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  • ‘Social Cleansing’ of Paris Alleged as Migrants Sent to Regional France Ahead of Olympics

    03/26/2024 6:07:27 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 16 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/26/2024 | Simon Kent
    Allegations of “social cleansing” have been made against organisers of the Paris Summer 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. Serge Grouard, the mayor of Orleans in central France, went public Monday with his complaints over the unannounced arrival of up to 500 homeless migrants in his town of 100,000 people, AFP reports. “It has been proved that every three weeks, a coach arrives in Orleans from Paris, with between 35-50 people on board,” he told reporters, adding it was to...
  • 2024 Paris Summer Olympics Cancel Air Conditioning Due to Climate Concerns

    03/20/2024 11:49:24 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 55 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/20/2024 | DYLAN GWINN
    The athletes competing at the Paris Summer Games will have plenty of condoms, but they will not have air conditioning. “We designed these buildings so that they would be comfortable places to live in in the summer, in 2024 and later on, and we don’t need air conditioning in these buildings because we oriented the facades so that they wouldn’t get too much sun during the summer, and the facades, the insulation is really efficient,” said Yann Krysinski, who is directing the service of infrastructure for the Games. The buildings housing the athletes will apparently have some sort of cooling...
  • 2024 Paris Summer Olympics Cancel Air Conditioning Due to Climate Concerns

    03/20/2024 6:29:31 PM PDT · by Reno89519 · 7 replies
    Breitbart ^ | March 20, 2024 | Dylan Gwinn
    The athletes competing at the Paris Summer Games will have plenty of condoms, but they will not have air conditioning. “We designed these buildings so that they would be comfortable places to live in in the summer, in 2024 and later on, and we don’t need air conditioning in these buildings because we oriented the facades so that they wouldn’t get too much sun during the summer, and the facades, the insulation is really efficient,” said Yann Krysinski, who is directing the service of infrastructure for the Games. ... The decision to forego traditional air conditioning is borne of the...
  • Macron Says Will Propose Ceasefire in Ukraine Conflict for Duration of Paris Olympics

    03/16/2024 9:07:53 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 20 replies
    Sputnik News ^ | 3/16/24
    MOSCOW (Sputnik) - France will propose a ceasefire in the Ukraine conflict for the duration of the Olympic Games in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron said, adding that Paris is ready to react if the conflict escalates, but will not initiate aggression. "We will ask for it," Macron said in an interview with Ukrainian TV channels when asked if he would offer Russia a ceasefire for the duration of the Olympics. The Paris Olympics will be held from July 26 to August 11. He also said he was ready to discuss proposals to de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine with Russian...
  • This Isn't Going to Go Well: No A/C for Olympic Athletes in Paris

    03/14/2024 5:25:50 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 50 replies
    Hotair ^ | 03/14/2024 | David Strom
    Olympic athletes are going to be on the hot seat this summer in Paris. Not just metaphorically; the Paris Olympic Committee wants this Olympics to be the greenest ever (take that, Classical Greeks!), and one of the measures they have taken is to build the Olympic village without any air conditioning. There will be no air conditioning in athletes' rooms at #Paris2024, which pledged to host the ‘greenest ever’ Olympic Games. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo spoke to @Reuters about the city's plans to keep athletes cool https://t.co/Js9skXtWoF pic.twitter.com/uVBMusztdi— Reuters (@Reuters) March 14, 2024I think this is one virtue signal that...
  • 'Lia' Thomas seeking to overturn ban on transgender swimmers at the Olympics: report

    01/29/2024 6:39:11 PM PST · by NetAddicted · 41 replies
    Lifesitenews.com ^ | 1/29/2024 | Calvin Frieburger
    The case is unlikely to be resolved in time for this summer's Olympic Games in Paris but could have massive ramifications in the years to come. (LifeSiteNews) – Gender-confused University of Pennsylvania swimmer William “Lia” Thomas is working with Canadian law firm Tyr behind the scenes to try to overturn the ban on males competing against females in the Olympics, according to a report in the UK’s Telegraph. Thomas, who “transitioned” to identifying as a female yet retains male genitalia and reportedly remained heterosexual (despite self-identifying as lesbian), has drawn headlines since 2022 for generating unease among his actual female...
  • Snoop Dogg To Help With NBCUniversal’s Coverage Of Summer Olympic Games In Paris

