The Olympic flame is going for a sail. Instead of arriving overland, the symbolic flame alighting the 2024 Paris Games will take to the seas from its birthplace in Greece, arriving aboard a three-masted tall ship in the French port of Marseille.
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There are only two times in my life that I’ve cried: when my mother left me, and when I received the news that I would be on the first-ever IOC Refugee Olympic Team.
A Greek court has acquitted three activists detained in October 2021 after unfurling banners at the Athens Acropolis opposing the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, their lawyer and activists said on Thursday.
On October 28, the Olympic Refuge Foundation and the IOC Refugee Olympic Team were honored with the 2022 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports at a ceremony in Oviedo, Spain. Yiech Pur Biel – a member of the first-ever IOC Refugee Olympic Team at Rio 2016 and, since 2022, the first-ever refugee elected as an IOC Member – reflects on this historic recognition of the power of sport in helping millions of displaced people around the world, as well as his own journey.
A Court of First Instance in Athens sided with Olympic gold medalist Nikos Kaklamanakis on Thursday in a lawsuit filed against him by the Hellenic Sailing Federation (HSF) for defamation.
Greece’s Olympic Committee (HOC) on Wednesday said it had refused to allow top sailor and Tokyo Olympics competitor Vasileia Karachaliou to go ahead with her attempted nationality shift and compete with Portugal.
“Coexistence, osmosis, is the only way to achieve integration,” the head of Special Olympics Hellas, retired ambassador Dionyssios Kodellas, tells Kathimerini as 900 youngsters with intellectual disabilities head to Loutraki in Corinth for the Panhellenic Special Olympics Games on October 3-7.
The theme of this year’s International Day of Peace – “End Racism. Build Peace” – carries with it particular resonance for the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic Movement.
One by one, they zigzagged down the mountain, near the end of a line of nearly 90 racers in a snowy giant slalom, looking more like ski hobbyists on a weekend jaunt than world-class competitors.
In the Olympic-level snowboarding and freestyle skiing world, there is an innocuous-sounding compound word that almost always evokes a visceral reaction – a deep sigh, a shaking of the head, a knowing nod.
China did not move mountains to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. But it flooded a dried riverbed, diverted water from a key reservoir that supplies Beijing and resettled hundreds of farmers and their families, all to feed one of the most extensive snow-making operations in the history of the Games.
Maria Danou, who will compete in cross-country skiing, and Ioannis Antoniou in the slalom, carried the Greek flag and led the procession at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, which started Friday and run to February 20.
In keeping with Olympic tradition, the parade was led into the stadium by Greece with the rest ordered by stroke number in the first character of their Chinese name, which meant Turkey was second, followed by Malta, with host China set to go last.
The Winter Olympics usually escape my attention. But I do want to see the Olympics in Beijing.
Beijing’s Covid-shortened Olympic torch relay began on Wednesday with basketball great Yao Ming and a Chinese soldier wounded in a bloody 2020 border clash with India among the first to carry the symbolic flame on a journey that will last just three days.
The Olympic flame arrived in Beijing on Wednesday amid calls from overseas critics for a boycott of the February 4-20 Winter Games. Beijing’s Communist Party Secretary Cai Qi, the top official in the Chinese capital, received the flame at a closely-guarded airport ceremony. Beijing successfully hosted the Summer Olympics in 2008, although the event failed […]
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