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Concerns And Controversies At The 2024 Summer Olympics
Various concerns and controversies arose in relation to the 2024 Summer Olympics, including security concerns; human rights issues; and controversy over allowing Israel to participate amidst the Israel–Hamas war, and allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Beyond the domestic and sporting issues and despite the nominal Olympic Truce in place, the wars in Ukraine and Palestine set a more conflicted political background to the 2024 Summer Olympics. Domestic organisational issues and controversies The Seine in the opening ceremony Part of the opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on the Seine, the first time such a ceremony was held on a river. This decision raised several concerns. Using the Seine as a public outdoor space was to make the opening ceremony accessible to many more people than usual. In 2022, Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin proposed a reduction from the initial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Summer Olympics
) , nations = TBA , athletes = 10,500 ''(quota limit)'' , events = 329 in 32 sports (48 disciplines) , opening = 26 July 2024 , closing = 11 August 2024 , opened_by = , stadium = Stade de France Jardins du Trocadéro and River Seine , summer_prev = Tokyo 2020 , summer_next = ''Los Angeles 2028'' , winter_prev = Beijing 2022 , winter_next = '' Milano–Cortina 2026'' The 2024 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 2024), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la XXXIIIe Olympiade, links=no) and also known as Paris 2024, is an upcoming international multi-sport event that is scheduled to take place from 26 July to 11 August 2024 with Paris as its main host city and 16 cities spread across Metropolitan France and one in the French overseas territory of Tahiti as subsites. Paris was awarded the Games at the 131st IOC Session in Lima, Peru, on 13 September 2017. Due to multiple withdrawals that left only Paris and Los Angeles in contention, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyberattack
A cyberattack is any offensive maneuver that targets computer information systems, computer networks, infrastructures, or personal computer devices. An attacker is a person or process that attempts to access data, functions, or other restricted areas of the system without authorization, potentially with malicious intent. Depending on the context, cyberattacks can be part of cyber warfare or cyberterrorism. A cyberattack can be employed by sovereign states, individuals, groups, societies or organisations and it may originate from an anonymous source. A product that facilitates a cyberattack is sometimes called a cyber weapon. Cyber attacks have increased with an alarming rate for the last few years A cyberattack may steal, alter, or destroy a specified target by hacking into a susceptible system. Cyberattacks can range from installing spyware on a personal computer to attempting to destroy the infrastructure of entire nations. Legal experts are seeking to limit the use of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phryges
The Phryges (, ) are the official mascots of Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. They are two anthropomorphic Phrygian caps that are a symbol of France. History Origins The Phrygian cap, a soft, generally red hat, was worn by freed slaves in Phrygia, an ancient Greek kingdom in what is now Turkey. At the time of the French Revolution, the Phrygian cap was worn as a symbol of freedom. Marianne, the national personification of France and basis of the Paris 2024 emblem, is often depicted wearing a Phrygian cap. Naming and unveiling On 14 November 2022, Tony Estanguet, president of the organizing committee, revealed that the Paris 2024 mascot was not an animal nor fictional creature but an object, saying that "We chose an ideal rather than an animal. We chose the Phrygian cap because it's a very strong symbol for the French Republic. For French people, it's a very well-known object that is a symbol of freedom," adding that "the fact that the Paralympics mascot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Rahimi
Tina Rahimi (born 13 March 1996) is an Australian boxer with Iranian origin. She participated in the 2022 Commonwealth Games and won Bronze Medal in the Women's Featherweight Division. She is one of the first Australian Muslim women boxers, and the first to compete in the Olympics, at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. She lives in Bankstown. Results * Boxing at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 57 kg See also * Iranian Australians Iranian Australians or Persian Australians are Australian citizens who are of Iranian ancestry or who hold Iranian citizenship. Terminology Iranian-Australian is used interchangeably with Persian-Australian, partly due to the fact that, i ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Rahimi, Tina 1996 births Living people Australian women boxers Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Australia Commonwealth Games medallists in boxing Boxers at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Place of birth missin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sounkamba Sylla
Sounkamba Sylla (born 9 July 1998) is a French sprinter. Career She was selected as a travelling reserve for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She ran for France in the women's 4x400m relay team at the 2022 World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon. She was a member of the French women's 4x400m relay team at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest. She ran as part of the French team at the 2024 World Relays Championships in Nassau, Bahamas. She ran in the women's 4x400m relay at the 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome in June 2024. Later that month, she finished fourth in the 400 metres at the French Athletics Championships in Angers. She was selected for France’s 400m women’s and mixed relay teams at the 2024 Paris Olympics. She expressed disappointment on social media that she would be unable to attend the opening ceremony due to her desire to wear a hijab, included on a list of items France’s minister for sport had prohibited in September 2023, say ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hijab
