Tag: olympics-2024
Psychological support for athletes, a “business” that benefits “margoulins”
Christine Arron during the 100m semi-final at the 2004 Olympic Games, in Athens, August 21, 2004. DPPI-SIPA With twenty years of hindsight, Christine Arron speaks about it with detachment, accepting…
Pierre-Ambroise Bosse, a colorful figure in French athletics, ends his career seven months before the 2024 Olympics
On August 8, 2017, Frenchman Pierre-Ambroise Bosse was crowned world champion over 800 meters in London. MATT DUNHAM / AP “I want to go to the Games but I know…
“Coaches are not trained in sports psychology”
Psychology researcher Jean Fournier in Châtenay-Malabry (Hauts-de-Seine), September 22, 2023. ED ALCOCK/MYOP FOR “THE WORLD” Jean Fournier is a psychologist, lecturer at Paris-Nanterre University and former president of the French…
In France, the mental preparation of athletes has become essential but is still not regulated
Fabien Galthié and the French rugby team at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh (Scotland), August 5, 2023. DAVID GIBSON/FOTOSPORT/SHUTTERST / DAVID GIBSON/FOTOSPORT/SHUTTERST “In our time, the mental trainer had absolutely no…
Are you ready for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games?
There you go, 2024 is here, or almost. And in seven months, on July 26, the ships will set sail on the Seine for an opening ceremony of the Olympic…
for surfing in Tahiti, “it is the IOC and the Organizing Committee who have the last word”
If the International Surfing Federation (ISA) proposed, Tuesday, December 19, to do without the construction of an aluminum tower for the judges of the Olympic surfing event at the Teahupoo…
at the time of sport, a major national cause, the worrying situation of swimming pools in France
The Judaica Jean Boiteux swimming pool, Bordeaux, October 2023. BRIAN REYNAUD FOR M LE MAGAZINE DU MONDE Learning spaces, places of relaxation or competition, islands of freshness… It’s difficult not…
Real estate: how to invest in the hotel industry?
COLCANOPA At the end of the year, the French hotel industry is getting dressed up to welcome customers in a festive atmosphere. But, in France, tourist activity is almost permanent,…
film shootings will be banned in the capital for the first time for three months
Mindy (Ashley Park) and Emily Cooper (Lily Collins) in an episode of the series “Emily in Paris”, created by Darren Star, in 2022. NETFLIX For the cinema industry, the Olympic…
“There are obviously plans B” for the opening ceremony in the event of a “potential threat”, according to Emmanuel Macron
“There are obviously plans B, plans C, etc..”for the organization of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games, scheduled for the Seine on July 26, 2024, assured the Head…
football and the Paralympic Games, two challenges in terms of ticketing
The president of Paris 2024, Tony Estanguet, during a review with the press, Wednesday December 20, in Saint-Denis. BERTRAND GUAY / AFP “An unprecedented enthusiasm in the history of the…
What legacy for Paris 2024? Difficult aftermath after Athens 2004
Abandoned, the former Olympic baseball stadium located on the grounds of the former Hellinikon international airport (a suburb of Athens), October 25, 2017. ARNE MüSELER To the north of Athens,…