Francisco “Morochito” Rodriguez, the boxer who won Venezuela’s first Olympic gold medal, died Tuesday at age 78.
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The Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) is upbeat on the prospect of the Philippines taking home gold medals in the upcoming Paris Olympics.
Prize money at the Olympic Games is in the spotlight after a move by World Athletics to reward their track and field athletes from Paris 2024 onwards. The move from Sebastian Coe broke with 128 years of tradition by becoming the first sport to give athletes prize money if they are victorious in Paris this summer. Champions will come away with $50,000 (£39,360) if they reach the top of the podium. The decision blindsided the International Olympic Committee, which has never awarded money for...
Brigitte Macron's "fairytale journey" from schoolteacher to first lady is to be recounted in a French TV series, the producers said Tuesday.
A French police trade union threatened Tuesday to disrupt the Olympics torch relay ahead of the start of the Paris Games this July unless officers were given bonuses.The Alliance union said that the French prime minister's office and economy ministry were holding up special Olympics payments promised to police of as much as 1,900 euros ($2,032).Warning that a first demonstration had been called for Thursday, the union said that other actions could follow and "we do not rule out disturbing the...
When Joanie Delgaco was starting as a national team member, she was awed by the stars of the sport.
Dutch athletes can hope for a record number of medals at the summer Olympics in Paris this year, according to sports data bureau Nielsen’s Gracenote. With 100 days to go before the games start, Gracenote is putting the Netherlands in fourth place in its virtual medal’s table, with 38 medals across up to 13 sports, two more than in Tokyo three years ago. Last year, the Dutch Olympics committee and sports federation said it had softened its ambitions for the
To kick off the 100-day countdown to the Summer Games in Paris, athletes from Team USA were asked to guess which sport a mime was performing.