Tag: olympics-2024
when the reservation turns into a nightmare
In February 2023, overcome by an irrepressible desire to visit the Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Sophie Baron, resident of Ain, engineer and mother of three teenage girls,…
Why do we know less about swimming in Seine-Saint-Denis than in the rest of France?
In France, a little less than half of children do not know how to swim when they enter sixth grade. But in Seine-Saint-Denis, a department which will host numerous aquatic…
Antoine Dupont will take his first steps with the French rugby sevens team
Antoine Dupont, in Marcoussis (Essonne), November 9, 2022. FRANCK FIFE / AFP Now it’s concrete. Antoine Dupont, who announced in November his wish to join the French sevens rugby team…
“For the 2024 Games, our objective is to demonstrate that major events are not incompatible with high social rights”
The co-chair of the Monitoring Committee of the Social Charter for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, Bernard Thibault, during a press conference in Paris, June 19, 2018. ERIC…
“When the magic of sport happens”
VSis Herning, a town in Denmark of around 90,000 inhabitants, located 1,227 kilometers – by road – from Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) and the headquarters of the Organizing Committee of the Olympic…
For Paris 2024, the Olympic projects arrive on time
The athletes’ village, Quinconces sector (Seine-Saint-Denis), December 16, 2023 CHRISTOPHE CAUDROY FOR “THE WORLD” One man savored more than the others this meeting organized on Tuesday December 19, in the…
Dorian Coninx wants to “get rid of the pressure linked to the status of triathlon world champion”
Dorian Coninx during the European Triathlon Championships, in Munich (Germany), August 14, 2022. ANDREJ ISAKOVIC / AFP At the end of September, Dorian Coninx was crowned triathlon world champion after…
the French wheelchair basketball team is not guaranteed to be at the Paralympic Games
Emmanuel Macron participates in a wheelchair basketball match during Paralympic Day, October 8, 2023. ERIC TSCHAEN/POOL/SIPA A few months before the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, it should have…
Mental preparation adapts to the specificities of parasport
Greek Grigorios Polychronidis (right) and his assistant, Aikaterini Patroni, during the individual boccia competition in Tokyo, September 1, 2021. YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP When Sonia Heckel learned, a few months…
In Saint-Ouen, the Generation 2024 label opens the doors of disabled sports to middle school students
More than three hundred schools in Seine-Saint-Denis have the Generation 2024 label. When their physical education and sports teacher talks to them about the Olympic and Paralympic Games, many of…
in fencing, optimizing mental training through science
Suddenly, Kobe Bryant’s clear voice echoes through the classroom. “I meditate every day. If I don’t do this, I suffer my day, rather than being able to control it. No…
How to navigate mental preparation techniques in sport
During training for the French fencing team in Châtenay-Malabry (Hauts-de-Seine), September 22, 2023. ED ALCOCK / ED ALCOCK / MYOP FOR THE WORLD In the age of social networks, what…