Right-wingers cry foul at Paris Olympics poster

Paris (AFP) – French conservatives and far-right figures fumed Tuesday at the official poster for this summer’s Paris Olympics, complaining a Christian cross and French tricolor flags were missing. Issued on: 05/03/2024 – 15:01Modified: 03/05/2024 – 17:06 2 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 X, formerly Twitter. Top of the list of complaints about the fantastical Parisian panorama is a cross which in real life tops the Dome des Invalides, part of a historic military…

Paris 2024 Hockey Olympic tournaments match schedules to be revealed on 6 March at Olympic House!

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…