BOXING: The Frenchwoman also hopes to get her ticket to the Paris Olympics next year Nearly a year after her last outing as a professional, IBO lightweight champion Estelle Mossely retained her belt by beating Malawi’s Anisha Basheel on points on Friday in Paris. As soon as her fight was over, the 2016 Olympic champion announced her move […]
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Russia is penalized for falsifying the anti-doping data of its athletes. Russians have 21 days to appeal. he World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) decided on Monday to exclude Russia from the Olympics for four years, which includes Tokyo-2020 and Beijing-2022, to punish the falsification of control data handed over to the agency, said a spokesperson for WADA following the executive […]
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At a meeting at the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne on Friday 15th February, South Korea and North Korea discussed their joint plans for the Olympics. The two Koreas , who have begun a spectacular sports match at the Pyoengchang-2018 Olympic Games , want to go further with the envisaged participation of unified teams in four […]
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To attract Olympic delegations, the Cergy-Pontoise agglo will build a 2,000-metre athletic hall benefiting from the latest technology at the Maradas. On Tuesday, February 13th, the agglomeration of Cergy-Pontoise approved the construction of a sports hall for athletics at the Maradas stadium, in Pontoise (Val-d’Oise ), as well as its projected financial envelope of € 4,878,121 ( tTC). 2,000 […]
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Emmanuel Macron spoke by phone with President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), German Thomas Bach, to confirm his “commitment to the candidacy” of Paris-2024, announced on Friday by the Paris olympic bid committee in a statement. “The telephone conversation occurred two days before the arrival of the IOC Evaluation Commission in Paris and then […]
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ATHLETICS: The British high jumper Germaine Mason died Thursday in a motorcycle accident in Jamaica … Germaine Mason was 34 years old. He lost control of his vehicle while traveling in Kingston He died instantly. Jamaica and the United Kingdom are in mourning. Germaine Mason, Jamaica native naturalized British in 2006 and silver medalist at […]
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Estelle Mossely made Friday at the French women’s boxing’s first Olympic title in history and succeeds Brahim Asloum, the last French to win a gold medal in 2000 in Sydney. The day of his 24 years, Estelle Mossely, fighting in the -60 kg category, defeated after a very hooked final the Chinese Yin Junhua. […]
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The French women’s basketball team, having first blazed to the end, broke the distance in the semifinals against the Americans, big favourite of the Olympic tournament. They will play on Saturday for the bronze medal against Serbia for a rematch of the final of Euro 2015. Les Bleues entered the field Carioca 1 – (12,000 spectators […]
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Will Nantaise Estelle Nze Minko return from the Olympics with an Olympic gold medal in women’s handball? Answer on Saturday in the final against Norway or Russia. An amazing experience for one who lives her very first game. While the French harvest of medals continue at Rio Olympics Games continues, it is the turn of […]
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The French boxer Sarah Ourahmoune qualified for the 51 kg Olympic final by beating in the semifinals the Colombian Ingrid Valencia on Thursday in Rio. Ourahmoune, aged 34, will face in the final on Saturday (2pm local, 7:00 p.m. French time) the favourite of the tournament, Britain’s Nicola Adams, Olympic champion and world champion title. […]
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