Friday briefing: How a doping scandal could overshadow the Olympics
In today’s newsletter: As Paris gears up for the Games, the excitement is palpable, but concern about performance-enhancing drugs threatens the reputation of one of...
Category : Olympic Games
French athlete may swap hijab for a cap to avoid Olympic opening ceremony ban
Sounkamba Sylla reportedly reaches compromise after France’s strict laws on secularism threatened to bar her A French sprinter is expected to swap her headscarf for...
Centrist government to remain in power until after Paris Olympics, says Macron
France’s president says delay is to avoid disorder, after leftist coalition announces Lucie Castet as its pick to become PM Emmanuel Macron has said he...
Snoop Dogg to carry Olympic torch on final stages through Paris
US rapper will conclude torch’s relay through Saint-Denis and Olympic Village to mark start of 33rd Games Snoop Dogg will carry the Olympic torch through...
‘It’s a very strange feeling’: can the man who won Olympic gold bring glory to the Paris Games?
2024 Games organiser Tony Estanguet tells how chats with British sporting legend Sebastian Coe have kept him on an even keel It has to feel...
Paris mayor says rise of far right will not dampen Olympics mood
Anne Hidalgo says Paris ‘stands up for freedom’ amid Marine Le Pen success in first round of voting The Paris mayor has sought to reassure...
Thousands of homeless people removed from Paris in pre-Olympics ‘social cleaning’
Campaigners say operation to bus ‘undesirable’ people out of city and wider Île-de-France region has intensified Thousands of homeless people have been removed from Paris...
Teenager arrested in France on suspicion of Olympics attack plot
Interior ministry says 18-year-old Chechen suspected of planning ‘Islamist-inspired’ attack in Saint-Étienne French security services have arrested a Chechen teenager suspected of plotting an “Islamist-inspired”...
Olympic Games’ €1.4bn clean-up aims to get Parisians swimming in the Seine
Organisers expect 75% of identified bacterial pollution will be gone by the time the starting gun fires for the open water events Beside a sign...
Aya Nakamura thanks fans for support over Olympics racism as she wins awards
French singer dedicates top prizes at Les Flammes ‘to all the blacks’ after backlash over rumoured Paris show The French pop star Aya Nakamura has...
