(C) The Conversation This story was originally published by The Conversation and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . 2024 Paris Olympics – News, Research and Analysis – The Conversation – page 1 [1] ['Richard Baka', 'Wycliffe W. Njororai Simiyu', 'Vaughan Cruickshank', 'Holly Thorpe', 'Adam Ali', 'Brendon Hyndman', 'Peter Donnelly', 'Alan C Oldham', 'Angela Schneider', 'Tom Hartley'] Date: 2024-07-25 12:48:46+00:00 Asano Ikko/AFP July 25, 2024 Are the Olympic Games politically neutral? Since July 2020, the Olympic Charter prohibits “any kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda”. But what if the Olympic project was in its essence political? Hananeko_Studio/Shutterstock July 25, 2024 Surviving the Olympiczzzzz: how fans can best cope with sleep deprivation during major overseas events Many sports fans will suffer sleep deprivation as they stay up to watch the Olympics but there are ways to minimise it and bounce back after the closing ceremony. AP Photo/Michel Euler July 24, 2024 Paris Olympics promote sustainability for good reason: Climate change is putting athletes and their sports at risk The 2024 Summer Games are going all in on renewable energy, recycled materials and more to shrink their carbon footprint. They’re a test bed for how big events can do better for the environment. Agence Rol/Gallica July 24, 2024 Paris 2024 reaches gender parity among athletes, but sport has always policed women’s bodies The modern Olympics were designed for men, and have gone to great lengths to exclude female athletes. Ludovic MARIN/AFP July 24, 2024 83 bottles of wine per person: how experts are calculating the Paris Olympics’ carbon footprint Organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have made big and bold green promises. Are they up to the heavy carbon lifting? Getty Images July 23, 2024 Who will win Olympic rugby sevens gold? Our algorithm uses 10,000 simulations to rank the teams The rugby sevens bring a festival air to the Olympic Games, but the competition is deadly serious. Here are the likely contenders in Paris. STYLIANOS AXIOTIS/EPA July 23, 2024 Nude athletes and fights to the death: what really happened at the ancient Olympics Today’s Olympics are vastly different to those that began in ancient Greece. So what was it like attending those ancient games? (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla) July 23, 2024 Transgender athletes face an uncertain future at the Olympics as reactionary policies gain ground While transgender people have gained some recognition and human rights in the past decade, a well-financed reactionary movement is rolling them back. Thibault Camus/AAP July 23, 2024 Do hosts win more medals? Are athletes getting older? 128 years of Olympic history in 5 charts Using data from every Olympics, we’ve charted which sports have stood the test of time, the changing age of athletes – and whether hosting really gives your team an advantage. Getty Images July 21, 2024 The greenest games ever? How claims of Olympic sustainability hit a reef in Tahiti Hosting the Olympic surfing half a world away from the host city of Paris has highlighted just how hard it is for mega-events to be truly environmentally sustainable. Missouri History Museum July 21, 2024 Who were the first Africans at the Olympics? The disturbing story of two 1904 marathon runners Jan Mashiani and Len Tau apparently found themselves in the US in 1904 as part of a world’s fair displaying ‘savages’. MBI / Alamy Stock Photo July 18, 2024 Sharing that moment: can collective experiences bring people closer together? Podcast Pyschologist Garriy Shteynberg talks to The Conversation Weekly about his theory of the collective mind – and why you should think about it when watching the Olympics this summer. richardjohnson/Shutterstock July 18, 2024 From the Clyde to the Seine, rediscovering Glasgow’s history of urban swimming could help shape the future of swimmable cities Connecting the rich, and often unknown, histories of open swimming in urban waterways to the growing swimmable cities movement could help to shape the futures of urban swimming. Francois Mori/AP Photo, File July 18, 2024 Brand Olympics: do the famous rings deliver value to host countries? What makes the Olympics’ five rings such a powerful brand, and do they deliver value for host nations? Hiroto Sekiguchi/The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images July 18, 2024 Are running shoes getting too good? Why ‘technological doping’ is a growing concern for professional sports When tech makes an athlete perform beyond their natural ability, you might call that “technological doping”. How can we make it fair for everyone? Russell Cheyne/Getty Images July 17, 2024 Olympics: Senegal won silver in 1988 – why it’s never managed to repeat this feat For Olympic sports to thrive, the government must commit and find additional financing, notably through the private sector and sponsorship. [END] --- [1] Url: https://theconversation.com/europe/topics/2024-paris-olympics-97375 Published and (C) by The Conversation Content appears here under this condition or license: Creative Commons CC BY-ND 4.0. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/theconversation/