Track star and entrepreneur Allyson Felix will launch the Olympic Village’s first nursery: ‘The systems aren't in place for mothers whatsoever’ “I don’t know why it has taken so long." Fortune · Jul 16, 2024
Here’s All The Paris 2024 Olympics News & Tea If You Can’t Be Bothered Staying Up Are you getting up in the middle of the night to watch the Paris 2024 Games? Same — here's all the Olympics news in case you slept in. Pedestrian.tv · May 24, 2024
Beetroot and beefless bourguignon as Paris Olympics embraces vegetarian cuisine Top chefs say the Games will rebrand French gastronomy as a showcase for plant-based food The Guardian - UK · Apr 26, 2024
Paris prepares for Olympic romance with 220,000 free condoms Organisers of the Paris Olympics are to distribute more than 200,000 condoms to athletes in the Olympic Village. Organisers said the move comes amid a rise in sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Radio France Internationale · Mar 20, 2024
Barcelona 1992: New participants, new Olympic dreams The 1992 Barcelona Olympics was marked by openness and unity after a long period of controversy and conflicts. The political changes in the world in the late 1980s and early 1990s allowed the Olympics to take place without a boycott for the first time since 1972. The Olympics also coincided… Radio France Internationale · Feb 20, 2024
Owner of Olympic Village flats to pay £18m to fix flammable-style cladding Get Living has been ordered to pay for fixes to serious fire safety defects discovered at five blocks inside the East Village Evening Standard · Jan 23, 2024
‘Era of gigantism is over’: why Paris chose banlieue for its Olympic Village Residents and mayors of once-neglected northern outskirts see lasting change as area is already focus of regeneration The Guardian - UK · Jan 2, 2024
Olympics 1972: Tragic hostage-taking casts deep shadow over Munich Olympics In 1972, at the height of the Cold War, the Federal Republic of Germany hosted the 20th Olympic Games in Munich. While the West German government wanted to use the "Games of Peace and Joy" to forget the memory of the Olympic Games organised by Adolf Hitler in Berlin in… Radio France Internationale · Oct 31, 2023
Baguettes but no wine: Olympians to eat gourmet in Paris Some 15,000 athletes will get to feast on fresh baguettes, gourmet dishes and environment-friendly French cuisine — but no wine — when Paris hosts the Summer Olympics next year The Independent UK · May 9, 2023
When the Games Changed Forever Fifty years later, the author recalls his bond with Mark Spitz, whose unprecedented Olympic performance was overshadowed by an act of terrorism. Sports Illustrated · Sep 5, 2022
ATHLETES ON: Best things they've eaten in the Olympic bubble Avocado ice cream and boiling hot pots are some of the best foods athletes say they’ve eaten at the Beijing Olympics The Independent UK · Feb 16, 2022
Laura Deas calls for focus on mental health at ‘zero Covid’ Winter Olympics Fellow skeleton racer Kim Meylemans garnered global sympathy after she tested positive and was denied a room in the Olympic Village upon arrival in Beijing The Independent UK · Feb 4, 2022
Winter Olympian granted exit from Beijing isolation facility after emotional plea The IOC stepped in to allow Belgian skeleton racer Kim Meylemans out of isolation and into the Olympic Village The Independent UK · Feb 3, 2022