Tag: athletes
War in Ukraine: around thirty young athletes received at the Élysée
Thibaud Hue, edited by Solène Leroux 8:16 p.m., May 13, 2022modified to 11:13 p.m., May 13, 2022 REPORT Almost 80 days of war in Ukraine. At all costs, young athletes…
Paris 2024: Teddy Riner captain of a team of Decathlon athletes for the Olympic Games
Teddy Riner has joined the Decathlon brand and its team for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the sports brand announced on Thursday. A bunch of champions. After notably Gaël Monfils,…
Here are the 10 highest paid athletes in the world in 2022
The ranking of the highest paid athletes in 2022 was published this week. Here are the Top 10. Like every year, Sportico, a specialized media, unveiled its ranking dominated by……
“A unique moment of despair”: one of the best athletes in the United States commits suicide at 21
Sarah Shulze, a brilliant cross-country athlete, died by suicide at the age of 21 on April 13, 2022. The young athlete’s family say she took her own life as she…
Athletes mobilized against Marine Le Pen: “The far right is the end of sport, it’s human sorting, it’s stigma”
Sport may have been banned for the umpteenth time from the presidential election, but its main representatives, rather passive until the first round, are now raising their voices a handful…
headphones to guide blind athletes
To guide blind athletes, researchers from the Ecole Polytechnique’s Applied Mathematics Center have developed a sound spatialization system, presented at the “Physique du sport” conference in Lyon in December 2021.…
Le Cam, Dupont, Parker, Agbégnénou… 50 athletes call to vote Emmanuel Macron
THE SPORT SCAN – Fifty French athletes called to block Marine Le Pen by publicly taking a stand for the current President of the Republic. Olympic champions in shambles, world…
Antoine Dupond, Tony Parker, Laure Manaudou… Many athletes call to vote for Emmanuel Macron
Many French athletes have decided to sign a joint petition calling for a vote against Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election, which will take place…
Sport put to the test by the politicization of athletes
Manchester United players wave the Ukrainian flag ahead of their match against Manchester City on March 6 in Manchester. OLI SCARFF / AFP “Coubertin’s sport is dead and buried, the…
Olympic Games 2024: faced with criticism from athletes, the organizers give up the site planned for basketball
Faced with controversy and technical constraints, the Paris Games officials announced that the Porte de Versailles exhibition center would not host the first phase of the basketball tournament. A new…
CIC Inside: why do professional athletes invest in Esport?
Antoine Griezmann, Gareth Bale, Stephen Curry… Some international athletes have already injected thousands, even millions of euros into projects related to Esport. Investors, often passionate about video games, more and…
“Athletes’ mental health should be assessed in the same way as physical health”
American Simone Biles, bronze medalist on the balance beam at the Tokyo Olympics on August 3, 2021. LIONEL BONAVENTURE / AFP Maintenance. Former professional footballer, Vincent Gouttebarge is the head…