Athletics and Other Games, or You Are What You Wear.
Irish National Opera's staging of Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade transfers to London's Linbury ahead of this summer's games,. Some beautiful music, gloriously sung.
As the Olympic torch lands in Marseille, we ask whether Paris and its suburbs will benefit from the Olympics investments in infrastructure and be able to overcome the 'white elephant' syndrome. Mark Owen speaks to Sylvain Bersinger, chief economist of Asterès, a consulting group that gives advice to businesses in the public sector. #Olympics#Paris#France
Paris rubbish collectors could strike over the summer, a major French union said Thursday, raising the spectre of piles of stinking trash on the streets during the Olympic Games. Walkouts could start in May and continue from July 1 to September 8, the CGT union branch representing binmen warned, a period that includes the Games,...
I'd just like to say I've been to enough protests of various topics that I have, in the past, seen anarchists, black block types, etc. I know what they look like.
I saw them before the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, and another time in Vancouver at a Climate protest. In both cases they were a tiny TINY portion of the crowd and stuck out like a sore thumb and have never, in my experience, ever been acting in connection with the overall group. They are their own thing.
There has been nothing of that sort in any protest that I have seen in these #Palestine protests. So any suggestion of such is, in my opinion, a pure fabrication and an incitement and dog whistle to Police to justify violence against the encampments.
🥇In Calgary fanden 1988 die Olympischen Winterspiele statt und DAS waren die bemerkenswertesten Olympischen Spiele aller Zeiten, jedenfalls für uns Filmfans.🎬
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A group of 40 countries initially threatened to boycott the #Paris 2024 #Olympics if Russian and Belarusian athletes were to participate. But the steam appears to have run out.
Time is running out to prevent Russia and #Belarus from participating in this summer’s competition. With the IOC unwilling to stop these athletes from participating in the 2024 Olympic Games, the international community must now decide how to proceed.
Paris rubbish collectors threaten Olympics strike over 'excessive workload' (www.france24.com)
Paris rubbish collectors could strike over the summer, a major French union said Thursday, raising the spectre of piles of stinking trash on the streets during the Olympic Games. Walkouts could start in May and continue from July 1 to September 8, the CGT union branch representing binmen warned, a period that includes the Games,...