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    2024 Paris Olympics

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    USOC taps Boston as 2024 bid city
    Updated: January 9, 2015, 3:06 AM ET
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    Boston Will Be U.S. Bid City For 2024 Olympics
    ESPNBoston.com's Gordon Edes breaks down the U.S. Olympic leaders choosing Boston to be their bid city for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

    DENVER -- The Olympic rings flying over Fenway Park? Could happen.

    U.S. Olympic leaders surprisingly cast their future with Boston on Thursday, hoping a compact, college-centric bid with a touching story to tell will overshadow the city's well-organized protest group and convince international voters to bring the Summer Games to America after a 28-year gap.

    Not only does Boston not need the Olympic Games, it more importantly can't afford them, writes Gordon Edes. Story

    During a daylong meeting at the Denver airport, U.S. Olympic Committee board members chose Boston, with its promise of frugality, reusable venues and inspiration after its comeback from the marathon bombings, over Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington for its 2024 bid.

    "Today's selection by the USOC is the beginning of an incredible opportunity for Boston," said the city's bid chairman, John Fish, who will be part of a celebratory news conference Friday with the USOC leadership.

    Boston joins Rome as the only other city that has officially decided to bid. Germany will submit either Hamburg or Berlin, with France and Hungary among those also considering bids. The International Olympic Committee will award the Games in 2017.

    America's previous two attempts to land the Games resulted in embarrassments -- fourth-place finishes for New York (2012) and Chicago ('16).

    The selection of one of the country's most history-steeped cities comes as something of a shock to insiders, who viewed two-time host Los Angeles as the safest choice and San Francisco as the sexiest. But a compact bid highlighted by a frugal spending plan -- along with Boston's energetic leadership team led by Fish, the construction magnate -- outweighed doubts that surfaced because of the city's organized protest group and less-than-perfect history in delivering big projects such as the Big Dig.


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    USOC board members chose Boston over Los Angeles, San Francisco and Washington during a daylong meeting at the Denver airport Thursday, capping campaigns spanning more than a year.

    Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, who attended the bid presentations last month, said it was "an exceptional honor" to be chosen.

    "This selection is in recognition of our city's talent, diversity and global leadership," the first-term mayor said. "Our goal is to host an Olympic and Paralympic Games that are innovative, walkable and hospitable to all. Boston hopes to welcome the world's greatest athletes to one of the world's great cities."

    Fenway Park and its Green Monster would be part of the plan. The Boston Marathon course probably wouldn't (too downhill). But chances are there would be subtle references to the 2013 bombings near the finish line that killed three people -- a touching way to show how a city can pull together.

    "The city has taught all of us what it means to be Boston Strong," the White House said in a statement. "The President and First Lady couldn't be prouder of this accomplishment and of all of our nation's athletes, and strongly support the effort to bring the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games to the United States."

    Seeking to become the first American host for the Summer Games since Atlanta in 1996, Boston focused on its ability to use the more than 100 universities throughout the area to house events and athletes.

    It touted a walkable, technology-based Olympics with an operating budget of less than $5 billion (considered frugal by Olympic standards). It said as many as 70 percent of its venues would not stand permanently, and a new main stadium might be shrunk to someday host a soccer team. Colleges might pay for many of the venues, then take them over after the Games.

    "There's a lot of pre-existing infrastructure that's available" because of the colleges, USA Gymnastics president Steve Penny said. "That's one of the reasons Boston can work at a really high level."

    Just as quickly as the celebratory statements were coming out, the protest group, No Boston Olympics, was revving up its own act, stressing that the state's priorities should include safe communities, quality education and responsible environmental policies.


    "An Olympics ... threatens to divert resources and attention away from these challenges -- all for a chance to host an event that economists say does not leave local economies better off," the group said.

    No Boston Olympics was the only protest group picketing outside the USOC meeting where the cities made their presentations last month, but USOC chairman Larry Probst was among those who said at the time that it was simply part of the bid business.

    "Any time you're going to do something this big, there's going to be pockets of resistance," Penny said. "It doesn't matter which city is chosen."

    Gov. Charlie Baker, who was sworn in earlier Thursday, said he would work to keep costs down and deliver on the promise of a privately funded Olympics.

    "The history of the Olympics is that it always costs taxpayers," said Chris Dempsey, the protest group's co-chair. "It's especially concerning when they haven't released the bid. How are we supposed to take them at their word when we can't see the details?"

    One task the USOC has to start on immediately is introducing Boston to the world. Though well-known for the marathon, it isn't a huge dot on the worldwide map. Often, however, that can work in a city's favor, as it gets to define itself rather than come in with tons of pre-existing notions.

    Just as important will be the USOC's relationship with the rest of the world. It was not good six years ago, when Chicago took the hit with its last-place finish in a contest won by Rio de Janeiro. Recently, IOC president Thomas Bach outlined a new agenda that called for a more streamlined bidding process and future Olympics that didn't cost as much and didn't leave as many white elephants behind.

    With a plan centering on colleges, compactness and frugality, Boston convinced the USOC it understood the vision.

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    I have relatives and friends living in Japan.

    They invited me over for 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

    I might go.

    Anyone going?


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    You should definitely go SPJ

    I had the opportunity to go to the LA Olympics in '84 but I passed. I've always regretted that.

