Etiket: Athletes
Paralympic athletes | The tip of the iceberg
What if, for an Olympic medal, we offered performance bonuses to male athletes and none to female athletes? Posted at 9:27 p.m. Nicholas Richard The Press “Everyone would very quickly…
War in Ukraine | Ukrainian athletes call for suspension of Russian athletes
As the Paralympic Games are due to begin on March 4 in Beijing, a large group of Ukrainian athletes is calling for the Russian and Belarusian National Olympic and Paralympic…
Climate of tension among athletes
After participating in the Beijing Olympics, several athletes are going through difficult times as a climate of tension exists following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. • Read also: [EN…
After a 32:31 flight, our athletes arrived
Following a stop in Vancouver, the next destination was Montreal on Air Canada. The reception of our athletes was filled with joy, tears and above all a lot of pride.…
Canada to send 49 athletes to Beijing Paralympics
The Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) has announced that 49 athletes will represent Canada at the Paralympic Games in Beijing next month. Of this number, 25 athletes are already Paralympic medalists,…
Review of the Beijing Games | The authenticity of athletes
(Zhangjiakou) “Are you okay? Your toes aren’t too cold? The questions do not come from journalists. It is rather an athlete, Simon d’Artois, who addresses the reporters. In the mixed…
smiles and tears with the French athletes
Posted on 02/19/2022 22:39 Update on 02/19/2022 23:15 France 3 Article written by The Beijing Olympics will end on Sunday February 20, with the traditional closing ceremony. The opportunity for…
At the Olympics, athletes torn between China and the United States
The Beijing Winter Olympics have had their share of controversy and debate. They were notably the scene of a new series of verbal clashes between China and the United States.…
mentalities are progressing but motherhood remains a taboo subject among top athletes
In the summer of 90, Maryse Éwanjé-Épée, 26, was by far the best French jumper. Finalist at the Seoul Olympics two years earlier, she is undisputed in the France team.…
Beijing 2022 | Athletes to watch on Thursday
PHOTO PAUL CHIASSON, THE CANADIAN PRESS MEN’S HOCKEY | CANADA v. GERMANYTHURSDAY, 8:10 a.m.We all know that NHL players are still in action on this side of the world. Still,…
Beijing 2022 | Athletes to watch on Wednesday
PHOTO BERNARD BRAULT, THE PRESS SNOWBOARDING | MEN’S SNOWBOARD CROSSSTART: WEDNESDAY, 10:15 p.m.FINAL: THURSDAY, 2:15 a.m.At 20, Eliot Grondin, pictured, will be having his second Olympic experience in snowboard cross.…
Beijing Olympics: extreme cold complicates the task of athletes
Skiers and snowboarders are usually fearless. But in the mountainous area of the Beijing Olympics, the wind and snow make them shiver. Zhangjiakou, a city 200 kilometers northwest of Beijing,…
COVID-19: the performance of athletes little affected by the disease
Athletes who contract COVID-19 come out of it little, if at all, confused in their path to performance. As proof, Canadian athletes participate in the Olympic Games at the top…
At the Beijing Games, the conditions of isolation are denounced by the athletes
In Beijing, athletes are using social media to denounce their quarantine conditions. The organizing committee of the Olympic Games said Sunday that it took note of the complaints. China has…
Beijing 2022 | Athletes to watch on Sunday
Women will lead the charge in Beijing The change was orchestrated at the Tokyo Olympics last summer. Increasingly, women are the big stars of Olympic events. The trend seems to…
Beijing 2022 | Athletes to watch on Saturday
Women will lead the charge in Beijing The change was orchestrated at the Tokyo Olympics last summer. Increasingly, women are the big stars of Olympic events. The trend seems to…
For our athletes | The duty
This fall, the series Turn, about the post-career of an Olympic athlete, was broadcast on Noovo. Then, on January 22, it was the turn of the documentary I believed in…
Repression of athletes | US sanctions Belarusians
(Washington) The US State Department announced in a statement on Thursday “to impose visa restrictions” on several nationals of Belarus for “their involvement in serious activities to suppress dissent abroad”,…
Artificial snow, sanitary bubble, Olympic village … the first reactions of athletes in Beijing
That’s it, they’ve arrived! The athletes from Savoie and Haute-Savoie set foot in Beijing, in an environment marked by the strict anti-covid health protocol. A health bubble has been put…
China | Newspaper accuses US of paying athletes to ‘disrupt’ Olympics
(Beijing) An official Chinese newspaper has accused Washington of “inciting” athletes to “create disturbances” during the 2022 Beijing Olympics, in particular by paying them, an accusation firmly denied on Saturday…