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    LA28 proposes five additional sports for the 2028 Olympics

    2023-10-10T13:22:00Z

    The 2028 Olympic Games Organizing Committee has proposed five sports for the Los Angeles Games, LA28, subject to approval by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). They are baseball-softball, cricket, flag football (a limited-contact version of American football), lacrosse and squash. The LA28 proposal now goes to the IOC Olympic Program ...

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    Fila will continue to outfit Italian ice sports athletes

    2023-09-25T15:55:00Z

    Fila Holdings Corp. has announced that the Fila brand’s partnership with the Italian Ice Sports Federation (FISG) will continue for the entire four-year Olympic cycle until 2026. The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, where the national short and long-track speed skating team and the mixed doubles curling performed in specially designed ...

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    World Boxing announces four new member federations

    2023-09-18T15:38:00Z

    World Boxing, the international federation set up in April 2023 to rival the International Boxing Association (IBA), has announced a new cohort of members. Four new federations have joined the organization – Denmark, Panama, Mongolia and French Polynesia – taking World Boxing’s membership up to 16. Denmark is the sixth ...

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    ​Le Coq Sportif and Paris 2024 unveil apparel range

    2023-08-11T14:36:00Z

    French brand Le Coq Sportif and Paris 2024 have unveiled the Essentiel apparel collection, the first in a series of ranges that celebrate the 2024 Olympics. Two more ranges, dubbed Graphique and Sport, are set for launch by the end of the year. The garments in the new Essentiel Paris ...

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    Usain Bolt joined celebrations for unveiling of 2024 Olympic torch in Paris

    2023-07-31T13:53:00Z

    The Olympic and Paralympic torch for Paris 2024 was unveiled on July 25 and presented hours later on a boat on the river Seine, marking one year to go until the start of the Games. The torch was first held by Tony Estanguet, the president of the Paris 2024 Organizing ...

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    Olympic rings return to the stadium that staged the first Games of the modern era

    2023-05-15T13:22:00Z

    Source: © Dmitry Limonov on Unsplash Panathenaic Stadium The giant Olympic rings that symbolize the Olympic Movement have returned to the stadium in Athens that hosted the first Olympic Games of the modern era in 1896. The rings have been installed once again at the Panathenaic (or ...

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    Fila partners with breakdance champion ahead of the sport’s Olympic debut

    2023-03-08T16:00:00Z

    Fila has announced a new sponsorship agreement with Italian breaking champion Alessandra Chillemi. Breakdancing will be included for the first time on the Olympic Games’ agenda at Paris 2024. Chillemi, 23, was born in Messina, Italy, and is better known as Bgirl. She was crowned Italian Breakdancing Champion at the ...

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    Milan-Cortina 2026 sustainable on paper only?

    2023-02-17T08:12:00Z

    According to the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps (CIPRA), the 2026 Winter Olympics are at risk of becoming a financial and ecological fiasco. In fact, Milan-Cortina 2026 was supposed to be the first Winter Olympics truly committed to sustainability. And the IOC’s sustainability strategy also contains many ...

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    Paris 2024 sports director resigns for personal reasons

    2023-02-06T13:55:00Z

    Jean-Philippe Gatien has resigned from his position as sports director of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games organizing committee. According to Insidethegames, which first reported the news on Jan. 27, Gatien stepped down due to “personal reasons.” Aurélie Merle, executive director of sports competition and deputy sports director on ...

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    Ukraine could boycott Paris 2024 if Russia and Belarus are allowed to compete

    2023-01-31T09:43:00Z

    The Ukrainian sports minister, Vadym Guttsait, has warned that the country could boycott the 2024 Paris Olympics if athletes from Russia and Belarus are allowed to compete. The announcement comes on the heels of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Jan. 25, saying it was favoring “a pathway for athletes’ ...

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    Discovery and EBU obtain European media rights for 2026-2032 Olympics

    2023-01-16T12:44:00Z

    Following a tender by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and Warner Bros. Discovery have submitted and now won a joint bid to acquire all media rights for 49 territories in Europe for the XXV Winter Olympic Games Milan-Cortina 2026, the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad ...

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    European Games admit pádel

    2023-01-04T07:59:00Z

    Pádel is angling for a spot on the list of Olympic sports, which now includes skateboarding, trampoline and even breaking (break dancing). The president of the International Padel Federation (FIP), Luigi Carraro, seems to have taken the sport a step closer to this goal. Back in July 2019, he appealed ...

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    Qatar looking to host 2036 Olympics

    2022-12-07T17:10:00Z

    Qatar is reportedly ready to bid once again to stage the Olympic Games in 2036, despite having failed in the past, according to multiple press sources. Qatar is currently hosting the FIFA World Cup, the first to take place in the Middle East and in a northern hemisphere winter. FIFA ...

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    Paris 2024 reveals its mascots

    2022-11-17T07:51:00Z

    The president of the Games’ organizing committee, Tony Estanguet, has unveiled the identity of the Paris 2024 official mascots for both the Olympic and Paralympic Games, “The Phryges,” named after the iconic French cap, the “Phrygian” (pronounced fri-jee-uhn). Their anthropomorphic design is an evolution of this piece of France’s cultural ...

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    Which countries show the most interest in the FIFA World Cup - and how does it compare to the Olympics?

    2022-10-27T09:41:00Z

    Four out of nine consumers are interested in the FIFA World Cup. How does that compare to the Summer Olympics and who are the fans? YouGov Global Fan Profiles have now revealed that 45 percent of consumers in 50 markets either have “some interest” in the FIFA World Cup or ...

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    Decathlon becomes official partner of Paris 2024

    2022-09-23T09:17:00Z

    Decathlon has become an official partner of the Paris edition of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, scheduled for 2024. The company will be supplying the games’ 45,000 volunteers with a variety of products, holding a number of related events at its 300-odd stores in France, introducing a capsule collection with ...

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    IOC executive board approves strategic framework on human rights

    2022-09-20T13:36:00Z

    The executive board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has approved a strategic framework on human rights. The framework aims to shape the working practices of the IOC, the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement, ensuring that human rights are upheld within their respective remits. The framework builds on the ...

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    Geopolitical challenges affecting preparations for 2024 Paris Games

    2022-09-01T13:25:00Z

    Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Organizing Committee, called for additional sponsors to keep the momentum going. Speaking at a plenary session of the coordinating commission, also attended by the IOC, Estanguet pointed out that the current global geopolitical and economic problems are impacting preparations ...

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    Adidas will give its name to the new Porte de la Chapelle Arena in Paris

    2022-07-13T13:50:00Z

    The Paris City Council has decided that the new sports arena at Porte de la Chapelle, in the north of the city, will bear the name of the German sportswear giant. Following the signature of the naming contract between Société Anonyme d’Exploitation du Palais Omnisport de Paris-Bercy (SAE POBP) and ...

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    Paris 2024 combines art and sport in its Cultural Olympiad

    2022-06-29T12:35:00Z

    The Paris 2024 Organising Committee has launched its Cultural Olympiad, a program in which art and sport enrich each other and interact with the Paris 2024 Games. The Cultural Olympiad explores the connections between art and athletics and the values they share of excellence, inclusion, cultural diversity and universalism, among ...