Boxer Cindy Ngamba and Taekwondo athlete Yahya Al-Ghotany will be the flag bearers for the Refugee Olympic Team during the Opening Ceremony at Paris 2024. This was announced today during the 142nd IOC Session in Paris.
The Judo tournament at the Paris 2024 Olympics is set to kick off on Saturday, 27 July, but the Champ-de-Mars Arena, where the competition must be held, is not ready at this moment, Le Parisien reports.
Around 1,000 French police officers were on duty Wednesday to provide security at Israel's football match against Mali at the Paris Olympics, a high-risk occasion which saw fans flying Palestinian and Israel flags.
Boxing made its debut at the modern Olympics in 1904 and has been contested at every Summer Games since, apart from the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm as Swedish law banned the sport at the time.
Double Olympic champion Lukas Krpalek from Czechia is preparing for his fourth Olympic Games. The judo legend won a gold medal at Rio 2016 in -100 kg category and claimed the champion’s title at Tokyo 2020 in +100 kg category.
Michelle Tau became the face of Lesotho (similar to Miss Lesotho) in 2017. Seven years later she is going to compete at her first Olympic Games as a taekwondo athlete.
The 142nd International Olympic Committee Session will take place on 23-24 July at the Palais des Congres in Paris, with the first day of the session dedicated to reports of President Thomas Bach and on the activities of the Coordination Commissions on the next Olympic Games.
US Taekwondo star, CJ Nickolas, won gold at the 2023 Pan American Games and the silver medal at the 2023 World Championships at 80 kilograms, the first U.S. medal in that event since 2009. He bolted to No. 2 in the world rankings in January, making him eligible for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Istanbul Aydin University from Türkiye topped the medal table of the Karate event ат the 2024 European University Games held in Debrecen-Miskolc, Hungary from 16-18 July.
Nigerian Taekwondo star Elizabeth Anyanacho booked her Paris ticket through the African Qualifiers, and now she dreams about the Olympic gold, DW reports.
Three Australian taekwondo athletes have qualified for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games through the Oceania Qualifiers. Stacey Hymer (women's -57 kg) will be competing in her second Olympic Games, while Lewis Bailey (men's -58 kg) and Leon Sejranovic (men's -80 kg) will be making their Olympic debuts.
Iranian-born Dina Pouryounes is the only female taekwondo athlete in the IOC Refugee Team. She has been on an astounding sporting trajectory since becoming a refugee in 2015, the Olympics.com reports.
The Muaythai World Demonstration Team is back in full swing for the Olympic Games. International Federation of Muaythai Associations (IFMA) has promoted the Art of 8 Limbs at the Rio 2016 Olympics and continued this promotion at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires. Although the Tokyo 2020 Olympics saw a pause due to the pandemic, the Demonstration Team will be back in Paris.
Hadi Tiranvalipour spent his first 10 days as a refugee in Italy living in a forest. The Iranian born Taekwondo athlete, a national and continental champion who represented the land of his birth for eight years, is now heading to Paris to represent the IOC Refugee Olympic Team.
Refugee judoka Adnan Khankan is preparing for his Olympic debut at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Being selected for the Olympics was one of the best and most beautiful moments in his life, Khankan told Olympics.com.
When British skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won the Olympic gold medal in ice dance at Sarajevo 1984 with 12 perfect 6.0s from every judge, for their interpretation of Maurice Ravel's Boléro, an important member of their team was singer-actor Michael Crawford. Crawford, who had played Frank Spencer in British sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em and the title role in the musical The Phantom of the Opera, had become a mentor to the pair in 1981 and went on to help them create their Olympic routine. Crawford said he “taught them how to act". He was present with their trainer Betty Callaway at the ringside at Sarajevo as they created one of the most iconic moments in Olympic history.
Reporting to and working closely with the Events Director – Technical Operations, the Head of Technical Officials is responsible for day-to-day management of the Technical Officials programmes within the Events Department, including:
Management of day-to-day technical officials operations including tournament assignments and planning;
Management and development of the professional technical officials workforce including referees, umpires, and tournament doctors;
Technical officials policy development through consultation with key stakeholder groups including commissions, panels, Continental Confederations and working groups;
Innovation initiatives within the technical officials area to enhance officiating accuracy and sport presentation; and
Technical officials pathway development including working with Continental Confederations and Member Associations on recruitment, education, training, and development initiatives.
Pierre de Coubertin once said cricket has "practically no appeal for those who are not British". While he expressed doubts about the Olympic viability of cricket, lacrosse and baseball, Philip Barker wonders how the man who helped revive the modern Games would have reacted to new sports at Los Angeles 2028.
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