MusiqueNow :newpride: · @MusiqueNow
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Preston MacDougall · @ChemicalEyeGuy
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’CarriRichardson has outrun the absurdity of the Committee prior to the in 2020 and has proven that she is the fastest woman in the world 🌎!

nbcnews.com/news/sports/americ

#sha #usa #olympicgames #tokyogames

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EUCUP · @eucup
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John Arnold · @JohnDA
85 followers · 1261 posts · Server social.vivaldi.net

_The Evening Post_, 15 Aug 1923:
AN EMPIRE UNITED
PROPOSAL FOR OLYMPIC GAMES

Great Britain and Dominions and Crown Colonies should enter the procession together in alphabetical order, or in order of seniority, each … with its own flag.… the world … would see the Motherland with her children solid and compact behind her, a real and living example of an Empire united in every sense of the word..…
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news

#onthisday #otd #paperspast #newzealand #olympicgames #britishempire

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Eurosport · @Eurosport
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DoomsdaysCW · @DoomsdaysCW
1327 followers · 17351 posts · Server kolektiva.social

Hmmmm... So, like when a country is selected to host , they seem to come up with TONS OF MONEY to pay for Olympic , and yet there's NO MONEY when could be mitigated by IMMEDIATELY FUNDING 100% , , , etc., with the technology and resources we have on hand?!!! SOUNDS LIKE CAPITALIST BULLSHIT TO ME!

#olympicgames #infrastructure #ClimateChange #tidal #solarpower #windpower #greenwashing #corporatism #oligarchy #capitalism

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Queer Lit Cats · @QLC
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Matthew Rimmer · @drrimmer
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Cycling Europe · @cyclingeu
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Tim Richards · @timrichards
1837 followers · 13243 posts · Server aus.social

Hmm call me elitist, but I'd rather have a ticketed seat in a stadium than stand on a crowded riverbank in the hope of seeing something for free.
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Paris floats new venue for Olympics Games opening ceremony

smh.com.au/world/europe/paris-

#paris #olympics #olympicgames

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“Frankly, $6-7 billion for a sporting event – we are not doing that. That does not represent value for money, that is all cost and no benefit,” he said.

“We will instead deliver all and more of the legacy benefits in housing,
sporting infrastructure, tourism ..."

𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗱𝘆 good move by the Victorian State Government! Uber-sports spending has been over-the-top for decades, with the various Games at the top of the list. Spending the money on social programmes makes so much more sense. OK, so he has included sports infrastructures, but I'll give him that 😏.

thenewdaily.com.au/sport/2023/

#commonwealthgames #olympicgames #sports #economy #socialjustice

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Sandra Kalniete · @kalniete
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After our great meeting in Strasbourg this week, the hockey legend Dominik Hasek and I are totally on the same page - as long as the barbaric onslaught against continues, this is no time for and friendly competition with the aggressors and . t.co/SmvEaiHVNP

🐦🔗: n.respublicae.eu/Kalniete/stat

#Ukraine #olympicgames #russia #Belarus

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You Know What · @ykwblog
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Ken Polsson · @KenP
11 followers · 48 posts · Server philately.social

Umm-al-Qiwain, 1972, 5 riyals airmail. Commemorating the 20th Summer , held in Munich, Germany. Honoring Gold medal winner in : Dieter Kottysch of Germany.

#olympicgames #boxing #stamps #stampcollecting #philately

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Miguel Afonso Caetano · @remixtures
477 followers · 1821 posts · Server tldr.nettime.org

: "On the 23rd of March 2023, overshadowed by months of protests against Emmanuel Macron’s controversial pension reform, the French National Assembly passed a new law allowing algorithmic video surveillance during the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2024. Professing to provide greater security for the estimated 600,000 Olympic visitors, the law permits trialing these invasive technologies beyond the Olympic Games until the end of 2024.

Unprecedented in the EU, Article 7 of the Olympic law also allows the algorithm-driven surveillance of concerts and festivals that could involve a high security or terrorism risk. Having been recently approved by the Constitutional Council, the first deployment of algorithm-driven surveillance cameras is already planned for the Rugby World Cup this September."

algorithmwatch.org/en/let-the-

#eu #france #olympicgames #ai #surveillance #algorithms #facialrecognition

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WACOCA · @wacoca
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BC Info Bot · @bcinfo
353 followers · 23526 posts · Server mastodon.roitsystems.ca

April 22, 1906

The begin. While the meet in practice was the second Olympic Games of the modern era, it is not recognized as such by the Olympic .

#history #athens #greece #olympicgames #international #committee #ioc

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EPP Group · @EPPGroup
193 followers · 8225 posts · Server respublicae.eu

It is usual for dictators and authoritarian regimes to weaponise sports to expand their influence.

For Russia and the Putin regime, sport is primarily a political tool.

Ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from the 2024 Paris !

Read more: epp.group/p8ppx6

🐦🔗: n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/stat

#olympicgames

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MMR Nmd · @MMRnmd
681 followers · 10640 posts · Server todon.eu