    01/01/2024 6:56:21 PM PST · by sphinx · 50 replies
    Deadline ^ | January 1, 2024 | Lynette Rice
    “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 in a statement. “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?”
  • A history of Olympic gender scandals

    11/27/2023 6:46:22 PM PST · by DallasBiff · 7 replies
    Flashback ^ | 5/29/12 | Anorak
    Russian ‘sisters’ Tamara and Irina Press romped home to five gold medals and smashed lots of records. When gender testing came in, they retired. Rivals called them the ‘Press Brothers’.
  • Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius to be freed from prison, 10 years after killing girlfriend

    11/24/2023 5:33:57 AM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 39 replies
    NY Post ^ | 24/11/23
    Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius was granted parole Friday, 10 years after shooting his girlfriend through a toilet door at his home in South Africa in a killing that jolted the world. Department of Corrections spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo said Pistorius would be released from prison on Jan. 5. Pistorius, who turned 37 this week, has been in jail since late 2014 for the Valentine’s Day 2013 killing of model Reeva Steenkamp, although he was released for a period of house arrest in 2015 while one of the numerous appeals in his case was heard....
  • Massacre begins at Munich Olympics

    11/23/2023 1:52:19 PM PST · by artichokegrower · 13 replies
    During the 1972 Summer Olympics at Munich, in the early morning of September 5, a group of Palestinian terrorists storms the Olympic Village apartment of the Israeli athletes, killing two and taking nine others hostage. The terrorists were part of a group known as Black September, in return for the release of the hostages, they demanded that Israel release over 230 Arab prisoners being held in Israeli jails and two German terrorists. In an ensuing shootout at the Munich airport, the nine Israeli hostages were killed along with five terrorists and one West German policeman.
  • Paris Clears Thousands from Migrant Camps in Olympics Clean Up Effort

    11/17/2023 9:37:54 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 12 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/17/2023 | Kurt Zindulka
    Hundreds of migrants living in camps along the Seine River in Paris were removed this week as the city embarks upon a cleanup effort in preparation for hosting next year’s Summer Olympics. Paris police cleared 221 migrants living on the streets near the Austerlitz train station on Tuesday morning, with around 100 being transferred to accommodations outside of the city.
  • Car bombs kill at least two in Russian Dagestan

    05/22/2013 5:53:19 PM PDT · by Freedom of Speech Wins · 4 replies
    NBC ^ | 5/20/13 | Steve Gutterman
    Car bombs kill at least two in Russia's Dagestan AFP - Getty Images Police investigators work at a blast site outside a building used by court officials in central Makhachkala, Russia, on Monday. At least eight people were killed and more than a dozen injured in twin car-bomb blasts. By Steve Gutterman, Reuters MAKHACHKALA, Russia - Two car bombs killed at least two people on Monday in Dagestan, a turbulent province in Russia's North Caucasus region where armed groups are waging an Islamist insurgency. The mother of the two brothers suspected of the Boston Marathon bombing has told ITV News...
  • WORLD 2028 Los Angeles Olympics adds 5 sports including lacrosse, cricket, flag footbal

    10/16/2023 12:46:46 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 65 replies
    CBS News ^ | OCTOBER 16, 2023 / 11:40 AM | CAITLIN O'KANE
    Five sports have been added to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles have after being approved by the International Olympic Committee's executive board. Three of the sports — baseball/softball, cricket and lacrosse — have been played at past Olympic games, while flag football and squash will make their Olympics debut in LA. The five sports are "in line with the American sports culture and will showcase iconic American sports to the world, while bringing international sports to the United States," IOC President Thomas Bach said in a statement. The global sports tournament hasn't been held in the U.S. since the...
  • Mary Lou Retton Was Brightest of Her Star-Filled Sport Era

