2024 Paris Olympics - Page 5

PARIS (AP) — Israel’s national anthem was loudly jeered before its soccer team kicked off play at the Paris Olympics against Mali on Wednesday night.

Soccer fans are once again causing major problems, this time for the 2024 Olympics as a game between Morocco and Argintina was suspended.

Gay U.S. Olympic soccer player Tierna Davidson is again on the attack against teammate Korbin Albert for her traditional views.

PARIS (AP) — French sprinter Sounkamba Sylla says she has been barred from Friday’s opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics because she wears a hijab, and the French Olympic Committee said it is working with her to find a solution that adheres to the team’s secular requirements for athletes.

Greenie Olympics officials in Paris intend to nix air-condition in their Olympic Village, but the athletes are reportedly not very pleased.

After protesting during the national anthem and enduring imprisonment in Russia, Team USA star Brittney Griner says wearing the red, white, and blue will mean “everything.” The 2024 Games in Paris will not be Griner’s first trip to the Olympics.

President Joe Biden might have stood down from the 2024 race for the White House but that doesn’t mean first lady Jill Biden is giving up on any of her gilded diplomatic ambitions carried out in his name. Far from it.

Pope Francis has called for a ceasefire to armed conflicts to mark the Olympic Games that begin in Paris this week.

Israel’s delegation to the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics received threatening emails referencing the 1972 Munich massacre, phone messages, and even fake invitations to their own funerals this weekend shortly before departing to France.

A French lawmaker declared that Israeli athletes are “not welcome” at the Paris Olympics and called for protests against Israeli participation.

France deployed 45,000 police and gendarmes, as well as 10,000 soldiers, to Paris for the largest military camp in Paris since World War II.

French security forces began locking down large parts of central Paris on Thursday ahead of the hugely complex Olympics opening ceremony next week on the river Seine.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo swam in the Seine River to supposedly show that the water is safe ahead of the Olympic Games.

Congolege man who stabbed and wounded a French soldier has been taken to a psychiatric hospital, French prosecutors said on Tuesday.

U.S. Olympic swimmer Michael Brinegar has been handed a four-year ban for blood doping.

Jackson James Rice, an 18-year-old who was set to become the first Caucasian to represent Tonga in the Olympics, died over the weekend in a tragic diving accident mere weeks before the Summer Games.

Water in the Seine River had unsafe elevated levels of E. coli less than two months before swimming competitions during the Paris Olympics.

When the selectors who picked the roster for Team USA left Caitlin Clark off the team, they did her and the team a tremendous favor.

WNBA star Caitlin Clark delivered a powerful four-word response to her head coach after finding out she wasn’t on the Team USA roster.

News that WNBA star Caitlin Clark would not be on the 2024 Team USA women’s basketball roster, did not go over well.

Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark, who electrified college basketball with her tremendous play and has more than doubled viewership and attendance for WNBA games, will reportedly not be among the 12 players selected for the U.S. Women’s Olympic basketball team.

French authorities on Friday arrested an 18-year-old man from Chechnya on suspicion of plotting an ISIS-inspired terror attack on the Olympics.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected calls from French leader Emmanuel Macron for a truce with Russia during the Paris Olympics and criticised the West for seeking a swift end to the war.

MARSEILLE, France (AP) — Huge crowds gathered Wednesday in the southern French city of Marseille, where a majestic three-mast ship carrying the Olympic torch arrived from Greece ahead of a welcoming ceremony at sunset.

The blades of the Moulin Rouge windmill, one of the most famous landmarks in Paris, collapsed during the night, firefighters said.

French police evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the Seine River on Tuesday.

Action part of a push by local authorities to dismantle makeshift camps as the city prepares to host the Olympics from July 26 to Aug. 11.

The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics could be forced to relocate in light of terror threats, French President Emmanuel Macron said.

“What is happening is nothing short of social cleansing of the city” a member of the migrant aid group Utopia 56 said.

Allegations of “social cleansing” have been made against organisers of the Paris Olympic Games as homeless people, sex workers, and illegal migrants are being taken off the city’s streets and sent to regional France ahead of the event.

The athletes competing at the Paris Summer Games will have plenty of condoms, but they will not have air conditioning.

GENEVA (AP) — Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be allowed to take part in the traditional parade at the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics, the IOC said Tuesday.

The intimacy bans implemented at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to the coronavirus epidemic are officially over. Officials informed Sky News last week that 300,000 will be distributed to athletes visiting France for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

The French government will offer bonuses to civil servants deployed across the capital during the Olympics in a bid to avoid strikes.

The giant opening ceremony to launch the Olympic Games could be moved if France is hit again in the run-up by extremist attacks.

Paris Olympics organizers canceled a swimming test event Saturday in the Seine River because of new concerns about water quality.