Tag: Paris 2024
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Seine Olympic Swimming Test Cancelled as Heavy Rains Damage Water Quality | France 24
Heavy rains have set back plans to test Paris’ readiness for swimmers to race in the River Seine at next year’s Summer Olympics but Games organizers say the waterway will be better prepared in 2024. Read France 24
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Rioters Burn Paris Olympics Training Pool in Third Night of Protests Over Fatal Police Shooting of Nahel M
Flames engulfed the 2024 Paris Olympics aquatic training center Friday as rioters protesting the death of a teenager at the hands of police carried into a third night. The intense blaze appeared to overwhelm the still-under-construction pool, sending thick black plumes into the sky in Saint-Denis, roughly four miles north of Paris, video shows. Though it…
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French Olympic Committee in Turmoil as President Resigns | France 24 English
Sports Minister Amelie Oudea Castera on Thursday called on the French National Olympic Committee (CNOSF) to rally together after their president Brigitte Henriques quit her post only 14 months before Paris hosts the Olympic Games.Henriques’ dramatic resignation at the committee’s general assembly comes after a year-and-a-half of internal squabbling and a very public disagreement with…
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Australian Athletes to Be Kicked Out of Olympic Village Straight After Their Events in Paris | The Project
Australian athletes participating in the 2024 Paris Olympics will be told to leave the Athletes Village as soon as their events are over, in an attempt to discourage partying. Olympic swimmer Cate Campbell tells us why the change is being made.
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File: Men Can Compete in Artistic Swimming at 2024 Paris Olympics | CGTN Sports Scene
Men can compete in Olympic artistic swimming for the first time at the 2024 Paris Games, World Aquatics said on Thursday. Approval from the International Olympic Committee means a maximum of two men can be selected among eight athletes in the team event that is due to include 10 nations. Artistic swimming, formerly known as…
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Aquatics Olympic Qualification System Principles Published for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games | FINA
FINA worked closely with the IOC Sports Department and the leadership of FINA Technical Committees, and consulted with National Member Federations, to develop the aquatics qualification principles for the Paris 2024 Games. Among the highlights: Athletes will compete in 49 Olympic medal events across five aquatics disciplines – swimming, artistic swimming, open water swimming, diving,…
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Olympic Hopeful Braves the Waves to Keep Training Despite COVID Restrictions | TaiwanPlus News
Hong Kong swimmer Jody Lee is running out of time to qualify for the Olympics. The 15-year-old swimmer only has two years left to grab a spot at the 2024 games in Paris, but COVID-19 restrictions are preventing him from getting in the water.
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Paris 2024 scraps temporary aquatics venue in cost control measures
The Paris 2024 organising committee has made further revisions to its construction plans, announcing that it will no longer build two temporary venues as part of a suite of cost control measures to ensure the French city delivers the Olympic Games within its initial €3.8bn ($4.5bn/£3.5bn) budget. Paris had originally planned to build a permanent…
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IOC member Guy Drut says plans for 2024 Paris Olympics are ‘obsolete and outdated’ because of virus
Plans for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are “obsolete and outdated” in light of the coronavirus pandemic, International Olympic Committee member and former French sports minister Guy Drut said Sunday. Drut, who won gold in the 110-meter hurdles in 1976 and took silver in 1972, wrote in a column for Franceinfo that the Olympic…