    10/11/2023 8:25:50 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 52 replies
    New York Post ^ | Oct. 11, 2023 | Mike Vaccaro
    This was the last gasp of amateurism at the Olympics. Most of the nations who’d already made a sham of the ideal stayed away, the Soviet-bloc boycott of the 1984 Games of Los Angeles allowing the rest of the world to gather one last time under the Games’ original ideology, unburdened by the state-sponsored automatons of Moscow and East Berlin and Prague. By 1988, those countries would be back. By ’92, everyone else — starting with the U.S. jumping in gleefully with both feet — would welcome professionals, too. But in ’84, it was still possible for an athlete to...
  • The First Ever Cheesecake Was Served to Ancient Greek Olympic Athletes

    10/06/2023 3:41:55 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    Greek Reporter ^ | September 27, 2023 | Thomas Kissel
    Cheesecake is one of the most recognizable and popular desserts. You may assume its origins trace back to France or possibly Italy, as the fluffy cream cheesecake has become a staple of traditional bakeries. But cheesecake has a very different origin: ancient Greece. The original cheesecake is thought by researchers to have been created on the Greek island of Samos, where anthropologists unearthed cheese molds for the dessert that were dated back to 2,000 B.C. There is evidence people served athletes cheesecake during the first Olympic games in 776 B.C., as it was believed that the treat was a viable...
  • Swank Parisian avenue reduced to unbelievable migrant squalor, and river pollution calls 2024 Olympics into question

    08/24/2023 7:36:34 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 14 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 08/24/2023 | Olivia Murray
    Remember when London mayor Sadiq Khan, in response to the New York subway bombing in 2017, said that (Muslim) terror attacks were “part and parcel” of living in a big city? I mean, I guess he was technically right, but that’s because under leftism wickedness and lawlessness flourish. But! Islamist terrorism shouldn’t be, and never was “part and parcel” of cosmopolitan living … until politicians like Khan manufactured a suicidal clash of cultures. And, nowhere is that more apparent than in France, and specifically, Paris.French president Emmanuel Macron, and Paris’s mayor Anne Hidalgo, are far-left socialists, and behind a charitable...
  • World Cup Of Swimming Has Made Decision On Transgender Athletes

    08/17/2023 3:25:12 AM PDT · by where's_the_Outrage? · 45 replies
    The Spun ^ | Aug 16, 2023 | Matt Hladik
    World Aquatics has announced a major decision involving the participation of transgender athletes at this year's World Cup in Berlin in October. For the first time ever, "open category" races will be held to accommodate transgender swimmers, World Aquatics revealed on Wednesday. The open category will feature 50m and 100m events across all strokes, with the possibility of additional competitions. "This pioneering pilot project highlights the organization’s unwavering commitment to inclusivity, welcoming swimmers of all sex and gender identities," World Aquatics said in a statement.
  • For the first time in the Olympics, men will compete in artistic swimming, formerly called synchro

    07/17/2023 10:15:37 AM PDT · by mcenedo · 70 replies
    AP ^ | 7/17/23 | STEPHEN WADE
    FUKUOKA, Japan (AP) — Snicker if you wish. Guffaw for good measure. Bill May and other male synchronized swimmers — now called artistic swimmers — have heard the putdowns before.But they’re getting the last laugh.
  • Paris Olympics 2024: Russia, Belarus will not be formally invited, but athletes can compete under neutral flag

    07/15/2023 8:08:58 AM PDT · by Redmen4ever · 14 replies
    CBS Sports ^ | 7/15/22 | Isabel Gonzalez
    Over 200 countries will soon be receiving a formal invitation to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics, but Russia and Belarus will be excluded because of the ongoing war in Ukraine, the International Olympic Committee announced Thursday. However, athletes will be allowed to participate under a neutral flag.
  • USA Fencing's Olympic hopes in jeopardy after member's outburst leads to disqualification at Pan-Am Games

    06/25/2023 7:31:59 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 79 replies
    Fox news ^ | 06 21 2023 | Ryan Morik
    An American fencer's outburst after a match may have cost his entire team a chance to compete at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. After a semifinals loss at the Pan-American games in Peru, Curtis McDowald went on a tirade that disqualified the entire USA men's épée team. On the decisive point, McDowald was penalized with a red card, ending the match. After the loss, McDowald's opponent tried to shake his hand, but he angrily slapped it. As other members shook hands, McDowald, a 2020 Olympian, kicked and put his foot through a free-standing banner at the venue. Because of his...