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Paris Olympic village receives 'anti-sex' beds

  • Paris 2024

The "anti-sex" beds arrived last Monday at the Olympic Village, which will host around 10,000 athletes from 26 July to 11 August in 82 buildings and 7,200 rooms. In preparation for Paris 2024, the organising committee will install 16,000 beds to improve rest during the event.

But Diego Chiriff, coach of the Uruguayan swimming team, tried one.


Florent Manaudou, the first Olympic torchbearer in France for Paris 2024

  • Olympics

The Olympic Flame is set to arrive on the shores of France tomorrow, 8 May, onboard the historic ship Belem. After its arrival in Marseille, four-time Olympic medallist Florent Manaudou will have the honour of being the first torchbearer in France for Paris 2024.

pic.twitter.com/pWRT4fLNO5— France in Fiji (@ambafrancefj) April 26, 2024For Manaudou, competitive swimming

He was trained by his older brother for most of his youth, swimming coach Nicolas Manaudou, and his sister

;Florent Manaudou poses with his medal next to his sister Laure Manaudou at the final of the French swimming


Paris Artistic Swimming World Cup: USA and Bill May win team acrobatic bronze

  • Paris 2024

the United States took bronze behind Mexico in the team acrobatic competition at the Paris Artistic Swimming

The second stop of the 2024 Artistic Swimming World Cup reached its conclusion on Sunday with the gala

with 243.9366 ahead of China.Bill May and the United States won team acrobatic bronze at the Artistic Swimming

The Greek-born pair won Austria's first global artistic swimming title at Fukuoka 2023 but had not competed

Aquatics Centre which was hailed a "huge success" by athletes and officials alike.French Federation of Swimming

The Olympic Aquatics Centre will stage artistic swimming, diving and water polo preliminary matches at


Around the republic in 80 days; the Olympic Flames’ journey

  • Olympics

After disembarking in Marseille from Olympia,Greece this Wednesday, 8 May, the Olympic flame will travel throughout France, including overseas territories, for 80 days until arriving in Paris for the opening ceremony of the Games on 26 July.

#swimming #FlorentManaudou #paris2024 #olympics #paryż #igrzyska #plywanie pic.twitter.com/0M3Ny9R9gh

— Retro Swimming (@RetroSwimming) April 28, 2024New maritime journeyAfter ascending from the south to


AOC: Aussies won’t be distracted by Chinese swimmers scandal

  • Olympics

In the Australian Olympic Committee’s annual meeting on Saturday, AOC president Ian Chesterman expressed full confidence in his swimmers’ focus in Paris 2024, while announcing three major initiatives aimed at supporting Indigenous athletes with an eye towards Brisbanne 2032.

athlete, federation and National Olympic Committee; and recent news regarding alleged doping from China’s swimming

The New York Times and German broadcaster ARD that surfaced two weeks ago, nearly half the Chinese Swimming

Fund is designed to generate between AU$500,000 and AU$1 million (€305,000-€610,000) a year.Besides swimming



Biathlon champion Vasilyev: "Bach would run naked through Paris" to save Olympics

  • Paris 2024

Double Olympic biathlon gold medallist Dmitry Vasilyev has accused International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach of resorting to desperate measures ahead of Paris 2024, claiming that the Games may not even take place.

president Emmanuel Macron, have discussed bathing in the River Seine to prove it is safe to hold open water swimming


Olympic swimming great Katie Ledecky receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

  • Swimming

Seven-time Olympic champion Katie Ledecky has another medal to add to her collection. The Washington D.C.-native received the highest civilian honour in the United States - the Presidential Medal of Freedom - from Joe Biden last Friday.

Olympic Team Trials - Swimming in Indianapolis from 15-23 June.


Tech enhances Olympic experience for visually and hearing-Impaired fans

  • Olympics

Audio description, vibrating vests, and tactile tablets: these are just some of the solutions that will help fans with visual or hearing disabilities follow sports events along with the rest of the public in various stadiums of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Agence France-Presse reports.

implementation.Audio description will be available in Paris 2024 in six sports (football, athletics, judo, swimming


New 'underground cathedral' opens ahead of Paris Olympics

  • Paris 2024

It may not have a spire, stained-glass windows or a nave, but the cavernous underground rainwater facility inaugurated in the French capital on Thursday ahead of the Paris Olympics has been compared to Notre Dame Cathedral.

underground next to a railway station, is a key part of efforts to clean up the River Seine, which will host swimming

sewage system is under intense scrutiny after Olympic organisers pledged to use the Seine for marathon swimming

at the #Paris Games and the swimming leg of the #Olympic and Paralympic triathlons ⤵️ pic.twitter.com

protested about the quality of the water in Tokyo Bay, and at the 2016 Rio Olympics, the prospect of swimming

with President Macron before the Games to demonstrate its safety, just over a century after public swimming


Bill May bids to become first man in Olympic artistic swimming

  • Artistic Swimming

Olympic Aquatics Centre, Bill May will continue his push to secure a landmark spot in the USA artistic swimming

Until this year, artistic swimming, the new name for synchronised swimming, was a female-only domain,

 Synchronised Swimming ace, May, is on the verge of becoming the first man ever to compete in the

GETTY IMAGESThough, with no place for men at the swimming world championships or the Olympics, the 45

I want to show the world that men should be accepted into the sport of artistic swimming.” he said.On

26 July 2015, he made history, becoming the first man ever to win artistic swimming gold at a major


Paris opens water basin to help clean River Seine

  • Paris 2024

French officials inaugurated a huge water basin in Paris on Thursday, in preparation for the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games to be held in the city over the summer.

rainwater and prevent bacteria-laden wastewater from entering the River Seine; the venue for marathon swimming

and the swimming leg of the Olympic and Paralympic triathlons, as well as the Games’ opening ceremony

 Last year, swimming test events had to be cancelled after heavy rains overwhelmed the city's old

With the new basin in place, 20 Olympic swimming pools of dirty water can be stored and treated rather

at the #Paris Games and the swimming leg of the #Olympic and Paralympic triathlons ⤵️ pic.twitter.com


Chinese swimming scandal: USADA accuses WADA of “half-truths”

  • Swimming

While the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) tries to defuse the constant blowback from the Chinese swimmers doping scandal, the American governing body is keeping the pressure on with a new 16-page document emphasizing its “deep concern” over the current state of affairs.


Paris 2024: IOC Refugee Olympic Team to represent over 100 million displaced

  • Paris 2024

36 athletes from 11 different countries, hosted by 15 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and competing in 12 sports, were named on Thursday 2 May as members of the IOC Refugee Olympic Team for Paris 2024.

Lohalith in athletics, Popole Misenga and Yolande Mabika in judo and Rami Anis and Yusra Mardini in swimming

Wael Shueb and Hamoon Derafshipour in karate, Luna Solomon in shooting, Alaa Maso and Yusra Mardini in swimming

-Alaa Maso (Syria, swimming).-Anjelina Nadai Lohalith (South Sudan, athletics).

-Eyad Masoud (Syria, swimming).-Farid Walizadeh (Afghanistan, boxing).