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    Of course by 2024...

    ...cuz it ain't happening in 2020.

    There's a mp3 file but I think this is all written out below.

    Wushu Hopes to Go to Olympics by 2024
    2015-11-23 07:00:04 CRIENGLISH.com Web Editor: Mao



    Students of a kungfu school show kungfu during the welcoming ceremony of the 10th Zhengzhou International Shaolin Wushu Festival in Dengfeng, central China's Henan province, Oct 19, 2014. [Photo: Xinhua]

    Wushu, often called "Kung Fu", pits fighters against one another in hand-to-hand combat or intricate acrobatics focusing on flair and weapon work.

    Now, the sport is hoping to go a step further by following other martial arts, like Japan's judo and Korea's taekwondo, by becoming an Olympic sport.

    CRI's Niu Honglin reports.



    This year's World Wushu Championships in Jakarta features a record number of 600 athletes and attracted thousands of viewers.

    Many of those rising to the medal dais come from emerging Wushu nations. Russian Wushu athlete and former gold medalist Daria Tarassova believes that the sport should be in the Olympics.

    "I believe, and I'm sure that Wushu now is well known all over the world so it should be in the Olympics soon."

    The efforts of the International Wushu Federation suffered a setback when Wushu was dropped from a shortlist of sports being considered for the Tokyo 2020 Games.
    However, the organization has not been put off.

    Vice President of the International Wushu Federation Anthony Goh is confident of inclusion in next Olympic Games.

    "I think Wushu is just visually spectacular and I think that people who have never seen it for the first time. They are totally impressed and say 'wow, I didn't think it looked so good'."

    Wushu has come a long way since a rising martial artist named Jet Li demonstrated the sport at the White House in 1974.

    It has transformed from a centuries-old, exclusively Chinese combat discipline into a professional sport with a world federation and global participation.

    U.S. national team coach and long-time Wushu fighter Mario Martinez says the sport is quite popular in the country.

    "Our hope is really for Wushu to ultimately develop into an Olympic sport. We believe that it's already there."

    Martinez adds that many US athletes on his squad worked full time to fund their travel for Wushu tournaments abroad.

    He is still confident Wushu will be accepted by the Olympics.

    "It's developed in a format that's perfect for competition, it has fighting, it has weapons, it has all of the fast moving action of all martial arts condensed into one."

    For CRI, I'm Niu Honglin.
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    2024 Paris, 2028 Los Angeles

    Adding the locations to the titles now.

    It’s official: LA gets 2028 Olympics, Paris gets 2024
    By Nick ZaccardiSep 13, 2017, 1:48 PM EDT

    By a show of hands, the IOC confirmed that Paris will host the 2024 Olympics, and Los Angeles will get the 2028 Olympics.

    As expected, IOC members approved an agreement made among the two cities and IOC leaders earlier this summer to make the historic double award.

    Before that, today’s meeting in Lima, Peru, was scheduled to be a vote between Paris and LA for the 2024 Games only. Recognizing the two strong bids, IOC leaders pushed this spring and summer to award Olympics and Paralympics to both cities this year.

    LA and Paris gave 25-minute presentations Wednesday with speeches and videos to IOC members before the show of hands.

    The LA 2028 speakers included Olympic champions Allyson Felix, Janet Evans and Angela Ruggiero. Michael Johnson, who turned 50 on Wednesday, was also in attendance.

    USOC chairman Larry Probst spoke of perseverance.

    The U.S. lost in bidding for 2012 (New York City) and 2016 (Chicago). Its original 2024 bid city, Boston, dropped out two years ago after lack of local support.

    For LA, it started with a January 2013 letter from former mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to the USOC expressing interest in bidding for the 2024 Olympics. It was signed by Magic Johnson and Tom Hanks.

    LA lost to Boston in the initial competition to be the U.S. host city before taking over quickly after Boston bowed out. It navigated a crowded original 2024 international bid race that saw Rome, Hamburg and Budapest all drop out.

    “It has been a formidable journey to get here, but we never gave up hope,” Probst said in his speech Wednesday.

    Paris’ presentation included a video titled, “24 words for Paris 2024” that featured Olympic judo champion Teddy Riner and Neymar, the Brazilian soccer gold medalist who last month transferred from FC Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain.

    MORE: Paris Olympic bid plan includes Eiffel Tower area

    Additionally, French president Emmanuel Macron spoke in a pre-recorded video.

    “I wanted to re-emphasize here the full commitment of a whole country behind these Games,” Macron said. “In our world today, defending the values of Olympism also means working for greater balance, more multilateralism and towards a more inclusive, more sustainable society.”

    The last time two Olympic hosts were determined at once was in 1921, when the 1924 Paris and 1928 Amsterdam Games were awarded, according to Olympstats.com. LA and Paris will join London as the only cities to host the Olympics three times.

    The U.S. will host its first Olympics since 2002 (and first Summer Games since 1996). Paris will host for the first time since 1924.

    The U.S. ends its longest drought between hosting an Olympics since the 28-year gap between 1932 and 1960. It failed in bids for 2012 (New York City) and 2016 (Chicago).

