Marie Bochet, “the tigress has calmed down”
She carried the flag of the French delegation to the Paralympic Games in PyeongChang, in 2018. This Friday, March 4, she leaves the honor to her teammate and Nordic skier Benjamin Daviet for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Paralympic Games . Not sorry to remain anonymous, very relative for an eight-time Olympic champion, French […]
A symbol of isolation (nd-aktuell.de)
The Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games opened at the Bird’s Nest Stadium on Friday. At the ceremony, China presented itself as a country of inclusion. Foto: imago images/Xinhua In sport, there are few messages left by the Chinese Communist Party that are uncritically taken up in the West. One of them: the 2008 Summer Paralympics […]
A loud cry for peace
UAt 9:02 p.m. local time, Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke the traditional opening formula. But instead of being a sign of peace, the Paralympics start under the impression of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, and the sport has long been overshadowed. Andrew Parsons, the President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), gave an […]
Opening of the Paralympics: Silent Cry for Peace – Sport
The applause, as recorded by the microphones, sounded polite, not frenetic, but respectful as they entered the stadium: 20 Ukrainian athletes on Friday evening in Beijing’s “Bird’s Nest” arena. Some raised their fists. The German athletes later took off their hats for a moment as they entered. And Andrew Parsons, President of the International Paralympic […]
Paralympics: powder keg in Beijing – WORLD
Es started with curling. It wasn’t just the Paralympic world that was in turmoil at the time, because Russian and Belarusian athletes were surprisingly admitted to the Beijing event, albeit under a neutral flag. The criticism of Wednesday’s decision was immense worldwide, and the lack of understanding was huge. The Paralympics don’t start until this […]
Paralympics without Russia and Belarus: Boycotts work after all – Sport
Let no one claim that boycotts in sport are useless. That’s a popular tale of the functionaries: that boycotts only affect innocent athletes, that politics should rather stay outside when it comes to sport – before completely apolitical sport makes itself at home with the dictator, pins medals on his lapel and strikes up deals […]
Paralympics-Aus for Russia and Belarus: Unfortunate role of the IPC
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IPC makes U-turn under pressure (nd-aktuell.de)
Ivan Zaplin (left) and Ivan Kodlozerow trained on the Paralympic trails in Zhangjiakou on Wednesday morning. Shortly thereafter, their Russian team was expelled. Photo: imago images / Gavriil Grigorov It must have been a short night for many sports officials in the Paralympic Villages. Video calls, writing protest letters, threatening boycotts. On Thursday, the International […]
Russia and Belarus now excluded from the Paralympics after all – sport
The Beijing Paralympic Games are now taking place without athletes from Russia and Belarus. The International Paralympic Committee backed up Thursday less than 24 hours after its controversial decision to allow athletes to fly the neutral flag. Several teams and athletes had previously threatened to boycott the games. “We at the IPC firmly believe that […]
Russia no longer belongs to the sports world (nd-aktuell.de)
Russia’s volleyball players lost the Olympic finals in the summer of 2021. They wanted to win gold at the 2022 home World Cup. But it is now taking place in another country and without her. Foto: imago images/Sergei Bobylev The orienteers made the start. Even though their sport is not Olympic, their world governing body […]