— 31 January 2023
With less than 600 days to go before the Paris 2024 Games, fencing is not hiding its impatience. The next Olympic and Paralympic event promises to be historic for... Read more »
— 10 August 2022
The document uses few words, only ten short paragraphs, but they say a lot. It is signed by Vadym Guttsait, the Ukrainian Minister of Youth and Sport and President... Read more »
— 15 March 2022
Two weeks have passed since the IOC announced its “recommendation” to international federations to ban Russian and Belarusian athletes from international competitions. Two weeks in which the Olympic movement... Read more »
— 14 March 2022
A new actor in the French-speaking sphere of the international sports movement. The Alliance francophone d’escrime (AFE) held its launch meeting last weekend in Paris (10 to 12 March).... Read more »
— 10 March 2022
Some signs are unmistakable. Within the Olympic movement, only a handful of international federations have retained a French-speaking name. The International Fencing Federation (FIE) is one of them. It... Read more »
— 2 March 2022
The year 2022 has not yet completed its first quarter, but it is already over for the vast majority of Russian and Belarusian athletes. They can put away their... Read more »
— 1 March 2022
The decision is historic. It sets a precedent. For the first time, the IOC has scrapped its sacrosanct political neutrality. Faced with the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian... Read more »
— 28 February 2022
Sanctions are raining down on Russia. They have been falling like hail since the Moscow regime’s decision to invade Ukraine. Already suspended from the Olympic movement for two years,... Read more »
— 2 November 2021
The democratic exercise takes a strange turn in the Olympic movement. The host cities of the Games are chosen without any calendar or electoral process. And the presidential elections... Read more »