In modern usage, hijab ( ar, حجاب, translit=ḥijāb, ) generally refers to headcoverings worn by Muslim women. Many Muslims believe it is obligatory for every female Muslim who has reached the age of puberty to wear a head covering. While such headcoverings can come in many forms, hijab often specifically refers to a cloth wrapped around the head, neck and chest, covering the hair and neck but leaving the face visible. The term was originally used to denote a partition, a curtain, or was sometimes used for the Islamic rules of modesty. This is the usage in the verses of the Qur'an, in which the term ''hijab'' sometimes refers to a curtain separating visitors to Muhammad's main house from his wives' residential lodgings. This has led some to claim that the mandate of the Qur'an applied only to the wives of Muhammad, and not to the entirety of women. Another interpretation can also refer to the seclusion of women from men in the public sphere, whereas a metaphysical dime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French National Olympic And Sports Committee
The French National Olympic and Sports Committee (french: Comité national olympique et sportif français, CNOSF) is the National Olympic Committee of France. It is responsible for France's participation in the Olympic Games, as well as for all of France's overseas departments and territories except French Polynesia. History The French Olympic Committee was established in 1894 in Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. .... In 1972, by the merging with the National Sports Committee, has changed its name to the ''French National Olympic and Sports Committee''. List of presidents This is following list of presidents: Presidents of French Olympic Committee Presidents of National Sports Committee Presidents of French National Olympic and Sports Committee Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raised Fist
The raised fist, or the clenched fist, is a long-standing image of mixed meaning, often a symbol of political solidarity. It is also a common symbol of communism, socialism, and other revolutionary social movements. It can also represent a salute to express unity, strength, or resistance. History The origin of the raised fist as either a symbol or gesture is unclear. Its use in trade unionism, anarchism, and the labor movement had begun by the 1910s. William "Big Bill" Haywood, a founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World, used the metaphor of a fist as something greater than the sum of its parts during a speech at the 1913 Paterson silk strike. Journalist and socialist activist John Reed described hearing a similar description from a participant in the strike. A large raised fist rising from a crowd of striking workers was used to promote a mass strike in Budapest in 1912. In the United States, clenched fist was described by the magazine Mother Earth as "symboli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Confederation Of Labour (France)
The General Confederation of Labour (french: Confédération Générale du Travail, CGT) is a national trade union center, founded in 1895 in the city of Limoges. It is the first of the five major French confederations of trade unions. It is the largest in terms of votes (32.1% at the 2002 professional election, 34.0% in the 2008 election), and second largest in terms of membership numbers. Its membership decreased to 650,000 members in 1995–96 (it had more than doubled when François Mitterrand was elected president in 1981), before increasing today to between 700,000 and 720,000 members, slightly fewer than the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail (CFDT). According to the historian M. Dreyfus, the direction of the CGT is slowly evolving, since the 1990s, during which it cut all organic links with the French Communist Party (PCF), in favour of a more moderate stance. The CGT is concentrating its attention, in particular since the 1995 general strikes, to tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Estanguet
Tony Estanguet (born 6 May 1978 in Pau) is a French slalom canoeist and a three-time Olympic champion in C1. He competed at the international level from 1994 to 2012. Racing career Estanguet won three Olympic gold medals in the C1 event in 2000, 2004 and 2012. At the 2004 games in Athens he won the gold medal after a late judges decision to award a 2-second penalty to Michal Martikán. Estanguet was the flag-bearer for France at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics opening ceremony. He finished in the 9th position (out of 12 competitors; only the first eight would qualify for the final) in the semi-finals of the C1 event and was thus eliminated from the final. At the 2012 London Summer Olympics, he became the first French Olympian to win three gold medals in the same Olympic discipline. He won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with five golds (C1: 2006, 2009, 2010; C1 team: 2005, 2007), six silvers (C1: 2003, 2005, 2007; C1 team: 1997, 2003, 2009), and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wiretapping
Telephone tapping (also wire tapping or wiretapping in American English) is the monitoring of telephone and Internet-based conversations by a third party, often by covert means. The wire tap received its name because, historically, the monitoring connection was an actual electrical tap on the telephone line. Legal wiretapping by a government agency is also called lawful interception. Passive wiretapping monitors or records the traffic, while active wiretapping alters or otherwise affects it. Legal status Lawful interception is officially strictly controlled in many countries to safeguard privacy; this is the case in all liberal democracies. In theory, telephone tapping often needs to be authorized by a court, and is again in theory, normally only approved when evidence shows it is not possible to detect criminal or subversive activity in less intrusive ways. Oftentimes, the law and regulations require that the crime investigated must be at least of a certain severity. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
