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Paris Marathon: French athletes in the starting blocks

April 1, 2023

On April 2, Clémence will be on the starting line, some 42 kilometers from the finish line of the Paris Marathon. A long distance…

Sports practice: “Many use it as a psychic crutch”

March 31, 2023

The cross : Is the marathon an event accessible to all? Helene Romano: Marathon runners often say that with good will and practice, we…

Athletics: transgender people banned from women’s competitions

March 23, 2023

Transgender people are banned from women’s athletics competitions “as of March 31”announced Thursday, March 23 the president of World Athletics, the international federation. “The…

Death of Dick Fosbury: these athletes who revolutionized their sport

March 14, 2023

A jump on the back, a squat start, new figures on ice skates or a ball taken from the heel. Some athletes have dared…

Death of Dick Fosbury, American athlete who revolutionized the high jump

March 13, 2023

Former American athlete Dick Fosbury, Olympic champion in 1968, who revolutionized the high jump with a technique that became a school and now bears…

Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge sets new marathon world record

September 25, 2022

Will we one day see a man run the marathon – the emblematic test of athletics – below the symbolic bar of two hours?…

European Multisport and Swimming Championships: the Blues seduce two years before the Olympics

August 16, 2022

He had warned that he would stop at “the slightest warning”. Touched to an adductor three weeks after his second title of world champion…

Athletics: Kevin Mayer in gold, the only French medal at the Worlds

July 26, 2022

Two years from the Paris Games and a year after the Olympic silver, Kevin Mayer returned to world gold in the decathlon on Sunday…

Why the United States had never hosted a World Athletics Championships

July 15, 2022

How could the country with the most medals in the history of the world athletics championships wait almost forty years before organizing this competition…

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…