Tag: Paris 2024
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Australia Picks Its First Athlete for Paris 2024 | 9 News Australia | 9 News Australia
Swimmer Chelsea Gubecka has been chosen as the first athlete for Australia at Paris 2024.
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Paris Olympics Swimming Test Event Cancelled Over Water Quality Fears | Euronews
This weekend’s cancellations pose a new challenge to the Paris Olympics organizers and the city’s ambitions to reopen the iconic river to public swimming after the Games.
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No Seine, No Gain: Triathletes Compete 1500m River Swim in Paris | Euronews
The countdown to the Olympics and Paralympics in 2024 has begun.
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Seine River Pollution Fears Trigger Olympics Swimming Test’s Cancellation | WION Climate Tracker
A pre-Olympic swimming competition in Paris was canceled, due to poor water quality in the river Seine, casting doubt over the French government’s plan to clean up the river before next summer. The event was going to serve as a test for next year’s Paris Olympics.
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Paris Cancels Olympic Swim Test in Seine Due to Water Quality | Al Jazeera
The first swimming competition due to be held in the River Seine in Paris has been canceled because of pollution. The test event ahead of next year’s Olympics was called-off after a week of persistent heavy rain in the city caused sewers to overflow into the river.
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Seine Olympic Swimming Test Cancelled as Heavy Rains Damage Water Quality | France 24
Heavy rains have set back plans to test Paris’ readiness for swimmers to race in the River Seine at next year’s Summer Olympics but Games organizers say the waterway will be better prepared in 2024. Read France 24
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Rioters Burn Paris Olympics Training Pool in Third Night of Protests Over Fatal Police Shooting of Nahel M
Flames engulfed the 2024 Paris Olympics aquatic training center Friday as rioters protesting the death of a teenager at the hands of police carried into a third night. The intense blaze appeared to overwhelm the still-under-construction pool, sending thick black plumes into the sky in Saint-Denis, roughly four miles north of Paris, video shows. Though it…
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French Olympic Committee in Turmoil as President Resigns | France 24 English
Sports Minister Amelie Oudea Castera on Thursday called on the French National Olympic Committee (CNOSF) to rally together after their president Brigitte Henriques quit her post only 14 months before Paris hosts the Olympic Games.Henriques’ dramatic resignation at the committee’s general assembly comes after a year-and-a-half of internal squabbling and a very public disagreement with…
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Australian Athletes to Be Kicked Out of Olympic Village Straight After Their Events in Paris | The Project
Australian athletes participating in the 2024 Paris Olympics will be told to leave the Athletes Village as soon as their events are over, in an attempt to discourage partying. Olympic swimmer Cate Campbell tells us why the change is being made.