    Paris was a finalist for 1992, 2008 and 2012.
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    Karate rejected for Paris 2024 Olympics

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    ‘It’s not just doing the worm’: breakdancing could become Olympic sport in 2024
    • IOC to make decision for Paris 2024 by December 2020
    • Karate, squash, billiard sports and chess rejected
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    Thu 21 Feb 2019 07.36 EST Last modified on Thu 21 Feb 2019 11.31 EST


    The head of the Paris 2024 organising committee said breakdancing would make the Olympics ‘more urban’ and ‘more artistic’. Photograph: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images

    Breakdancing pioneer Richard “Crazy Legs” Colon, who as leader of the US hip-hop group Rock Steady Crew is widely credited with turning the craze into a global phenomenon, has hailed its prospective inclusion in the Olympic Games.

    Breakdancing has been confirmed as one of four sports, along with surfing, climbing and skateboarding, which will be put forward to the International Olympic Committee for inclusion in the Paris 2024 Games.

    It follows the successful introduction of breakdancing at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires last year, for which Colon, a 53-year-old from The Bronx in New York, was invited to be a part of the judging panel.

    Colon said: “This is about two worlds coming together. They each have their own history and I think that we can carefully do this in a manner that is respectful to the essence of both. The dance represents many people who come from struggle and have nothing, and now that has translated into an opportunity to see the world, to compete and, most importantly, to build bridges between cultures and break down stereotypes.”

    Colon was a founding member of the Rock Steady Crew in 1977 and helped it develop from what was initially a New York sub-culture into a style which was recognised and copied around the world.

    The group’s major UK hit, ‘(Hey You) The Rocksteady Crew’ reached number six in the charts in October 1983.

    “I was brought in as one of the judges in Argentina and as you are watching the kids getting their medals, you kind of start to feel a little bit emotional,” added Colon.

    Paco Boxy, director of the British Breaking League which organises competitions across the UK,added: “I think it’s fantastic news, not only for the young generation but also for the credibility of breakdancing to be classed as a sport.

    “A lot of people will look at breakdancing as just spinning on your head or doing the worm, but the people that I know train like athletes. They go to the gym swimming, train every day. It will always be a dance first and foremost, but it has turned into a sport.

    The selection of the four sports by the Paris organising committee brings bad news for squash and karate, the latter of which will make its Olympic debut in Tokyo next year.

    A statement from World Karate Federation president Antonio Espinos read: “Our sport has grown exponentially over the last years and we still haven’t had the chance to prove our value as an Olympic sport since we will be making our debut as an Olympic discipline in Tokyo 2020.

    “Over the last months we have worked relentlessly, together with the French Federation, to achieve our goal of being included in Paris 2024. We believed that we had met all the requirements and that we had the perfect conditions to be added to the sports programme. However, we have learned today that our dream will not be coming true.”

    In a joint statement, the World Squash Federation and PSA World Tour said: “The proposed list of four sports only, of which three sports are already confirmed by the IOC on the Tokyo 2020 Olympic programme, leads to a belief that Paris 2024 and the IOC favoured sports already in the Olympic programme, leaving practically no opportunity for other sports.

    “The unity that our sport enjoys globally is exceptional and is getting stronger by the day. WSF and PSA are supported by the entire squash community and, with our athletes at the forefront, have run a strong campaign that respected the timeline and the criteria set by Paris 2024 and the IOC.”
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    Lightsaber duelling is an officially recognized competitive sport

    In France, the Force is strong with lightsaber dueling
    By JOHN LEICESTER
    February 18, 2019


    In this Sunday, Feb. 10, 2019, photo, competitors battle during a national lightsaber tournament in Beaumont-sur-Oise, north of Paris. In France, it is easier than ever now to act out "Star Wars" fantasies. The fencing federation has officially recognized lightsaber dueling as a competitive sport. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

    BEAUMONT-SUR-OISE, France (AP) — Master Yoda, dust off his French, he must.

    It’s now easier than ever in France to act out “Star Wars” fantasies, because its fencing federation has borrowed from a galaxy far, far away and officially recognized lightsaber dueling as a competitive sport, granting the iconic weapon from George Lucas’ saga the same status as the foil, epee and sabre, the traditional blades used at the Olympics.

    Of course, the LED-lit, rigid polycarbonate lightsaber replicas can’t slice a Sith lord in half. But they look and, with the more expensive sabers equipped with a chip in their hilt that emits a throaty electric rumble, even sound remarkably like the silver screen blades that Yoda and other characters wield in the blockbuster movies .

    Plenty realistic, at least, for duelists to work up an impressive sweat slashing, feinting and stabbing in organized, 3-minute bouts. The physicality of lightsaber combat is part of why the French Fencing Federation threw its support behind the sport and is now equipping fencing clubs with lightsabers and training would-be lightsaber instructors. Like virtuous Jedi knights, the French federation sees itself as combatting a Dark Side: The sedentary habits of 21st-century life that are sickening ever-growing numbers of adults and kids .



    “With young people today, it’s a real public health issue. They don’t do any sport and only exercise with their thumbs,” says Serge Aubailly, the federation secretary general. “It’s becoming difficult to (persuade them to) do a sport that has no connection with getting out of the sofa and playing with one’s thumbs. That is why we are trying to create a bond between our discipline and modern technologies, so participating in a sport feels natural.”

