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Olympics Opening Ceremony Closed to Tourists Amid Security Concerns

  • 21/09/2024
French authorities said Tuesday that tourists will no longer be able to watch the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics as the nation remains alert for potential security threats during the event. French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Tuesday that a specific security threat has not been identified but that there are multiple potential threats, ranging from attacks from extremist groups and activists to Russian cyberattacks. Over the past decade, France has been targeted repeatedly by Islamic extremists, and last October the country was placed on the highest alert level for terror attacks after a suspected Islamist extremist entered a…
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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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‘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…