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News briefsMacron participates in the 2nd Paralympic Day ahead of Paris 2024
The 2nd Paralympic Day was held at Place de la République in Paris on Oct. 8, on the eve of the opening of the ticket sales for the 2024 Paralympic Games. The event, which saw the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron, was co-organized by the Paris 2024 Organising Committee ...
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News briefsLe Coq Sportif and Paris 2024 unveil apparel range
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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News briefsUsain Bolt joined celebrations for unveiling of 2024 Olympic torch in Paris
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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News briefsJD Sports to open 1,000-sqm flagship on Champs-Elysées
JD Sports will open a new flagship store at 118 Champs-Elysées in Paris. Passers-by can already see the stickers that have been affixed by the British retailer on the windows of its new space, previously occupied by Mercedes-Benz. JD Sports is planning to inaugurate the store in March 2024, according ...
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News briefsTwo French Alpine regions eye bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics and Paralympics
The presidents of the French regions Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Laurent Wauquiez and Renaud Muselier, have announced that they want to submit a joint bid to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to host the 2030 Winter Olympics. The announcement did not specify venues. Apart from France, Sweden has already expressed ...
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News briefsLe Coq Sportif reportedly seeks €30 million in equity financing
In March 2020, Le Coq Sportif secured an agreement to supply apparel for the French Olympic and Paralympic teams for the Paris 2024 Games. The brand was awarded the kit deal as a result of an apparel supplier tender that was issued in September 2019. Three years later, and just ...
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News briefsWestfield becomes a shopping destination for Paris 2024 official products
The Paris 2024 Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (OCOG) has announced Westfield, part of the Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) group, as an official supporter of the Games, the third level in its national marketing program. Westfield has eight shopping centers in France, located in Ile-de-France, Lyon and Lille. Paris ...
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News briefsNew “Enhanced Games” without drug testing
Aron D’Souza, a Melbourne-born businessman who lives in London, is launching the Enhanced Games, described on the event’s website as “an alternative to the corrupt Olympic Games.” D’Souza plans to stage the inaugural Olympic-styled competition in December 2024. A key specificity of the Enhanced Games is that, contrary to the ...
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News briefsEuropean Refugee Team to compete at European Games in Poland
A European Olympic Committee (EOC) Refugee Team will compete at the upcoming Kraków-Małopolska 2023 European Games later this year due to a joint effort between the EOC and the Olympic Refuge Foundation (ORF). It will be the first time such a team competes in continental Games. The team is set ...
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News briefsFrench Government to distribute 400,000 free tickets for Paris 2024
The French Government will distribute around 400,000 tickets for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games under the “Tous aux Jeux” scheme, which is meant to make the events accessible to all. Around 100,000 of these tickets will be distributed for the Olympic Games and a further 300,000 for the ...
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News briefsNew race walking event to debut at Paris 2024
World Athletics has announced that a new race walking team event will debut at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The new marathon race walk will feature 25 teams, each comprising one male and one female athlete, who will complete the marathon distance (42.195km) in four legs of approximately equal distance. ...
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News briefsAsics opens its first European pro athlete training center
Japanese sports brand Asics has announced the opening of Chojo Camp Europe, the brand’s first European pro-athlete training center. The camp, managed by Dave Klink, is located at Font-Romeau, a commune in France’s Pyrénées-Orientales, near the Spanish border. Font-Romeau is one of the oldest ski resorts in France and the ...
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News briefsTechnogym announces partnership with Paris 2024
Technogym has become Official and Exclusive Supporter of cardio, strength and functional training equipment for the athletic preparation of the athletes who will compete in the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Italian fitness equipment brand will equip 29 training centers in Paris for the athletes to train prior ...
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News briefsFila partners with breakdance champion ahead of the sport’s Olympic debut
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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News briefsFrench Ministry of Sports to establish ethics committee
France’s minister of sports and Olympic and Paralympic Games, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, has announced the creation of a “national committee to strengthen ethics and democratic life in sport.” The committee will comprise qualified personalities from all horizons, the minister said. Once installed, it is expected to present proposals for a reform ...
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News briefsFIFA is reportedly considering taking over the Stade de France
According to French sports daily L’Equipe, FIFA is considering taking over the Stade de France after the football governing body’s president, Gianni Infantino, discussed the matter with France’s president Emmanuel Macron during a meeting in Paris last month, the report says. FIFA has, however, denied its interest in purchasing the ...
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News briefsBT Sport to be renamed TNT Sports, Eurosport follows in the UK and Ireland
BT Sport will change its name following the merger with Warner Bros Discovery last year. The two companies formed a 50:50 pay-TV sports joint venture in September 2022. TNT Sports will take over BT Sport’s live offerings in July. Starting in 2023/24, the Premier League matches will be broadcasted on ...
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News briefsParis 2024 unveils visual identity
The Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (OCOG) for Paris 2024 has unveiled the “Look of the Games,” as the committee describes it in a statement. The visual identity of the upcoming Olympics was presented on Feb. 8 in Paris in the presence of Tony Estanguet, president of ...
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News briefsParis 2024 sports director resigns for personal reasons
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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News briefsGermany and France imagine a “year of sport” at latest meeting
A Franco-German Council of Ministers celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty in Paris on Jan 22 – a treaty of friendship between France and West Germany, signed by President Charles de Gaulle and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on Jan 22, 1963 at the Élysée Palace. The recent Council of ...
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