Tag: Paris
LeBron, Steph Curry lead Team USA pool for Paris Olympics
FILE – LeBron James #6 of the Los Angeles Lakers speaks to Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors during their game at Chase Center on October 18, 2022 in San Francisco, California. Ezra Shaw/Getty Images/AFP There are few surprises in USA Basketball’s men’s player pool for the Paris Olympics that was announced Tuesday,…
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Yulo bringing back old ‘stunts’ to land Paris Games medal
Southeast Asian Games – Artistic Gymnastics – Olympic Marquee, Phnom Penh, Cambodia – May 8, 2023 Philippines’ Carlos Edriel Poquiz Yulo in action during the men’s qualification REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa Carlos Yulo has mapped out a calendar that he feels could at least land him a medal in the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Holed up in…
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Female sharpshooters put Paris in crosshairs
INQUIRER.net stock images Franchette Shayne Quiroz boosted her chances for a Summer Games appearance in Paris after wiping out two national records at the recent 2024 Asian Shooting Championships, a rifle and pistol Olympic qualification meet held in Jakarta, Indonesia. Wielding two new pistols in her quest to don the national colors in the glamorous…
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Seven are in, but Team PH eyeing to send more athletes to Paris Games
Abraham “Bambol” Tolentino —INQUIRER FILE PHOTO Barely six months from the 2024 Olympics in Paris, Team Philippines is already assured of sending at least seven athletes from four sports with a number of them having the potential to win gold or at least climb the podium. Pole vaulter EJ Obiena, ranked second in the world,…
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Former French basketball player loses Paris 2024 role
FILE PHOTO: France’s Emilie Gomis celebrates silver medal with her family during victory ceremony at the North Greenwich Arena during the London 2012 Olympic Games August 11, 2012.REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo PARIS–Former French national team basketball player Emilie Gomis was stripped of her role as an Olympics ambassador over a controversy linked to a social media…
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Liverpool emerge as ‘serious candidates’ to sign Paris Saint-Germain forward Kylian Mbapp in summer – Paper Talk | Football News
The top stories and transfer rumours from Tuesday’s newspapers… THE SUN Liverpool have emerged as “serious candidates” to sign Kylian Mbappe from Paris Saint-Germain in the summer. (Le Parisien) Italy defender Leonardo Bonucci has waxed lyrical about “nasty and tough” England defenders John Stones and Harry Maguire. Bonucci has also revealed he does not regret…
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Hidilyn, Nesthy, and Carlo Paalam open New Year hoping to making it to Paris
Boxers Nesthy Petecio (left) and Carlo Paalam won silver medals in the last Olympics but are now hard-pressed to make the grade for the next one in Paris like Hidilyn Diaz-Naranjo (photobelow), the Tokyo gold medalist trying to make it to the French capital via the long route. (INQUIRER FILE PHOTOS0 For the nation’s premier…
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All roads lead to Paris in 2024
FILE PHOTO: The logo of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games inside an official Paris 2024 store at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, France, December 21, 2023. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/File Photo LONDON–All sporting roads lead to Paris next year with the first post-COVID Olympic Games looming large on the horizon but the two-week extravaganza…
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Kayla guns for Paris slot in Doha worlds
Philippines’ Kayla Sanchez competes in the heats of women’s 100m freestyle event during the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou in China’s eastern Zhejiang province on September 26, 2023. (Photo by MANAN VATSYAYANA / AFP) Kayla Sanchez is less than a second away from the 2024 Paris Olympics. The ace swimmer hopes to cover that gap…
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Paris Olympics organizers sail into choppy waters
This photograph shows signs displayed by activists of the collective “Le revers de la medaille” in front of the National Olympic and Sports Committee in Saint-Denis, Paris’ suburb, on October 30, 2023, to bring awareness on the consequences of the Olympics on precarious population and the people living in the streets of areas where events…
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