Etiket: Olympic
Rennes Olympic champion Clarisse Agbegnenou is expecting her first child
Last October, a few months after her two Olympic titles in judo in Tokyo, Rennaise Clarisse Agbegnenou confessed on the show All Sports her desire to have a child before…
A first Olympic medal for Canada in ski jumping
Canada caused an upset in mixed ski jumping. Representatives of the maple leaf took bronze in this event presented for the very first time at the Olympic Games. Posted at…
Olympic Games | Shaun White, the “Red Zeppelin” of snowboarding
(Los Angeles) Nobody embodies snowboarding better than Shaun White: the American, seeking a fourth title at the Beijing Games before retiring, not only has the finest track record in his…
Beijing 2022 Olympic Games: the multiple interests of biathlete Jules Burnotte
Jules Burnotte is a free spirit with diverse interests and opinions who does not intend to be entangled. The biathlete, however, says he understands better today when it is more…
Women’s Hockey, Canada – Russian Olympic Committee | The delayed match, the masked players
(Beijing) The women’s hockey match between Canada and the Olympic Committee of Russia was delayed for several long minutes, in some confusion, while the Canadian players remained in the locker…
Savoyard Johan Clarey silver medalist in the men’s Olympic downhill
He did it ! At 41, the skier from Tignes Johan Clarey wins the silver medal on the men’s downhill this Monday at the Olympic Winter Games. Clarey becomes the…
giant slalom | Valérie Grenier’s Olympic dream comes to an end
Valérie Grenier was ready for the giant slalom event, to be held on Sunday evening. Unfortunately, she could not qualify. Posted at 9:13 p.m. Nicholas Richard The Press The Franco-Ontarian…
Olympic flame | The United States criticizes the choice of a Uyghur athlete
(Washington) The American ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, criticized Sunday the choice of China to carry the Olympic flame, in its last meters Friday in Beijing, by an athlete…
Olympic Games: Ted-Jan Bloemen 10th in the 5000m
While Swede Nils van der Poel won the gold medal in extremis on Sunday in the 5000m long track speed skating event at the Beijing Olympics, Canadian Ted-Jan Bloemen finished…
A first Olympic week in Beijing under the watchful eye of Marie-France Coallier
5 A flamboyant spectacle | Built especially for the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing’s National Stadium, nicknamed the “Bird’s Nest”, has been redesigned for this year’s Games. No less than 3,000…
Olympic Games 2022: In Beijing, between frustration and indifference at not being able to attend the competition
Posted on 02/05/2022 14:15 Update on 02/05/2022 14:23 FRANCE 2 Article written by A. Miguet, G. Caron, J. Xiong, K. Wang – France 2 France Televisions The Olympic Games, usually…
Olympic Games 2022: In Beijing, between frustration and indifference at not being able to attend the competition
Posted on 02/05/2022 14:15 Update on 02/05/2022 14:23 FRANCE 2 Article written by A. Miguet, G. Caron, J. Xiong, K. Wang – France 2 France Televisions The Olympic Games, usually…
JO-2022: Dinigeer Yilamujiang, an Uyghur in the Olympic light
She belongs to an ethnic minority at the heart of the disputes between China and the West: the Uyghur sportswoman Dinigeer Yilamujiang lit the Olympic cauldron of the 2022 Olympics…
look back at the three most significant boycotts of the Olympic Games
Some events have already started, but the Beijing Winter Olympics officially begin on Friday February 4 with the opening ceremony. An event that will be shunned by American diplomacy and…
Beijing notebook: The Beijing Olympic bubbles, or parallel worlds
For three weeks, our reporter Éric Desrosiers and our photographer Marie-France Coallier will share their experience of covering the Beijing Winter Olympics, from the backstage to the competitions. It’s hard…
Short track: 30 years of history and… 33 Olympic medals
Short track speed skating was integrated into the official program of the Winter Olympics in 1992, in Albertville. Since then, Canada has always won at least three medals in each…
Olympic Games | The CIO is not “neutral”, it is complicit
(Beijing) There is a point at which to be “neutral” politically is to be complicit in the dictatorship, and Thomas Bach touched on it this week in Beijing. Posted at…
Guillaume Cizeron and Tiffany Gauthier will try to make the Loire shine at the Olympic Games
Among the 3,000 athletes entered in Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics which start this Friday (1 p.m. French time), 88 will defend the tricolor colors and two will represent…
Beijing Olympics: the Olympic flame on the Great Wall on the eve of the opening
The Olympic flame climbed the Great Wall, the Chinese symbol par excellence, on Thursday, on the eve of the official opening of the Beijing Winter Games, marked by the threat…
Guy Taillefer’s editorial: More political than Olympic
Ridicule does not kill, disinformation either. Meeting in a virtual summit last December, Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin lamented that the United States was “politicizing” the Beijing Winter Games by…