The Olympic flame touched down in France on Wednesday with some 150,000 people gathering in the southern city of Marseille’s historic port area to watch its transfer onto French soil after a 12-day journey from Greece in a hundred-year-old three-masted sailing ship.
The ceremony is being seen as a test run for the opening ceremony on July 26 of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games, in terms of crowd control and security.
Around 5,500 security staff were mobilized for the event, 2,400 of them police officers, with a security perimeter set around the spectator area and more than 500 plain-clothed police officers mingling with the crowds.
The flame’s arrival in France sparked a day of debate in the local media on whether the country and Paris in particular would be ready for the 2024 games running from July 26 to August 11, both physically and in spirit.
A question still hangs over ambitious plans to hold the...
The ceremony is being seen as a test run for the opening ceremony on July 26 of the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games, in terms of crowd control and security.
Around 5,500 security staff were mobilized for the event, 2,400 of them police officers, with a security perimeter set around the spectator area and more than 500 plain-clothed police officers mingling with the crowds.
The flame’s arrival in France sparked a day of debate in the local media on whether the country and Paris in particular would be ready for the 2024 games running from July 26 to August 11, both physically and in spirit.
A question still hangs over ambitious plans to hold the...
- 5/8/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
The 2023 Women’s World Cup kicked off as planned in Auckland on Thursday, with the co-hosting nation New Zealand triumphing in the opening match against Norway just hours after a lone shooter killed two people and injured six others in the city.
Veteran New Zealand striker Hannah Wilkinson secured her team victory against Norway, which won the tournament in 1995, with a goal three minutes into the second half.
The victory came just hours after the centre of Auckland was shutdown when a gunman, later named as 24-year-old Matu Tangi Matua Reid, entered a construction site and began shooting, killing two people and injuring six others.
He was found dead at the scene after a shootout with police. The motive for his shooting spree is unknown.
New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said the situation had been contained and there was no risk to national security.
The opening ceremony, celebrating the...
Veteran New Zealand striker Hannah Wilkinson secured her team victory against Norway, which won the tournament in 1995, with a goal three minutes into the second half.
The victory came just hours after the centre of Auckland was shutdown when a gunman, later named as 24-year-old Matu Tangi Matua Reid, entered a construction site and began shooting, killing two people and injuring six others.
He was found dead at the scene after a shootout with police. The motive for his shooting spree is unknown.
New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said the situation had been contained and there was no risk to national security.
The opening ceremony, celebrating the...
- 7/20/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Novak Djokovic's controversial message over the Kosovo-Serbia tensions has been deemed inappropriate by France's Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera.
Following his first-round victory over Aleksandar Kovacevic, Djokovic wrote his obligatory message to fans on the camera lens, which read, "Kosovo is the heart of Serbia, Stop the violence." Inevitably, the move has caused a decisive reaction, although the French Tennis Federation ruled out the possibility of handing a fine to the 35-year-old.
However, the latest figure to weigh in on the controversy was French Sports Minister Oudea-Castera. In an interview on French TV channel France 2, the political figurehead felt that the move was "not appropriate" for a sporting event, but she did back free expression by sports stars.
"When it comes to defending human rights and bringing people together around universal values, a sportsperson is free to do so,”
Oudea-Castera told France 2
Tensions between Serbia and its neighbour have remained...
Following his first-round victory over Aleksandar Kovacevic, Djokovic wrote his obligatory message to fans on the camera lens, which read, "Kosovo is the heart of Serbia, Stop the violence." Inevitably, the move has caused a decisive reaction, although the French Tennis Federation ruled out the possibility of handing a fine to the 35-year-old.
However, the latest figure to weigh in on the controversy was French Sports Minister Oudea-Castera. In an interview on French TV channel France 2, the political figurehead felt that the move was "not appropriate" for a sporting event, but she did back free expression by sports stars.
"When it comes to defending human rights and bringing people together around universal values, a sportsperson is free to do so,”
Oudea-Castera told France 2
Tensions between Serbia and its neighbour have remained...
- 5/31/2023
- Tennis Infinity
Paris, May 24 (Ians) How many people will be able to watch the first ever outdoor opening ceremony of an Olympic Games on site in the summer next year? The answer is still unclear, as France’s Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin talked about “hundreds of thousands of people” when asked that question.
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games will start at 8:24 pm (local time) on July 26, 2024, and will last three hours, confirmed Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet in a press conference, as the French government, the organising committee and the French capital’s mayor signed a security protocol on Tuesday, reports Xinhua.
Some 116 boats will be hired to transport over 10,000 athletes, sailing six kilometers from Pont d’Austerlitz to the Pont d’Iena, with several iconic monuments such as Notre Dame, the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower serving as a backdrop.
Around 100,000 tickets will be sold for...
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games will start at 8:24 pm (local time) on July 26, 2024, and will last three hours, confirmed Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet in a press conference, as the French government, the organising committee and the French capital’s mayor signed a security protocol on Tuesday, reports Xinhua.
Some 116 boats will be hired to transport over 10,000 athletes, sailing six kilometers from Pont d’Austerlitz to the Pont d’Iena, with several iconic monuments such as Notre Dame, the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower serving as a backdrop.
Around 100,000 tickets will be sold for...
- 5/24/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
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