PARIS: Britain is calling Olympics sponsors including Coca-Cola and Samsung support the ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes competing in next year’s summer games in Paris. It is hoped that London will be encouraged by the supporters International Olympic Committee (IOC), and a year and a half to go until the Paris 2024 games. “We...
PARIS: A French labor union said workers in the energy sector cut power to Olympic construction sites on Thursday for the 2024 Paris Gamesas well as the main stadium of the Stade de France. Gas and electricity were cut off at sites as well as at data centers, said Sebastien Menesplier, secretary general of the...
LAUSANNE: The president of the IOC, Thomas Bach, has told Ukraine that his calls to stop the 2024 Paris Games on the possibility of participation of Russian competitors against the Olympic “principle” because its organization was accused of “on the wrong side of history”. In a letter to the Ukrainian Olympic Committee released on Thursday,...