All information about the Summer Olympics in Paris 2024
The Olympic flame reaches Marseille on Wednesday
5:31 PM: The Olympic flame is scheduled for Wednesday In France arrive. According to plans, the flame will be brought to Marseille aboard the French three-masted ship “Belem” and from there travel through the country hosting this year’s Olympic Games. The torchlight procession stops at the memorial sites of the two world wars in Verdun and Normandy, the Palace of Versailles, the Lascaux Cave and the castles in the Loire Valley. The French overseas territories are also visited before the fire reaches the capital. The Olympic Games in Paris take place from July 26 to August 11.
The fire for the games was lit on April 16 at the ancient site of Olympia on the Peloponnese peninsula. Then we went on a journey with a torchlight procession Greece.
IOC op Olympia with AI help against hate on social media
Tuesday May 7, 4:42 PM: The IOC wants to use a system based on artificial intelligence (AI) to protect athletes and officials at the Olympic Games against discrimination on social media. The IOC announced this on Tuesday. The system will therefore monitor thousands of accounts across all major social media platforms in real time.
“It is the first time this solution has been used to protect so many people in so many sports. By using AI, we will be able to better understand online violence in sport and develop data-driven strategies and interventions to create a physically and psychologically safe environment for athletes,” said Kirsty Burrows, IOC Head of Safe Sports. “Sports and social media are inextricably linked,” she says. About half a billion messages are expected for Paris 2024.
According to the IOC, the online monitoring system will be available to 15,000 athletes and more than 2,000 officials during the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Four German athletics relay teams Olympia included
Monday May 6, 8:20 am: At the Olympic Games in Paris, German athletics will certainly be represented with four relay teams. The men’s 4×100 meter relay and the mixed 4×400 meter relay took advantage of their second chance to get their ticket at the so-called World Relays in Nassau (Bahamas) on Sunday (local time). A day earlier, the teams had qualified for the Olympic Games in the women’s 4×100 meters and men’s 4×400 meters. However, the women’s quartet in the 4×400 meters still has to worry. The only option the team has left is to secure one of the two starting places that have not yet been allocated through a classification.
After the men’s shorter distance relay failed to finish due to a transition error on the first day of the World Relays, Kevin Kranz, Lucas Ansah-Peprah, Robin Ganter and Yannick Wolf won their race in the repechage round in 38.57 seconds. The mixed quartet with Manuel Sanders, Alica Schmidt, Emil Agyekum and Johanna Martin also secured first place with a changed line-up and a significant increase compared to Saturday in 3:13.85 minutes and thus the Olympic ticket. However, the women’s 4×400 meter relay clearly failed, finishing only fourth in their repechage. Second place would have been necessary for the Summer Games.
The quartet qualified for the women’s 4×100 meters final led by two-time European champion Gina Brückenkemper, narrowly missing the podium and taking fourth place behind the victorious American relay, as well as France and Great Britain. The men’s 4×400 meter relay team finished seventh in the final.
Pistol shooter Walter second in the World Cup – Murche dissolves Olympia-Ticket
Sunday May 5, 12:06 pm: Robin Walter from Reichenbach took second place with the air pistol at the World Cup in Baku. With 238.7 rings, the number three in the world was only defeated by China’s Yu Xie, who won with 243.1 rings. China’s Bowen Zhang came third (218.7). The 26-year-old Walter must now triumph in the internal Olympic qualification on May 18 in Wiesbaden against Michael Schwald, who only finished 37th in Azerbaijan. Schwald won the first match by four rings.
Even without participating in the final, Kathrin Murche from Elsnig had reason to celebrate. The kick shooter met the test of performance with a tenth place in Baku and thus received her ticket to Paris. “I am of course relieved. This year has been very slow so far, so of course I am now happy that I can put that out of my mind and fully concentrate on the preparation,” said Murche and sent emotional greetings to her home trainer Karsten Beth, who died at the beginning of the year: “Wherever he is now, he certainly jumps into the air.”
Ukrainian athletes must maintain contacts with Russians Olympia prevent
5:24 PM: Almost three months before the start of the Olympic Games in France, the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine has issued recommendations to its athletes on how to deal with Russian and given to Belarusian athletes. According to the recommendations published on Thursday, any contact with “representatives of the aggressor states” inside and outside the Olympic competition venues is discouraged. This is intended to prevent possible “provocations”. Ukrainian athletes are also not allowed to participate in discussions with opponents of Olympic starters on social networks.
At joint awards ceremonies, Ukrainians are encouraged to keep their distance from Russians or Belarusians and avoid taking photos or videos together. Ukrainian athletes must also refrain from joint press conferences, interviews and live broadcasts unless this has a direct impact on the competitions. Ukrainians must also report violations of the neutrality requirement by Russians and Belarusians. It was said that additional instructions for sports soldiers could also be issued from the Ministry of Defense or the Interior.
Ukraine has been defending a Russian invasion for more than two years. Authoritarian Belarusian ruler Alexander Lukashenko supports Russia in the war and allowed Russian soldiers to invade neighboring Ukraine from Belarus.
The Summer Olympics will take place from July 26 to August 11 in the French capital Paris. Due to the war, Russian and Belarusian athletes are only allowed to participate as individual starters under a neutral flag under certain conditions.
Germany supplies nine athletes for this Olympia-Refugee team
Thursday, May 2, 4:16 p.m.: Nine refugee athletes, currently in the care of the German Olympic Sports Federation (DOSB), will take part in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The DOSB announced this on Thursday in Frankfurt. A tenth athlete from the Refugee Olympic Team Paris also trains in Germany, but is cared for directly by the International Canoe Federation (ICF). The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has named a total of 36 athletes for the refugee team. According to the DOSB, Germany provides the most refugee participants.
“The Olympic refugee team is an integral part of the Olympic Games and is treated the same as all other teams,” said DOSB President Thomas Weikert. We are proud to care for these athletes who made it to the Olympic Games. “As DOSB, we fully support the IOC’s initiative to establish and promote this team in 2016,” he stressed.
The prerequisite for inclusion in the Olympic refugee team is refugee status recognized by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The athletes will compete under the Olympic flag and will be cared for by former Afghan cyclist Masomah Ali Zada as Cheffe de Mission. She is a member of the IOC Athletes Commission and was part of the team in Tokyo in 2021.
The nine athletes cared for by the DOSB come from Syria, Iran or Afghanistan and they live in Berlin, Cologne and Hannover, among others.
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