Oldest surviving French Torchbearer carried Flame again at 99!
One of the first Frenchmen to carry the Olympic Flame has now become a Torchbearer again in 2024. 99 year old Daniel Rebiffé took the Torch in Étampes, some 50 kilometres southwest of Paris, on stage 64 of the Relay. […]
Lyon and Lille – Once Olympic Bid Cities
Lyon and Lille will stage Olympic events for the first time this week as part of Paris 2024, but both cities had previously bid for the Games in their own right. On Wednesday Iraq against Ukraine is the first of 11 Olympic football matches at the Stade Lyon. […]
Johnson’s Golden Spike Among Athletic Treasures on Display in Paris
A golden running shoe worn by Michael Johnson when he completed the 200m and 400m double in 1996 is to be put on display in Paris for the duration of the 2024 Olympics. Johnson set a world record when he won the 200m at […]
Kevan Gosper – Tribute from a Friend
On July 19, 2024, just as he was preparing to leave Australia to attend the Olympic Games in Paris. the Olympic Movement lost one of its most devoted supporters with the death of Richard Kevan Gosper. It was typical of Kevan that, even at the age of 90 […]
Paris Opening Ceremony 100 Years Ago
Although shrouded in secrecy it is safe to say that next Friday’s Opening Ceremony on the River Seine will look very different to the last time the Games were held in Paris a century ago. In 1924, the Opening Ceremony took place at the Stade de […]
Cecil Healy Tribute
Australian Olympians Michelle Ford and Kaarle McCulloch have laid floral tributes at the grave of 1912 Olympic swimming gold medallist Cecil Healy who was killed on the battlefields of the Somme in 1918 only 73 days before the first world war came to an end. Healy was a second lieutenant […]
Torch Relay Arrives in Paris for Bastille Day
Thierry Henry was the first runner to carry the Olympic Torch along the Champs-Élysées as the Relay arrived in Paris to coincide with Bastille Day, a national day of celebration in France. “This is truly enormous, emotions are right up here,” admitted […]
Host Country Flag Bearers Selected
Swimmer Florent Manaudou and discus thrower Mélina Robert-Michon have been chosen to carry the French flag at the Paris 2024 Olympic Opening Ceremony. Robert-Michon first competed at Sydney 2000 and is set to take part in her seventh Olympics. She won […]
Greek Flag Bearers for Paris Named
The Parade of nations at Paris 2024 is set to be led by two Greek flag bearers: basketball Star Giannis Antetokounmpo and walker Antigoni Drisbioti. Since 1928, Greece has always had a place of honour in recognition of the Games of antiquity held in Ancient Greece. […]
100 years after Paris 1924 Flame Visits Coubertin’s Childhood home
Exactly 100 years to the day since the 1924 Paris Olympics were officially opened, a large and enthusiastic crowd including local school children watched as double Olympic basketball medallist Sandrine Gruda […]