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    In the past, the likes of Zorro, Robin Hood and The Three Musketeers helped lure new practitioners to fencing. Now, joining and even supplanting them are Luke Skywalker , Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader.

    “Cape and sword movies have always had a big impact on our federation and its growth,” Aubailly says. ”Lightsaber films have the same impact . Young people want to give it a try.”

    And the young at heart.

    Police officer Philippe Bondi, 49, practiced fencing for 20 years before switching to lightsaber. When a club started offering classes in Metz, the town in eastern France where he is stationed for the gendarmerie, Bondi says he was immediately drawn by the prospect of living out the love he’s had for the “Star Wars” universe since he saw the first film at age 7, on its release in 1977 .

    He fights in the same wire-mesh face mask he used for fencing. He spent about 350 euros ($400) on his protective body armor (sturdy gloves, chest, shoulder and shin pads) and on his federation-approved lightsaber, opting for luminous green “because it’s the Jedi colors, and Yoda is my master.”

    “I had to be on the good side, given that my job is upholding the law,” he said.

    Bondi awoke well before dawn to make the four-hour drive from Metz to a national lightsaber tournament outside Paris this month that drew 34 competitors. It showcased how far the sport has come in a couple of years but also that it’s still light years from becoming mainstream.
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    The crowd was small and a technical glitch prevented the duelers’ photos, combat names and scores from being displayed on a big screen, making bouts tough to follow. But the illuminated swooshes of colored blades looked spectacular in the darkened hall. Fan cosplay as “Star Wars” characters added levity, authenticity and a tickle of bizarre to the proceedings, especially the incongruous sight of Darth Vader buying a ham sandwich and a bag of potato chips at the cafeteria during a break.

    In building their sport from the ground up, French organizers produced competition rules intended to make lightsaber dueling both competitive and easy on the eyes.

    “We wanted it to be safe, we wanted it to be umpired and, most of all, we wanted it to produce something visual that looks like the movies, because that is what people expect,” said Michel Ortiz, the tournament organizer.


    This isn't the car you're looking for: 'Star Wars' fans in cosplay had a ball at the tournament.

    Combatants fight inside a circle marked in tape on the floor. Strikes to the head or body are worth 5 points; to the arms or legs, 3 points; on hands, 1 point. The first to 15 points wins or, if they don’t get there quickly, the high scorer after 3 minutes. If both fighters reach 10 points, the bout enters “sudden death,” where the first to land a head- or body-blow wins, a rule to encourage enterprising fighters.

    Blows only count if the fighters first point the tip of their saber behind them. That rule prevents the viper-like, tip-first quick forward strikes seen in fencing. Instead, the rule encourages swishier blows that are easier for audiences to see and enjoy, and which are more evocative of the duels in “Star Wars.” Of those, the battle between Obi-Wan and Darth Maul in “The Phantom Menace” that ends badly for the Sith despite his double-bladed lightsaber is particularly appreciated by aficionados for its swordplay.

    Still nascent, counting its paid-up practitioners in France in the hundreds, not thousands, lightsaber dueling has no hope of a place in the Paris Olympics in 2024.

    But to hear the thwack of blades and see them cut shapes through the air is to want to give the sport a try.

    Or, as Yoda would say: “Try not. Do! Or do not. There is no try.”
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    Breakdancing provisionally approved

    Breakdancing provisionally approved as an Olympic sport in 2024 ... no, seriously
    Chris Cwik Yahoo Sports Jun 25, 2019, 12:16 PM


    Breakdancing is coming to the Olympics. (AP)

    Dust off your old breakdancing mats now because your country might need you. Breakdancing has been provisionally approved for the 2024 Olympics, according to Ben Fischer of the Sports Business Journal.

    There were rumblings this was going to happen. In March, the International Olympics Committee recommended breakdancing — along with a couple other sports — for consideration at the 2024 games.

    Fischer cleared up why other sports — such as lacrosse or cricket — weren’t in the conversation for the Olympics. The committee believes breakdancing will bring in a younger audience.

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    News: IOC provisionally approves breakdancing as a new medal event at 2024 Paris Olympics, a first in the Games. Three other sports also approved: skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing. Those are also new, but will debut next year in Tokyo.

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    Some context on what's driving Olympics' thinking on new sports: New additions need to be 1.) youth-oriented 2.) small footprint (they don't want the total no. of athletes to grow much, so team sports are v. hard) and 3.) have broad appeal, interest across many countries

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    Before you write off breakdancing as a sport, consider some of the other events in the Olympics. Many require skill, athleticism and hours of practice to reach perfection.

    If breakdancing can do that and provide viewers with entertaining and moving performances, is it really any different than some of the events millions of people tune in to the Olympics to watch now?

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    I would watch Olympic Breakdancing competition.

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    Note the date of this story...

    ...it's been picked up by some MMA news sites. Well played JiuJitsu Times.

    Jiu-Jitsu Officially Announced As An Event For The 2024 Olympics
    By Emil Fischer -April 1, 2021



    History was made today as the International Olympic Committee announced the inclusion of jiu-jitsu in the 2024 Olympics.

    For years there has been much debate on which ruleset the Olympics would use should they ever include the gentle art and who would be the director of the event to ensure the sport’s smooth transition to an Olympic sport.

