bob World Cup out for Olympic champion Nolte after a fall in two-man bobsleigh Two-man bobsleigh Olympic champion Laura Nolte (front) and Neele Schuten start on the track. photo © Friso Gentsch/dpa/archive image For two-man bobsleigh Olympic champion Laura Nolte, the World Championships in St. Moritz came to an early end. For two-man bobsleigh Olympic champion Laura Nolte, the World Championships in St. Moritz came to an early end. The 24-year-old from Winterberg fell in the third of a total...
Status: 03.02.2023 3:29 p.m In a joint statement by the ministers responsible for sport, the Baltic states and Poland have firmly opposed the IOC's push to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes back into world sport. Poland's minister spoke of a coalition of almost 40 states and indicated a possible broad boycott of the 2024 Olympic Games. On the other hand, there was approval for the IOC plans from US politicians. "We, the sports ministers of the Baltic States and Poland,...
"It's in Marseille that it all begins". Tony Estanguet, president of the organizing committee for the Paris 2024 Games, announced that the Olympic flame will start its journey across the country from the most Greek of French cities. She will make a "spectacular" entry into the Old Port aboard the Bélem, a famous three-masted sailboat, one of the oldest in Europe. The latter will have been recovered the flame in Athens after it had been rekindled in Olympia, where the...
Summer Games 2024 IOC condemns Ukraine's Olympic boycott threat The 2024 Summer Games will be held in France's capital, Paris. photo © Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone/dpa The International Olympic Committee has condemned Ukraine's threat to boycott the Paris 2024 Summer Games. The International Olympic Committee has condemned Ukraine's threat to boycott the Paris 2024 Summer Games. The threat violates the fundamentals of the Olympic Movement and the principles it stands for. "It is extremely unfortunate to escalate this discussion at this early...
"Trojan horse" of widespread video surveillance for environmentalist and communist senators, "essential" measures to secure the 2024 Paris Olympics for others, the Olympic bill very focused on security was widely adopted Tuesday by the Senate . The text was voted on by 245 votes for and 28 votes against. Examined under accelerated procedure (only one reading per chamber) it will be transmitted to the Assembly.Debated last week, its flagship article allows the experimentation of cameras equipped with algorithms to detect...
9:49 am: "A missile would take a minute": when Johnson says that Putin "threatened" himFormer British Prime Minister Boris Johnson recounts in a BBC documentary that Russian President Vladimir Putin "sort of threatened" him before the invasion of Ukraine, saying: "A missile would take a minute ". In this three-part documentary, the first episode of which is broadcast Monday evening on BBC Two, the former head of the British government recounts his "very long" and "extraordinary" call with the Russian...
Games 2024 in Paris Debate about Olympic participation: Russia can hope for leniency from the IOC IOC President Thomas Bach was previously very close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, but now he is pushing for Russian athletes to take part in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris © Bernd Weisbrod / DPA The IOC wants to enable Russian and Belarusian athletes to take part in the Olympic Games in Paris and has the backing of many associations worldwide. In this...
Status: 01/25/2023 11:28 am Relatives of the victims of the 1972 Olympic assassination have long struggled for recognition and compensation - now the historical processing follows. A commission should be set up for this purpose. Many details are still unclear. By Jan-Christoph Kitzler, ARD Studio Tel Aviv The processing of the 1972 Olympic assassination is under way: In the summer of last year, immediately before the 50th anniversary of the attack on the Olympic Games in Munich, there was initially...
17th matchday Wolfsburg wipes off Hertha in the Olympic Stadium Wolfsburg's Mattias Svanberg (l) cheers after his opening goal in Berlin. photo © Soeren Stache/dpa In this condition, Hertha BSC is relegated from the Bundesliga. The Berliners suffered a clear defeat against Wolfsburg, who were still happy with the offensive fun. After the next debacle, the Hertha players were greeted with icy silence. When going into the curve, there weren't even whistles from the disappointed supporters. Niko Kovac gave his...
Since this summer, the second hottest in history ever recorded in France, with several episodes of very hot weather, the question of the acclimatization of athletes during the Olympic Games (July 26-August 11) has become even more significant. .How are athletes going to acclimatize to extreme heat? Both during competitions, but also during their recovery phases, in their rooms in the Olympic Village?Straddling Saint-Denis, Saint-Ouen and Saint-Denis Island, near the Seine, the village, which should be completed by the end...
