Paris Olympics News

FRANCE-Several hundred pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered on Tuesday close to the offices of the Paris Olympics organizers, demanding that Israel's participation in the Summer Games in the French capital be restricted. Around 300 protesters demonstrated against Israel's "institutional participation" in the Games due to the Gaza conflict in front of the Paris Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games offices in the neighborhood of Saint-Denis. They waved Palestinian flags and chanted anti-Israeli chants. Escalating conflict Protesters argued the International Olympic Committee should follow the same approach

FRANCE-The goal of Paris 2024, cybersecurity firms Cisco and Eviden, and the French national agency for information security (ANSSI) is to lessen the effect of cyberattacks. Compared to other large athletic events, like the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, web apps and other Internet-facing assets associated with the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris seem to be more safeguarded against cyberattacks. Understanding the threat landscape However, considering the significant interest in the event from nation-state entities, hacktivists, cybercriminals, and other attackers, there are still certain holes

FRANCE-The groundbreaking anti-drone technology that France used to safeguard its skies during the Olympics this summer was meant to be a source of pride for the country. However, there is talk across the Channel that the French have been driven into the most humiliating climbdown and have called in the British following a string of embarrassing testing failures. With the opening ceremony less than three months away, France has had to boost its much-vaunted 'Parade' gear with systems that reportedly involve people and technology

PAIRS-The president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said at the introduction of the squad roster for the forthcoming Paris Olympics that over half of the athletes chosen for the 2024 Refugee Olympic squad are from Iran. Fourteen, or over forty percent, of the 36 athletes chosen from 11 different nations are Iranian. Refugee Olympic team composition Due to persistent anti-regime protests and mounting political and economic pressure over the past several years, there has been a significant departure of sportsmen, artists, and skilled professionals from

FRANCE-The head of the International Olympic Committee thinks that the future of his sports organization is brighter than it has ever been, despite challenges from esports competition, artificial intelligence-enhanced doping, and climate change. The 70-year-old German fencer Thomas Bach has been in charge of the Olympic Games' guardian organization in Switzerland since 2013, when enthusiasm for holding the competition was at an all-time low due to many controversies involving expenses and corruption. Thomas Bach's observations When there were just two bidders, Paris and Los Angeles, who

FRANCE-The question lingering over the swimming community worldwide isn't how many medals American Katie Ledecky or French Leon Marchand will win in Paris with two months until the US Olympic swimming trials and three months until the 2024 Olympic Games. Rather, it's this: 23 elite Chinese swimmers, who had all been advised for years not to eat anything they don't trust, were exposed to a prescription heart medication that is only accessible in tablet form and is outlawed. How did this medication get into

FRANCE-In order to prevent potential industrial action, officials stated on Friday that incentives would be given to security personnel, including the deployment of some 6,000 police for the arrival of the Olympic flame in France next month. When the torch comes from Greece on May 8, there will be more police in Marseille's southern port than there was during Pope Francis's September visit to the city last year. When the Belem, a 19th-century sailing yacht, arrives at the harbor, an elite tactical unit, bomb

PAIRS-The operator of Paris airports said on Wednesday that there would be a six-hour closure of the skies above the Paris region as part of the extensive security measures for the Olympic Games opening ceremony on July 26. The head of Aéroports de Paris, Augustin de Romanet, stated that airlines are informed ahead of time of the closure and that they must fly around the restricted area. He stated on France Info radio that "there won't be any aircraft over the Paris region for

PARIS-The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, expressed confidence that the water quality in the Seine River will meet Olympic criteria this summer. She even stated she would be able to swim in the river, perhaps even with President Emmanuel Macron, to demonstrate her point. The Olympic and Paralympic swimming marathons as well as the swimming portion of triathlon competitions are held in the Seine. When asked on Tuesday if she would keep her word to swim in the Seine before the Games, Hidalgo replied,

The Olympic Village is still a famous feature of the Games experience even after a century since it first debuted in a competition, and its history and goals are ever changing.Athletes met on the playing field during the early incarnations of the modern Olympic Games, but there was no formal arrangement in place to accommodate those who traveled to compete. That changed with the construction of the first Olympic Village for Paris in 1924.  Most of the participants were housed in modest wooden huts during