Macron Receives Olympic Order After Paris 2024
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach made the presentation at the Élysée Palace in Paris. “The first time we met, it was very quickly clear to me that President Emmanuel Macron was bringing a particular energy and vision to […]
Horses make final bow in Modern Pentathlon
Egypt’s Ahmed ElGendy and Hungarian Michelle Gulyás won modern pentathlon gold at Versailles in competitions which signalled the end of an era for the sport. Since its introduction at Stockholm 1912, it had always included a riding phase, but this will […]
Paris 2024 Ends with Spectacular Ceremony
“That’s it” said International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach as a group of athletes representing all the continents blew out the Flame to close the Paris 2024 Olympics after a tumultuous two weeks. They had included four-time Paris 2024 […]
Breaking Good – First Gold Awarded in New Olympic Sport
Japanese breaker “Ami”, known offstage as Ami Yuasa won the first Olympic gold medal to be awarded in breaking. She defeated “Nika” Dominika Banevic of Lithuania 3-0 after receiving 16 votes to 11. There was scarcely […]
Olympic Climbing 1924 to 2024
A five-second wonder has helped sport climbing take another huge step in its second appearance at the Olympic Games. Veddriq Leonardo of Indonesia took the men’s competition defeating Wu Peng of China in a time of 4.75 seconds. Sam Watson of the United States spent even […]
Women’s Sporting Pioneer Milliat Remembered At Paris 2024
An actress representing women’s sports activist Alice Milliat has been at many of the events this week. She wore a long dress and held a parasol when she appeared among the spectators. Like them she was able to watch a full […]
The Long Tradition of Swimming in the Seine
Much to the relief of Paris 2024 organisers the triathlon events have been completed here in Paris. The marathon swimming event over a 10 km. course is still to come, with the women’s race on 7 August and the men’s on 8 August. There have been very […]
Why Archery Has Always Been Ahead of the Recurve
In the final event of the archery programme for Paris 2024, South Korea’s Kim Woojin defeated Brady Ellison of the United States to claim the men’s individual title. In doing so he completed a clean sweep of gold in all events open to him. It also meant that […]
Olympic Societies meet in Paris as new Coubertin translation unveiled
A new Arabic translation of Baron Pierre de Coubertin’s writings has been presented at a meeting of ISOH members, the International Pierre de Coubertin (IPCC) Committee, the International Fair […]
Historic Triple for Jung and Celebrations for British
It was highly appropriate that the Princess Royal should present the team gold medal in eventing to Great Britain on a day when Germany’s individual Champion Michael Jung also wrote a little history. The Princess, an […]
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