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Swimming, rugby, athletics: the sports world is taking up the issue of transgender people

June 22, 2022

From swimming pools to rugby pitches, via athletics tracks, the world of sport is seizing on the issue of transgender athletes… to postpone it…

Athletics: Frenchwoman Cyrena Samba-Mayela crowned indoor world champion in the 60m hurdles

March 20, 2022

The French Cyrena Samba-Mayela was crowned indoor world champion in the 60m hurdles on Saturday March 19 in Belgrade. This is the first podium…

Frédérique Bangué, sporting soul

November 19, 2021

” Mom, you won lots of medals, so i would like to win some too! ” When she heard her daughter Victoria innocently utter…

Paralympic Games: Charles-Antoine Kouakou, 6th French gold medal

August 31, 2021

After the tandem in cycling, it is now the turn of athletics and sprinting to put France in the spotlight at the Tokyo Paralympic…

Paralympic Games: Pierre Fairbank, an example of longevity

August 26, 2021

He prolongs a dream which will perhaps lead him to the Paris Games in 2024. Pierre Fairbank, born in 1971 in New Caledonia, is…

Tokyo Olympics: the surprises of these Olympics

August 10, 2021

Is sport the mirror of our society? To this essay subject, the Olympic athletes responded with unexpected performances, broken trajectories, injuries and doubts in…

Tokyo Olympics: the track and the magic shoes

August 7, 2021

At the dawn of the last World Athletics Championships in Doha in 2019, the specialists were clear: the era of cascading records was over,…

Tokyo Olympics: at 41, Malindi Elmore transplanted on the track

August 6, 2021

“I pinched myself to believe it. “ When she learns, in June 2021, that she will be traveling to Tokyo, Malindi Elmore is jubilant…

Tokyo Olympics: Kevin Mayer, the money of courage in the decathlon

August 5, 2021

It was at the javelin point that the French Kevin Mayer, off the podium before the final events of the Olympic decathlon, gleaned his…

Tokyo Olympics: French athletics in search of a new lease of life

August 2, 2021

“French athletics looking for a medalist”. The ad could have been passed as it is, as the discipline seems to be going through a…