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Restrictions on transgender athletes at Paris 2024

  • Olympics

Transgender athletes face increased restrictions ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympics compared to previous rules, as it was recently decided that they must have completed their transition before the age of 12 to avoid unfair advantages.

expressed the "overriding need to protect the female category," according to its president Sebastian Coe


Athletics tickets for Paris 2024 the most expensive ever

  • Paris 2024

Both the minimum price of 24 euros and the maximum price of 950 euros will be the highest ever recorded. They will surpass London 2012 and, of course, Tokyo 2020, whose projections were affected by the effects of the pandemic.

also for various aspects related to the organisation of an event such as the Olympic Games.Sebastian Coe

distort the perception of prices is inflation.In a public appearance before the media, including AFP, Coe


In defence of the Olympic Games in Paris

  • The Big Read

The head of the Paris 2024 Organising Committee has vigorously defended the organisation and suitability of the French capital to host the XXXIII Olympic Games of the modern era.

prices, considered by some to be the most expensive in history, as recently denounced by Sebastian Coe


Paris 2024 Organising Committee compares ticket prices with London 2012 and Tokyo 2020

  • Paris 2024

President Tony Estanguet responded on Wednesday to comments made by World Athletics President Sebastian Coe

If on Monday it was Sebastian Coe, President of World Athletics, who declared that "tickets for Paris

GETTY IMAGESMany groups have criticised the high price of tickets and the prominence of Sebastian Coe

This statement prompted Estanguet to respond to former athlete and Olympic medallist Coe.

The event with the most tickets available is athletics, the sport that Coe himself highlighted in his

GETTY IMAGESIt is clear that organising something of this magnitude is not easy, and Coe himself has


Russia still banned, but "things change", says Sebastian Coe

  • Paris 2024

Russian athletes remain banned from competing in athletics at next year's Paris Olympics, but Sebastian Coe

competing in 2022, after Russia began its conflict with Ukraine in February 2022.But athletics president Coe

And in a conference call with agencies including AFP, he said that position had not changed.Sebastian Coe

However, Coe added that "the world changes every five minutes, the situation could change"."


Sebastian Coe slams 'high' Paris 2024 ticket prices

  • Paris 2024

World Athletics president Sebastian Coe said Monday that the tickets for the Paris Olympics are 'expensive

Coe, who was chief organiser of the 2012 London Olympics, said in a conference call with news agencies

everything they can to fill those stadiums even though the ticket prices are, as we know, expensive," Coe

be the most expensive Games both for the international federations but also for the fans.”Sebastian Coe

sessions at the Olympics are priced at €980, though tickets for other sessions are available for €90.Coe

Ultimately we want the Games to be safe and secure and not delivered in a lockdown atmosphere," Coe said


Samaranch on the admission of Russian athletes to Paris 2024: "A painful but fair balance"

  • Paris 2024

International Olympic Committee (IOC) Vice President Juan Antonio Samaranch described opening the door to the Paris 2024 Games to Russian and Belarusian athletes under certain conditions as a "painful but fair balance" as the war in Ukraine continues.

many of them will qualify and how it will end," Samaranch told EFE at the Spanish Olympic committee's (COE


COE President Alejandro Blanco: "Success is the sum of small efforts"

  • Olympics

The Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) paid tribute to its most outstanding athletes at its Annual Gala.

That's why the COE wanted to give a boost to those who deserve it.

and the men's handball team for the Team Award.Maialen Chourraut and Rudy Fernández for the Special COE

Blanco, President of the Spanish Olympic Committee. © Getty ImagesAlejandro Blanco, President of the COE


Big six for World Athletics

  • Athletics

For the first time in history, it's not been two, but six athletes who have been awarded by World Athletics: Tigist Assefa, Mondo Duplantis, Kelvin Kiptum, Faith Kipyegon, Noah Lyles, and Yulimar Rojas were announced as World Athletes of the Year for 2023 during the ceremony in the Principality of Monaco.

accomplishments by these six athletes across a range of disciplines," said World Athletics President Sebastian Coe


Ukrainian swimmer laments 'great shame' of allowing Russians at Olympics

  • Paris 2024

Ukrainian swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk on Saturday slammed as a "big shame for the world of sport" the IOC's decision to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes to take part in next year's Paris Olympics under a neutral flag.

September that Russians would be reinstated from 2024, unlike World Athletics whose president Sebastian Coe

He (Coe) said that all Russians will not be allowed to compete until the war is finished," said Romanchuk


IOC allows Russian athletes to compete as neutrals at the Games in Paris

  • Paris 2024

Olympic chiefs on Friday gave Russian and Belarusian athletes the green light to compete as neutrals in next year's Paris Games, outside team events and provided they do not actively support the war in Ukraine.

World athletics president Sebastian Coe, however, insisted there would be no neutral athletes competing

in athletics at the Games.Sebastian Coe, World Athletics (WA) president, speaks during a press conference

may well see some neutral athletes from Russia and Belarus in Paris, it just won't be in athletics," Coe


EOA: Key Topics at the Vilnius Congress

  • News

The European Olympic Academies (EOA) approved the admission of four new OA to their circle and confirmed new procedures for the commissions. They also deliberated on the autonomy and intervention of the Olympic movement, the validity of arbitration agreements, and collaboration for sustainable development.

the "Olympic Movement between Autonomy and Intervention," presented by Marc Theisen, President of the COE

Agreements contained in the rules of Sports Governing Bodies," and Jean-Michel Brun, President of the COE



Dame Valerie Adams elected as World Athletics Athletes’ Commission chair

  • Athletics

New Zealand’s Dame Valerie Adams, a double Olympic and four-times world champion in the shot put, has been elected as World Athletics Athletes’ Commission chair following the first meeting of its membership this week.

with the three re-appointed members, the Executive Board includes World Athletics President Sebastian Coe