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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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The opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics might not take place along the Seine river if the security situation in Europe worsens, French President Emmanuel Macron told broadcasters BFMTV in an interview on Monday. "We can do it and we will do it," Macron stressed, but he added that plans B and C are being prepared. The French president indicated that, in the event of a threat, the opening ceremony will be "limited to the Trocadéro," or even the Stade de France stadium as a precaution. The opening ceremony will take place on July 26 and for the first time outdoors. Around 160 boats will t...
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Ukraine has once again called for the exclusion of Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Paris Olympics. In an open letter on Friday, the country said some of the athletes competing under a neutral flag, who have qualified for the Games, support Russia's war in Ukraine. The letter was addressed to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the United World Wrestling (UWW). Ten wrestlers were named in the letter - including Russian freestyle specialists Zaur Uguev and Zaurbek Sidakov, who each won gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Several links to videos and social media posts as a...
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France believes it is very well prepared for the 2024 Paris Olympics this summer despite the tense security situation. "We have many possible scenarios related to critical situations," French Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin said in an interview with the Le Parisien newspaper on Tuesday. "During this summer, the mobilization of the forces of order will be able to respond to the three major risks that could affect France: the threat of terrorism, a wave of migration linked to a collapsing country and huge forest fires," he said Although terrorism can strike anywhere, in the end, he said...
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