Friedhelm Julius Beucher in an interview after the Paralympics – Sport
Interviewed by Sebastian Fisher Friedhelm Julius Beucher, 75, President of the German Disabled Sports Association (DBS), left a message of peace on Thursday on the stone arches in the athletes’ village of Zhangjiakou, on which athletes and officials sign: “Peace for all, Friedhelm Julius Beucher, NPC Germany”. The message was gone on Friday. “It just […]
Blues on time and stunning Ukrainians
He had opened the ball, and undertook to close it in the same way: as a virtuoso. Skier Arthur Bauchet sounded the first Marseillaise of the French Paralympic team at the very start of the Games in Beijing, Saturday March 5, by winning gold in the downhill. The 21-year-old champion executed his last score perfectly […]
Sport and politics: after the Paralympics and Olympics in Beijing: a different neutrality (nd-aktuell.de)
Frosty games: The Paralympics in Beijing ended on Sunday with the closing ceremony. Foto: imago images/Matic Klansek “I wish you all success and good luck. Thanks very much. Peace!” Andrew Parsons shouted at the Beijing stadium on Friday last week. However, the television audience in the host country, China, was not able to catch all […]
in the bubble, pine fever
Tao, 21, with round glasses on his nose, dedicated his day off to it. If she made the trip between the mountains of Zhangjiakou and the capital, Beijing, that day, it was for this sole purpose: “exchange pins with athletes and reporters”, she announces with a big smile. → CHRONICLE. Beijing Olympics: in the Olympic […]
dantesque conditions to finish the Games
This is a first in the history of Olympism. In Zhangjiakou, competitors in the mass start (mass start) of 50 km in cross-country skiing will have traveled… 28.4 km. This Saturday, February 19, they learned less than an hour from the start of the race that the queen event was cut by 20 kilometers, and […]
Paralympics: In Search of Youth – Sport
The cross-country skiing coach Albert Kürner had always thought it was a cliché that professional athletes speak into microphones after success: that they have not yet “realized” what they have just achieved. On Tuesday of this week he knew how it feels. The chairman of the St. Peter ski club in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district told […]
Second gold in Beijing: Forster dominates slalom
Anna-Lena Forster at the slalom in Beijing Image: EPA The 26-year-old monoskier easily outperforms the competition in Beijing. She wins her second gold medal with a lead of 2.32 seconds. Anna-Lena Forster impressively won the second gold medal at the Paralympics in Beijing. The 26-year-old monoskier finished Saturday’s slalom in the sitting class ahead of […]
the end of Games locked in their bubble
China brilliantly succeeded in its Games, which ended on Sunday February 20, in sporting terms, ranking third nation against sixteenth place four years ago. But she knew she was being scrutinized on a completely different level: her management of the pandemic, as she never ceased to praise her “zero Covid” strategy. Here too, the results […]
“There was no movement”: WTA boss fights for contact with Peng Shuai
“There was no movement” WTA boss fights for contact with Peng Shuai 03/11/2022, 11:18 p.m No one seriously knows how Peng Shuai is doing. There has been no new information from the tennis player since the Olympic Games. Her performances staged in Beijing say nothing about her condition. But the WTA Women’s Tennis Association is […]
the sports report reveals a growing specialization by country
Almost. A small medal is missing to equal PyeongChang’s record record in 2018, and no doubt this little nothing is enough to oscillate between satisfaction and slight bitterness when it comes to taking stock of the Blues at the Beijing Games: they bring back the same number titles (5), more silver medals (7 against 2), […]