Category: Olympic

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Olympic Highlights 03-04-2024

  • 26/07/2025
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

  • 25/07/2025
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

  • 24/07/2025
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…
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World Sailing’s Steering the Course 2024 celebrates Olympic role models

  • 20/07/2025
World Sailing’s Steering the Course 2024 celebrates Olympic role models by World Sailing Mar 5 22:46 HKT World Sailing’s Steering the Course 2024 celebrates Olympic role models © Sailing Energy / World Sailing The fourth edition of Steering the Course, World Sailing’s global women’s sailing festival, will take on a special focus in this Olympic year by celebrating the pathway many of the sport’s role models have taken to the Olympic Games, whether in coaching, officiating or sports administration . The two festivals will take place across the following dates: Festival 1 – Friday 17 – Sunday 26…
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Paris 2024 Hockey Olympic tournaments match schedules to be revealed on 6 March at Olympic House!

  • 15/07/2025
The International Hockey Federation (FIH) is glad to announce that the match schedule of the Paris 2024 hockey Olympic tournaments – women and men – will be unveiled on 6 March at the Olympic House in Lausanne by IOC President Thomas Bach and FIH President Tayyab Ikram. The hockey tournaments of the XXXIII Olympiad will be played in the historical venue of the Yves-du-Manoir Stadium – an Olympic Games arena in 1924! – in Colombes, near Paris. 12 men’s and 12 women’s national teams will compete to clinch the highly coveted Olympic medals! FIH President Tayyab Ikram said: “On behalf…
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Providing sailing news for sailors

  • 14/07/2025
Published on March 5th, 2024 The US Olympic Sailing Program is under significant scrutiny following recent leadership turnover and litigation, but the program has been struggling for decades, highlighted at the London 2012 Olympics when the team failed to medal for the first time. Following those 2012 Games, Sailing World magazine published an interview with Dean Brenner, chairman of US Sailing’s Olympic Sailing Committee. Here’s an excerpt when Brenner was asked if it would be a four-year turnaround or a 10-year job: “I actually don’t even think it’s a 10-year turnaround. I think it’s a 20-year turnaround. And things take…
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A bronze medalist at the Rio Olympic Games has concluded his tennis career

  • 13/07/2025
34-year-old American tennis player Steve Johnson (ATP 242) has announced the end of his professional career. On the night of March 6, Steve lost to Emilio Nava (USA, ATP 134) in the first round of the Indian Wells Masters qualifiers with a score of 7:6, 6:7, 4:6. During his career, Johnson won 4 ATP titles and a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in doubles. His highest ATP ranking position was 21st. He has 4 victories against top-10 opponents (Gasquet, Tsonga, Thiem, Isner), and earned $8,065,568 in prize money. “What an incredible journey it has been.…
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Paris 2024 unveils the iconic posters for the Olympic and Paralympic Games

  • 12/07/2025
Until 10 March, visitors will be invited to discover them in the grande nef of the Musée d’Orsay, where they will be on display. The Iconic Posters are the dream representation of a stadium city, echoing the Paris 2024 slogan “Games wide open” and referring to the concept of the Paris Games: bringing sport to the heart of the city. In Paris, Marseille and Tahiti, Paris 2024 invites spectators to take a stroll through an abundant, joyful universe where every detail tells its own story. The posters, presented as a diptych – an Olympic poster and a Paralympic poster –…