Demonstrations were held in several French regions near the Alps against holding the 2030 Winter Olympic Games in the country, French media reported on Saturday.
14/12/2023 - Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux’s project features among the selected works of 2023, which also come courtesy of Louise Hémon, Frédéric Farrucci, Lawrence Valin and Ugo Bienvenu
The IOC Executive Board has selected only one of the three declared candidates for this edition, that of the French Alps. A gamble won in record time for a project to be finalized in the coming months, with many challenges at stake. The French application ticked many boxes: 95% of existing facilities, the smallest possible surface area - 500 km from north to south all the same. The only uncertainty is about the speed rink oval. The one used for the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville no longer exists as such.
ROMANIA (WNCT) — More than 300 firefighters, including a team sent from Romania, were at the scene of a wildfire that was still burning in southeast France on Tuesday, August 22, days after it first broke out, BFMTV reported. Footage taken by a volunteer group shows aerial firefighting efforts underway as smoke billows from a hillside in […]