Thierry Rey, Olympic champion in Moscow in 1980 in the -60 kg category. Thierry Rey, Olympic champion. Photo by David Finch / Getty Images. We introduced the statistics, the almost impossible feat and the question in our first article in the series, which can be found here: https://www.ijf.org/news/show/151-olympic-champions-tokyo-to-tokyo A reminder of the question: It could be said…
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Bag Stolen on Paris Train Reportedly Contained Olympics Security Plans

  • 06/03/2024
While petty thefts are not uncommon on public transport in Paris, it would seem far-fetched that a bag robbery could upend a major international sporting event. But France faced such a fear earlier this week, after a bag was reportedly stolen on a train in the nation’s capital on Monday that was initially said to have contained security plans for the Paris Olympics that’s just months away. Broadcast network BFMTV reported that a 56-year-old engineer working in the Paris City Hall reported to police that his bag had been stolen after he had just boarded a train leaving for Creil…
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Franklin says to watch Ledecky, McIntosh, Walsh at 2024 Olympics – NBC Los Angeles

  • 06/03/2024
Missy Franklin knows a thing or two about winning Olympic medals in the pool, and a handful of swimmers have already caught her attention ahead of the 2024 Summer Games in Paris. The former American phenom has five Olympic gold medals and a bronze to her name. She last competed at the Olympics 2016 and will once again be watching the swimming action from the outside this summer. Who are the swimmers to watch at the 2024 Olympics in Paris? These three swimmers are already on Franklin’s radar. Katie Ledecky It’s Katie Ledecky’s world, and we’re all living in it,…
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Returning Aidan Walsh ‘grateful’ after easing to opening win

  • 06/03/2024
Aidan and his sister, Michaela Walshbecame the first siblings to box at the same Olympic Games, at Tokyo 2020. Fighting in Northern Ireland colours, the duo both won gold medals at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and are expected to box together again at Paris 2024. Michaela’s career has continued to shine since then, and she secured another Olympic quota for Ireland at the 2023 European Games. However, Aidan’s mental and physical health issues meant that he took a break from the sport before retiring, and it looked like his Paris 2024 dream was over. But with the help of…
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World Olympic Boxing Qualification Tournament 2024: Lakshya Chahar knocked out

  • 06/03/2024
India’s torrid run at the first World Boxing Qualification Tournament for the Paris 2024 Olympics in Busto ArsizioItaly continued with Lakshya Chahar crashing out of the men’s 80kg event on Tuesday. Lakshya Chahar, the reigning national champion in the category, was knocked out by Iran’s Gheshlaghi Meysam, an Asian Championships silver medallist, in the third round of his round of 64 bout on the second day of the competition. The two boxers went toe-to-toe in the first two rounds but it was Meysam who seized the initiative in the final round and knocked Lakshya out with 20 seconds left on…
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Olympic Highlights 03-04-2024

  • 06/03/2024
The President also welcomed the participants of the Olympic Values ​​Education Program (OVEP) Train-the Trainers Workshop held at Olympic House and financed by Olympic Solidarity. The participants are nominated by their NOC and are Olympic education experts. During the training they learned how to disseminate OVEP in their respective countries. Meetings were also held with IOC Executive Board member Robin Mitchell and with IOC Members Anita L. DeFrantz, Marisol Casado, Li Lingwei, Jean-Christophe Rolland and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović. Various current Olympic topics, including the upcoming Olympic Games Paris 2024 and the international geopolitical situation, were discussed. OTHER OLYMPIC NEWS The IOC…
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The iconic Paris 2024 posters by illustrator Ugo Gattoni are revealed

  • 06/03/2024
Paris 2024 posters narrative and creative concept Effervescence and the profusion of details: The Posters have been conceived as a rich and teeming composition of micro-elements and small scenes, within which the spectator can freely stroll and immerse themselves. The public is invited to wander through this vibrant microcosm, discovering new fragments at every glance, in a play on perspective typical of the illustrator: From a distance, a global scene delivers an initial message, then as you approach, new details appear and open the door to a new series of possible narratives. Reverie and fantasy: The Posters plunge us into…
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‘Wokism’ row overshadows launch of Paris Olympics poster

  • 06/03/2024
Paris (AFP) – French conservatives and far-right figures fumed Tuesday at the official poster for this summer’s Paris Olympics, complaining that a Christian cross and the French flag were missing due to “wokism”. Issued on: 05/03/2024 – 19:45Modified: 03/06/2024 – 02:09 3 min Those responsible for the image were “ready to deny France, going so far as to distort reality to cancel its history”, Francois-Xavier Bellamy of the right-wing Republicans party wrote on Top of the list of complaints about the poster, which depicts a stylized panorama of Paris, is the absence of the cross that sits atop the Dome…