    Carlos Gracie Jr., the grandson of Gracie Jiu-Jitsu founder Carlos Gracie; head honcho of the IBJJF and Gracie Barra will be overseeing the sport’s inclusion.

    “We went to great lengths to ensure that our sport would be treated with the respect it deserves. We will be using the current IBJJF no-gi rules with some minor modifications. For starters, open hand slaps will be allowed to simulate reality, as well as low kicks from the standing position. It’ll look a lot like the style of jiu-jitsu that my grandfather promoted all of his life.”

    The sport will look similar Combat Jiu-Jitsu with the exception of the low kicks.

    There was some concern with the nationalism of BJJ, namely that many Brazilians take issue with the term “American Jiu-Jitsu” seeing as the style was brought to America by Brazilians. To address this, Carlos Gracie Jr. had some stipulations.

    “Because we wanted to separate our sport in the Olympics from Judo, we are specifying it as Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu or Gracie Jiu-Jitsu. As part of the opening ceremony for the Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu event will include a collective bow to a portrait of Helio Gracie and Carlos Gracie Sr. We will also not be allowing teams that identify their style as American Jiu-Jitsu to participate because they are a threat to the shield of jiu-jitsu.”

    Jiu-Jitsu Times is excited to see the growth of our sport and its expansion to the Olympics!
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    Teddy Riner

    Olympics-Judo-Riner shines even as Japan judokas win record gold

    By Tetsushi Kajimoto
    Posted on August 7, 2021



    TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese judokas achieved a record gold medal rush for the host country at the Tokyo Games, but it was France’s Teddy Riner who stole the show at the home of judo in the end.

    Of the 14 weight categories for the men and women, Japan won nine golds, a silver and a bronze in the individual contests in Tokyo – a record haul since judo became an Olympic event for men in 1964 and for women in 1992.

    However, the feeling of exaltation among Japanese judokas quickly faded after they suffered a shock loss https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sp...ent-2021-07-31 against Riner-led France 1-4 in the mixed team event on the final day of the judo contest.

    “This is the reality in the world. The world of judo is evolving fast,” Kosei Inoue, the head coach of the Japanese judo national team, told reporters.

    “I’m really frustrated as we ended up in the second place and couldn’t live up to expectations, although I’m the happiest man on earth to have worked with such wonderful athletes.”

    Japanese judokas have a big job to do if they want to outperform their Tokyo Games results at the Paris 2024, he added.

    Confronting Japan will likely be French judokas led by Riner, who plans to return to the mat for his fourth Games in his home country.

    The 32-year-old French heavyweight legend had to settle for the bronze medal https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sp...old-2021-07-30 after failing to win a third consecutive Olympic gold in the men’s +100kg individual contest against Tamerlan Bashaev of the Russian Olympic Committee.

    A win at Tokyo’s Budokan, the arena built to host judo’s debut at the 1964 Games, would have matched the record held by Japanese great judoka Tadahiro Nomura.

    Still, the French win in the team event helped bring Riner a tally of three golds and two bronze medals from his Olympics appearances. Riner said he was happy to win both bronze for the individual and gold for the team event.

    “It’s my third Olympic gold medal, my fifth medal at an Olympics. I think this is very, very… important to win here in the country of judo during the Olympic Games in Tokyo at the Budokan. It’s just amazing,” Riner told reporters.

    “This is a dream, we win the final (against the) Japanese team. Wow.”

    (Reporting by Tetsushi Kajimoto; Editing by Lincoln Feast)
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    Olympic Phryge and Paralympic Phryge

    The Paris 2024 Olympic mascots are ... hats. Here's why
    November 15, 2022 12:09 PM ET
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    The Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics unveiled their mascots, two cartoonish Phrygian caps.
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    It's a symbol of revolution and freedom, of striving. And it's a hat. It's an icon seen over centuries, from the Notre Dame Cathedral to the Eiffel Tower. And yes, it's still a hat.

    More specifically, it's a Phrygian cap, the red bonnet famously worn by Marianne, the artistic personification of the free French republic. The Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympics unveiled the hat as their official mascots this week, showing off cartoonish images that are meeting with wide-ranging reactions.

    "It's the French spirit that came to us, this French spirit that makes us a slightly out-of-the-ordinary nation," explained Paris 2024 Brand Director Julie Matikhine, in a video celebrating the mascots' unveiling.

    As happens when a national spirit combines with the Olympic spirit, the mascots are also being packaged into nearly 10,000 types of products, from plush toys to hoodies, electronics and luggage.

    These mascots are not like the others

    The mascots are named the Phryges — Olympic Phryge and Paralympic Phryge. And before we get into the responses to them, we should note that the Paris 2024 mascots do something important, even revolutionary: Apart from the Paralympic Phryge having a racing blade where its counterpart has a leg, they are nearly identical.

    That's a wide departure from previous Games, where the Olympic and Paralympic mascots have often had different colors and designs, or were represented by different species altogether. At Rio 2016, for instance, one mascot was a cat-like chimera, while the other was a very cute tree.

    For Paris 2024, it's a way to emphasize that despite differing appearances and events, athletes in the Olympics and Paralympics are just that: athletes.

    "They've been brought together and it's the same world, the same family," said Joachim Roncin, who led the mascot design effort.

    Among the reactions: are these lady parts?

