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'Terre de Jeux' Relay 150 Days Before the Paris Games

par Roudi Abou Nader, 01/03 14:50 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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On Friday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Olympic Organizing Committee organized a "Relay Race" in the courtyard of the Palais des Pins in Beirut under the slogan "Land of Games," in collaboration with the Sports Academy. With 150 days to go before the opening of the Olympic Games in Paris next summer, the organizers decided to stage a ...

Paris-2024: The 'Sacred Fire' Will Spring Forth in Olympia on Tuesday

par Makram Haddad, 15/04 14:24 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The flame of the Paris Olympic Games, which open on July 26, will be lit on Tuesday in Greece in accordance with tradition in ancient Olympia, the site of the first Games in antiquity, before crossing the country and completing a long journey to reach France. At last! After two editions—the Tokyo and Beijing Olympics—marred by restrictions ...

Putin Rejects Macron's Call for Ukraine Ceasefire During Olympics

par This Is Beirut, 17/05 20:43 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested on Friday that Moscow would not comply with calls for a ceasefire in Ukraine during the Summer Olympics, pointing to what he said was the unfair treatment of Russian athletes. When asked during a visit to China whether he backed French President Emmanuel Macron's idea for a global "Olympic truce" during ...

From Refugee to Olympic Athlete: Jamal Valizadeh's Tale

par This Is Beirut, 08/06 12:15 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Jamal Valizadeh, a refugee wrestler, overcame hardship to reach the Paris Olympics with the Refugee Olympic Team, driven by a decade-long dream of winning a medal. Sixteen hours of barely paid daily work in Turkey, swimming part of the Mediterranean, and ten years after all that ordeal, the Paris Olympics: for refugee wrestler Jamal Valizadeh, a ...

River Seine Unfit for Swimming One Month From Paris Olympics

par This Is Beirut, 28/06 19:08 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Results showed on Friday that the river Seine is still failing water quality tests one month before the Paris Olympics, when it is scheduled to host the open-water swimming competition and the swimming leg of the triathlon. The latest tests, completed last week and released by the Paris mayor's office, showed that levels of the E.Coli bacteria ...

Basketball: The Lebanese National Team Departs to Participate in Olympic Playoffs

par This Is Beirut, 30/06 15:29 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Lebanese men's basketball team left on Sunday morning for Valencia, Spain, to participate in the Olympic playoffs to qualify for the basketball competition at the Summer Olympics, which will be hosted by the French capital Paris between July 26 and August 11. The following are the names of the delegation members: Maroun Jibrayil (head coach), ...

Tennis: Benjamin Hassan and Hady Habib Qualify for the Olympics

par This Is Beirut, 01/07 20:22 - Reading : less than a minute

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Lebanese tennis duo Benjamin Hassan and Hady Habib have been qualified to participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Tennis Event in the doubles section. It is the first time that Lebanon gets to be represented in this particular event of the Olympic Games. This great news comes after Benjamin Hassan’s nomination to compete in the singles section of ...

Olympic Games: The French Embassy Honors Lebanese Volunteers

par This Is Beirut, 03/07 17:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Institut Français in Beirut organized a ceremony in honor of the Lebanese volunteers participating in the organization of the Summer Olympics, which will be held in Paris from July 26 to August 11, and the Paralympics, which will take place from August 28 to September 8, in the garden of the French Consulate. Hervé Magro, the French ...

Basketball: Lebanon Loses to the Bahamas and Sees Its Olympic Dream Vanish

par This Is Beirut, 06/07 22:10 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Lebanese national basketball team faced the Bahamas in the Olympic Games qualifiers on Saturday. Unfortunately, Lebanon was defeated by a score of 89-72. It must be said that luck was not on Lebanon's side, as they were placed in a very tough group with Spain, Angola, and the Bahamas. Moreover, the Cedars' game was undoubtedly affected by the ...

France Celebrates National Day as Political Crisis Rumbles On

par This Is Beirut, 14/07 10:04 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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France does not know where its government is headed and on Sunday, the armed forces will also take an unusual detour at the start of their annual Bastille Day march. Preparations to host the Olympic Games blocked the national day parade from its traditional route on the Champs Elysées, and a smaller military contingent will instead march on the ...

Paris Olympics Preparations Move Up a Gear

par This Is Beirut, 21/07 15:53 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Preparations for the Paris Olympics went up a gear on Saturday as security teams scoured the banks of the Seine ahead of Friday's opening ceremony and top International Olympic Committee officials met in the French capital. Police with sniffer dogs were seen checking the six-kilometer (four-mile) route along the Seine for the ceremony in which up ...

Paris 2024: Olympic Committee Unveils Lebanese Delegation

par This Is Beirut, 22/07 19:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The Lebanese Olympic Committee announced the names of the delegation that will participate in the Summer Olympic Games (Paris 2024), which will be held from July 26 to August 11. The delegation comprises 27 members, as follows: François Saadé: President of the delegation, member of the Executive Committee and Treasurer Samar Younes: ...

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