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Macron has been hugging France’s heroes as though he dare not let the Olympics go | Angelique Chrisafis

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 11 August, 2024

Medal success has offered the president welcome weeks of respite in his country’s fraught political climate – but what happens when the athletes go home?

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, is famed for his enthusiastic hugging of sports stars – as the footballer Kylian Mbappé can attest. Macron walked on to the pitch, somewhat awkwardly pulled Mbappé to his chest and patted his head to console him after defeat to Argentina in the last World Cup.

But at the Paris Olympics, Macron’s touchy-feely approach to the nation’s athletes has exceeded anything that had gone before.

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À la Maison des fiertés des JO, la joie et l’amertume de la communauté LGBTQI

news.movim.eu / Mediapart • 9 August, 2024

Record de visibilité des athlètes LGBTQI, cérémonie d’ouverture, mais aussi cyberharcèlement et polémiques transphobes et intersexophobe… À la Maison des fiertés des Jeux olympiques de Paris, la communauté LGBTQI tire un premier bilan mitigé des Jeux.

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JO, jour 14. Les sports collectifs français en finale, des fédérations en sursis

news.movim.eu / Mediapart • 9 August, 2024

Durant cette quinzaine olympique, Mediapart propose un tour quotidien des actualités de la compétition sportive et de ses à-côtés. Au sommaire du 9 août: les handballeuses et les basketteurs français en finale, les fédérations d’haltérophilie et de boxe en sursis et Benjamin Thomas en or en cyclisme sur piste.

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Accès aux soins: une quarantaine de communes bretonnes mettent l’État en demeure

news.movim.eu / Mediapart • 9 August, 2024

Les édiles de 44 communes des Côtes-d’Armor ont publié un arrêté municipal visant à pallier le «trouble à l’ordre public» que représente l’inégalité d’accès aux soins. Le mode d’action pourrait bien obliger l’État à indemniser certaines communes.

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In France, the president has too much power – Macron’s hubris shows why we need a new system | Charlotte Minvielle

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 August, 2024

We’re vulnerable to presidential whims – and that’s opened the door to the far right. We urgently need to build a Sixth Republic

When Emmanuel Macron called a shock election after the French far right’s victory in the 9 June European elections, he gambled on one of the shortest and most high-risk electoral campaigns in our country’s history. At a moment when the far right had just gained a record number of seats in the European parliament, the president’s unilateral and reckless act – deciding to dissolve parliament three years before elections were due – plunged the country into fear and uncertainty.

Macron was certainly not banking on the left forming a new alliance called the New Popular Front (NFP) and putting a solid programme together in record time to contest the elections. In the end, enough voters mobilised against the far right as a threat to the republic, and the election led to the consolidation of three parliamentary blocs in the national assembly. The NFP came first, beating Macron’s centre-right alliance, Ensemble, into second place. Marine Le Pen’s far-right Rassemblement National (the National Rally ) came third.

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Paris 2024 Olympics day 14: open water swimming, athletics, golf and more – live

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 9 August, 2024

Speaking of US dominance of basketball, Serbia almost pulled off one of the all-time Olympics upsets when they had the men’s “Dream Team” on the rack and 76-62 down at the start of the final quarter of last night’s semi-final. Coming into the Paris Games, the US had won gold in eight of the last 10 Olympics, with their last stumble coming in 2004 when they won bronze. Luckily, Steph Curry came to the rescue….

Heard about the Opal who wanted Gold? Australian basketball GOAT Lauren Jackson is at her fifth Olympics and is yet to win the shiniest medal of all. Instead, at every turn, Jackson and her Opals teammates have been foiled by Team USA whom they meet tonight in the semi-final at Bercy Arena. Can they snap the hoodoo and send Lauren out a winner? Kieran Pender asks: why not?

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Thierry Henry may have found second calling as he chases new golden goal | Jonathan Liew

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 August, 2024

Goalscoring legend has built the France team from scratch and they stand on the verge of Olympic glory against Spain

It was Thierry Henry’s eldest daughter who ended his playing career. Téa was nine years old, and one day in their New York home, she tapped him and said: “You’re it.” Henry wanted to chase after her, but couldn’t. The pain in his left and right achilles was simply too acute and agonising. Henry, by then a largely totemic striker for the New York Red Bulls, retired soon after.

So there was an emotional moment at the end of France’s comeback win in the Olympic Games semi-final against Egypt in Lyon on Monday. As Jean-Philippe Mateta put France 2-1 up in extra time, Henry turned to the stands, spread both arms and gazed up at the stands in a reverential, almost religious, ecstasy. Afterwards, video emerged of Henry dancing jubilantly with his players in the tunnel.

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Family of British doctor missing in French Pyrenees appeal for help

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 August, 2024

Tom Doherty, 67, messaged his family to say he had fallen and could not move shortly before they lost contact

The family of a retired British doctor have issued an urgent appeal after he went missing in the French Pyrenees almost 48 hours ago.

Tom Doherty, 67, from St Albans was hiking and camping near Col d’Escots when his family lost contact with him on Tuesday evening, just after he sent messages saying he had fallen and couldn’t move.

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Marjane Satrapi: «Nous sommes tous chez nous en France»

news.movim.eu / Mediapart • 6 July, 2024

La réalisatrice franco-iranienne lance un appel aux cinéastes étrangers pour contrer les idées d’extrême droite dans un film collectif. Elle invite aussi toutes celles et ceux d’origine étrangère à se mettre en grève pour que la France réalise leur apport essentiel.