    It's not uncommon for Olympic mascots to provoke head-scratching and bemusement. Some of the most successful examples have been safe crowd-pleasers — see Beijing's recent deployment of the panda, its hard-working ambassador.

    But when the French conceptualize something, "safe" and "crowd-pleasing" often don't carry the same weight they might elsewhere.

    As they sought to express the French spirit, Matikhine said, the Phrygian cap was the "best way that we found to illustrate this, the most distinctive way anyway."

    Responses to the Paris 2024 video tweet revealing the Phryges ranged from "Olympic Crynge" to questions about whether the coq, the well-known French rooster, was for some reason unavailable.

    Then there are the comparisons. One commenter said the red caps look like Smurf hats gone amok. And several others said the elongated triangular shape is like a cartoon of female body parts brought to life.

    The Phryges have backstories

    Simple though they might appear, these mascots are not under-conceptualized, although Paris organizers seem undecided about their gender, sometimes referring to them as "it" and other times as "she."


    The figure of the French Republic depicted as a dark-haired woman in a red cap, circa 1795. The Phrygian-style cap, or bonnet rouge, was worn by the partisans during the French Revolution and was adopted as a Republican symbol.
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    Describing the Olympic Phryge, Matikhine said:

    "It's a fine tactician, it's a mascot who is extremely focused, who thinks everything through before it acts. It analyses the terrain, the situation. It never launches into anything without calculating the risks. It is also very French, with a great charm, and with a sensitivity that it tries in vain to hide."

    Of the Paralympic Phryge, she said:

    "In a way it's the twin of the Olympic Phryge. It is a real party animal, extremely extroverted, it is a people person, it brings the party and its charisma with it wherever it goes, rallying everyone around it, spontaneously and naturally."

    Origin stories and appearances aside, organizers hope the mascots connect with fans and children and inspire the French public to embrace sports even more than they currently do. And, they add, the mascots' dolls and other items are already on sale, more than 600 days before the Paris Summer Games begin.
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    Breaking as an official sport of the 2024 Paris Olympics

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    Breaking is a style of dance that originated in the United States in the 1970s. It took form in the lively block parties in the Bronx, emerging from hip hop culture, and is characterised by acrobatic movements, stylised footwork and the key role played by the DJ and the MC (master of ceremonies) during battles.

    International competitions were first held all over the world in the 1990s, popularising the dance form both among hip hop communities and the general public along the way.


    Bref overview of the rules
    At the Paris 2024 Games, the breaking competition will comprise two events – one for men and one for women – where 16 B-Boys and 16 B-Girls will go face to face in spectacular solo battles. Athletes will use a combination of power moves – including windmills, the 6-step and freezes – as they adapt their moves and improvise to the beat of the DJ’s tracks in a bid to secure the judges’ votes and take home the first Olympic breaking title.

    Olympic history
    Breaking made its Olympic debut at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires in 2018. Following its outstanding success, breaking has been chosen to feature on the Paris 2024 Olympic sports programme as a new sport, along with surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing.

    Events in 2024
    The breaking events will take place on the 9th and 10th of August.
    B-Girls (women’s)
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    International federation : World Dance Sport Federation
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    Michelle is still fire

    Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh elected to be an International Olympic Committee member

    Oscar-winning actress and UNDP Goodwill Ambassador Michelle Yeoh addresses a media conference on road safety at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

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    MUMBAI, India (AP) — Oscar-winning actor Michelle Yeoh was elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday despite some “no” votes from her new colleagues.

    Eight new IOC members were voted in to make a total of 107 drawn from royal families, sports officials, current and former athletes, and leaders from politics and industry.

    After being summoned to the lectern by Princess Nora of Liechtenstein, the longest serving IOC member at 39 years, Yeoh read the 104-word oath while holding a corner of the Olympic flag — white with five colored rings.

    “I promise to fight against all forms of discrimination and dedicate myself in all circumstances to promote the interests of the International Olympic Committee and Olympic Movement,” Yeoh said to complete the oath.

    Like the other new recruits, Yeoh was presented with a golden medallion by IOC president Thomas Bach.

    Member duties at annual IOC meetings include approving recommended candidates as future Olympic hosts. In Paris next year, they could also be asked to change Olympic rules to allow Bach to seek a third term as president in 2025 beyond the current 12-year limit.

    Yeoh, who has ties to the United Nations representing her home country Malaysia, was elected in a 67-9 vote by secret ballot. Her membership comes in the same year as her Oscar win for best actress in “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”

    She also is an international campaigner for road safety in partnership with her husband, Jean Todt, the former head of the Ferrari team in Formula One racing. He also previously served as president of FIA, the governing body of motorsports.

    The only unanimous vote Tuesday was the 76-0 result for Cecilia Tait, a three-time Olympian in volleyball and a former congresswoman from Peru. Tait helped Peru win a silver medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

    The first Israeli to win an Olympic medal, Yael Arad, also was elected Tuesday, 71-5. Now president of the Israeli Olympic committee, she won silver in judo at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

    Other new members include Hungarian government sports executive Balázs Fürjes, German sports official Michael Mronz and Tunisian lawyer Mehrez Boussayene.

