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European marathon champion Richard Ringer and former sabre fencing team event world champion Matyas Szabo lead a first group of 13 athletes nominated on Tuesday into the German team for the Paris Olympics. The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) also picked marathon runners Laura Hottenrott, Melat Yisak Kejeta, Domenika Mayer, Samuel Fitwi Sibhatu and Amanal Petros, fencer Anne Sauer, surfers Camilla Kemp and Tim Elter and taekwondo player Lorena Brandl. The DOSB said that the team for the July 26-August 11 Paris Games would comprise "at least 400 athletes." The others are to be picked ...
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The Olympic flame arrived in the southern French city of Marseille on Wednesday, some 11 weeks before the start of the 2024 Paris Games, on board of the three-mast ship Belem. The flame was welcomed with a ceremony, which included fireworks and and a French Air force flyover with planes drawing the five Olympic rings and the red-blue-white colours of the French flag. The torch was then handed over to the first Olympic torch carrier, swimmer Florent Manaudou. According broadcasters BFM, 120,000 people watched the spectacle in the harbour and French President Emmanuel Macron was also in attendan...
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will use a monitoring system powered by artificial intelligence (AI) to protect athletes and officials from online abuse at the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics in Paris this summer. The system will monitor thousands of accounts on all major social media platforms and in more than 35 languages in real time, the IOC explained in a statement on Tuesday. "Any identified threats will be flagged, so that abusive messages can be dealt with effectively by the relevant social media platforms – in many cases before the athlete has even had the chance to see the ab...
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced on Thursday the list of 36 athletes who will be part of the refugee Olympic team at the 2024 Paris games this summer. The team consists of athletes from 11 different countries of origin, among them 23 men and 13 women. They will participate in 12 different sports: aquatics (swimming), athletics, badminton, boxing, breaking, canoe (slalom and sprint), cycling (road), judo, shooting, taekwondo, weightlifting, and wrestling (freestyle and Greco-Roman). The refugee team represents "the world's displaced population of over 100 million people," acc...
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Greece handed over the Olympic flame to the organizers of the Paris 2024 Games in a solemn ceremony in Athens on Friday. The event took place in the Panathenaic Stadium, built entirely of marble, where the first modern Olympics were held in 1896. The national anthems of France and Greece were sung by the celebrated Greek singer Nana Mouskouri in front of around 20,000 spectators and the event was broadcast live on television. "Our best wishes for a successful staging of the 33rd Olympic Games in Paris," said the president of the Greek Olympic Committee, Spyros Kapralos, to the president of the...
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France is testing Artificial Intelligence (AI) based video surveillance on the weekend which could also be used at this summer's Olympics in Paris. The Paris police prefecture has authorised railway company SNCF and transport operators RATP to to analyse images from more than 100 surveillance camera by using intelligent and algorithm-based technology. The test will take place in four stations, around a Black Eyed Peas concert in the Défence Arena and football match between Paris Saint-Germain and Olympique Lyon at Parc des Princes stadium. The software is to recognize people entering non-publi...
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The German Olympic body DOSB presented on Thursday the clothing collection that the German athletes will wear during the 2024 Paris Games this summer. The clothes are mainly in the colours red, black, white and a dark shade of yellow, alluding to the German flag. The athletes will receive a package with a total of 80 items of clothing, including outfits for the opening ceremony, training and podium ceremony, as well as accessories such as sunglasses and socks. In addition to the team clothing, manufacturer Adidas also produced a shoe collection with 49 pieces, covering 41 different disciplines...
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Germany's Sports Aid Foundation will dish out €2.1 million ($2.2 million) in bonuses for successful athletes at this summer's Paris Olympics and Paralympics. The foundation said in a statement on Wednesday, 100 days before the Paris opening ceremony, that gold medallists will receive €20,000, silver medallists €15,000 and bronze medallists €10,000. Athletes placed fourth to eighth at the Olympics and Paralympics will also receive smaller sums. Set up in 1967, the foundation is financed solely through the private sector without any public funds. It said that it is supporting German athletes wit...
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Russia has reacted cautiously to a latest initiative from French President Emmanuel Macron calling for an Olympic Truce during this summer's Paris Games and Paralympics. Kremlin spokesman Dmitiri Peskov was quoted by state news agency Interfax as saying that Moscow has so far not received an according request in connection with their invasion of Ukraine. He said that President Vladimir Putin has been confronted with similar questions in the past but that is was difficult to support such initiatives "because the regime in Kiev normally uses such ideas and initiatives for attempts to regroup and...
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The Olympic flame for this summer's Paris Games was lit on Tuesday in Ancient Olympia, Greece, where cloudy skies prevented the traditional lighting ceremony via the rays of the sun. Instead, a back-up flame was used, lit the previous day during the dress rehearsal. Greek actress Mary Mina, dressed as an ancient Greek priestess, lit the torch after offering a prayer to the ancient Greek sun god, Apollo. The first two torch bearers were Greek 2021 rowing gold medallist Stefanos Douskos and former French swimmer Laure Manaudou who won gold, silver and bronze at the 2004 Athens Games. Internation...
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