    Two recently elected presidents of governing bodies in Olympic sports also got membership: Petra Sörling of Sweden from table tennis and Kim Jae-youl of South Korea from the International Skating Union.

    IOC members are nominally volunteers but can receive $7,000 each year for administrative costs. They are entitled to receive $450 each day they are at meetings, plus on travel days.
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    Snoop Dogg!

    SNOOP DOGG TO JOIN NBCUNIVERSAL’S PRIMETIME COVERAGE OF OLYMPIC GAMES PARIS 2024

    Global Megastar will Provide Regular Reports from Paris for Olympic Primetime Show on NBC and Peacock



    STAMFORD, Conn. – Dec. 31, 2023 – Snoop Dogg is joining NBCUniversal’s coverage of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 this summer. The global megastar will be on site in Paris to provide regular reports for the Olympic Primetime Show beginning July 26, 2024, on NBC and Peacock. The announcement was made tonight during halftime of Sunday Night Football’s coverage of the Green Bay Packers at Minnesota Vikings on NBC and Peacock.

    Throughout the Games, Snoop will speak with NBC Olympics host Mike Tirico and provide the large primetime U.S. audience with his unique take on what’s happening in Paris. He’ll explore the city’s iconic landmarks, attend Olympic competitions and events, and visit with the athletes, their friends, and families.

    “I grew up watching the Olympics and am thrilled to see the incredible athletes bring their A-game to Paris. It’s a celebration of skill, dedication, and the pursuit of greatness,” said Snoop Dogg. “We’re going to have some amazing competitions and, of course, I will be bringing that Snoop style to the mix. It’s going to be the most epic Olympics ever, so stay tuned, and keep it locked. Let’s elevate, celebrate, and make these games unforgettable, smoke the competition, and may the best shine like gold. Peace and Olympic LOVE, ya dig?” 🏅👊🏾

    “Snoop is already an Olympic gold medal commentator, generating tens of millions of views for his highlights commentary on Peacock of the dressage competition during the Tokyo Olympics,” said Molly Solomon, Executive Producer and President, NBC Olympics Production. “That performance alone has earned Snoop a job as our Special Correspondent in Paris. We don’t know what the heck is going to happen every day, but we know he will add his unique perspective to our re-imagined Olympic primetime show.”

    Earlier tonight during halftime of Sunday Night Football, Snoop starred in a “Snoop Year’s Eve” promotional video for the Paris Olympics. In a 75-second version of the spot, Snoop jokes with Team USA athletes Suni Lee (gymnastics), A’ja Wilson (basketball), Jagger Eaton (skateboarder), and duo Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes (beach volleyball) about their past triumphs and future Olympic dreams. He ends the video by telling Cheng and Hughes that he’ll see them in Paris. The content was shot in November at Universal Studios in Los Angeles as part of NBCUniversal’s state-of-the-art promotional shoot for the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

    In Paris this summer, the world’s greatest athletes will compete against the backdrop of one of the most beautiful cities in the world where the modern Olympic Games were conceived 130 years ago. This will be the third time Paris has hosted the Olympics (1900 and 1924), tying London for the most as a Summer Games host. Los Angeles (1932, 1984) will tie those two cities when it hosts the first Summer Games in the U.S. in 32 years in 2028.

    The organizers of Paris 2024 are reimagining the Games to make them more accessible to the public and to showcase their city to the world. In a first, competitions will be held amidst iconic Parisian landmarks – beach volleyball at the Eiffel Tower, equestrian at the Palace of Versailles, and urban sports at Place de la Concorde.

    In May, NBCU announced that the NBC broadcast network and streaming service Peacock will be the company’s primary platforms for its coverage of the Olympic Games Paris 2024, scheduled for July 26-Aug. 11, 2024. Click here for more programming information and here for information about the Paralympics, which will take place Aug. 28-Sept. 8.

    NBCU owns the U.S. media rights to the Olympic Games through 2032, which are scheduled for Paris (2024), Milan Cortina (2026), Los Angeles (2028) and Brisbane (2032). The host city for the 2030 Olympic Winter Games has not yet been chosen.

    ABOUT SNOOP DOGG

    An Entertainment Industry Mogul, Snoop Dogg has reigned for nearly three decades as an unparalleled force who has raised the bar as a globally recognized innovator. Snoop Dogg is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, record producer, DJ, media personality, businessman and icon. In addition to his extensive work in music, Snoop Dogg is a serial entrepreneur with endeavors in Web 3.0, tech, entertainment, lifestyle, global consumer brands, and food/beverage and cannabis industries.

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    NBCUniversal is one of the world’s leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, sports and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks, and a premium ad-supported streaming service. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.
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    Aya Nakamura

    Aya Nakamura, the pop superstar at the centre of a Paris Olympic racism storm
    Outrage from the far right over rumours of a performance at the opening ceremony has exposed deep divisions in France
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    She is the most listened-to French singer in the world, whose relentlessly catchy hits about love and betrayal have been streamed 7bn times and who made history last year when she sold out three Paris gigs in 15 minutes.

    But Aya Nakamura, France’s biggest pop superstar who is known for her unique French style influenced by Afrobeats and Caribbean zouk, called out racism and ignorance this week after far-right politicians expressed outrage over the possibility that she could sing at the Paris Olympics.

    The Paris prosecutor opened an investigation on Friday into alleged racist abuse against the singer during the Olympics row. A complaint had been filed by the France-based International League against Racism and Antisemitism.

    Emmanuel Macron is yet to confirm that he wanted Nakamura to headline the Olympic opening ceremony, singing hits by the 1950s cabaret legend Édith Piaf. But complaints by rightwing politicians and TV pundits that Nakamura was somehow not French enough have exposed deep faultlines of racism and class prejudice that threaten to cast a shadow over the Games.

    Rachida Dati, the culture minister, warned against “pure racism”, and Lilian Thuram the former French footballer said: “When people say Aya Nakamura can’t represent France, what criteria do they base it on? I know the criteria, because when I was a footballer, some also said this isn’t the French team because there are too many Blacks.”

    Nakamura, 28, grew up on a housing estate in the northern Paris banlieue suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis, exactly the communities that the Paris Olympics has promised to showcase and celebrate. Born Aya Danioko in Mali, she arrived in France as a baby. She lived in Aulnay-sous-Bois with her siblings and mother who was a griotte, a traditional Malian poet or singer. She took the stage name Nakamura from the superhero drama Heroes and was talent-spotted after posting songs online aged 19. Her unflinching lyrics on love and relationships, which she writes on her phone, quickly gathered a huge following.


    The Olympic village under construction in the Seine-Saint-Denis suburbs in Paris, where Nakamura grew up. Photograph: Ed Alcock/The Guardian

    French music critics argue that no other female singer in French history – not even Piaf in her postwar stardom – has had Nakamura’s global reach, with fans on every continent, across all classes, backgrounds, ages. Her best-known song, Djajda, has had close to a billion streams on YouTube alone. Her music is resolutely French, influenced by French-Caribbean zouk pop from Guadeloupe and Martinique, mixing in Afropop beats. But while some big French export bands, such as Daft Punk, preferred to sing in English, Nakamura has built a huge global fanbase singing in French.

    When politicians, including the rightwing senate leader, Gérard Larcher, this week attacked Nakamura for poor French because she used slang, other singers shot back that she was part of a long tradition of artists playing on the French language, from the poet Baudelaire to the musician Serge Gainsbourg. The singer Princess Erika said: “These people saying she doesn’t speak French, where do they live? Because Aya speaks not just a poetic French, but the French of young people.” Nakamura told a TV show last year: “There are so many people who speak like me, and there are young people who understand me.”

    Mekolo Biligui, a rap journalist, said: “This row says a lot about what racism is in France. It’s not the first polemic of its kind. When the rapper Youssoupha was chosen by the French football team to record their anthem for the Euro 2021, there was a polemic by the far right. When the rapper Black M was due to perform at the centenary of the battle of Verdun, there was a polemic fed by the right. It’s starting to be a long list. What these performers have in common is they are Black. In France, there is a problem with Black artists. For a long time, France knew how to hide its racism. Here the country can no longer hide it.”

    She said that on TV debates this week, Nakamura, a pop singer, was being wrongly labelled a rapper just because she was Black.

    “My measure of how popular an artist is in France is when they start being played at weddings,” Biligui said. “You hear Nakamura played absolutely everywhere, particularly at weddings because she is so popular, she is the soundtrack to all parts of people’s lives … There is a classist element to criticising her French just because she includes slang. The vivacity of the French language is that it has always contained a lot of slang, from different towns and regions, north and south, and particularly in the melting pot of Paris … This row is trying to reduce Nakamura to the fact she comes from a working-class neighbourhood and is of African heritage. But in fact she’s totally of her time and absolutely part of French culture: she is influenced by zouk, Afro-Caribbean pop music from Martinique and Guadeloupe, which is France. Her music is 100% French.”


    Aya Nakamura on the cover of Vogue. Photograph: Courtesy of Condé Nast

    Christelle Bakima Poundza, is an author and critic whose recent book, Corps Noirs, on Black women in French fashion, examined how Nakamura’s award-winning, bestselling cover of French Vogue in 2021 was a first for a French Black artist. She cautioned that the Vogue cover came relatively late in Nakamura’s career, and she had had far fewer magazine covers in France than other white singers, despite selling millions of records.

    Bakima Poundza, who last year hosted the first gathering of cultural criticism on Nakamura, welcomed a potential Olympics performance and felt the political class had been too slow to stand up for Nakamura against the far right: “She is the first artist who really represents everyone, listened to by all generations – the only artist who could allow France to present an open, diverse, generous and multicultural image. And yet France can’t even defend that image at home.”

    Bakima Poundza saw the row over Nakamura as the latest attack on visible Black women in France, from abuse of the former justice minister Christiane Taubira when she spearheaded the same-sex marriage law in 2013, to the politician Rachel Keke in 2022. She said it added to the sense of a “hostile climate” for French people of colour, after a year in which there was unrest over the police shooting of a 17-year-old boy, Nahel, of Algerian descent, and a hardline immigration bill. She said it sent a message to others: “Don’t exist or represent France, or this is what will happen to you: harassment.”

    It is still uncertain whether Nakamura will perform at the Olympics, but the Paris organising committee is trying to limit the damage from the row. “We are very shocked by the racist attacks against Aya Nakamura,” it said. “Total support to the most listened-to French artist in the world.”
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