Friidrottsförbund bryter OS-tradition – vinnare får halv miljon i bonus
Internationella friidrottsförbundet, IAAF, har beslutat att ge motsvarande en halv miljon kronor till de friidrottare som tar guld i någon av de 48 grenarna under OS i Paris, skriver The Guardian. Det är ett brott mot traditionerna i OS 128-åriga historia, där äran har ansetts vara belöning nog.
Förbundets ordförande Sebastian Coe säger i ett uttalande att beslutet syftar till att ”stärka idrottarna och erkänna den avgörande roll de spelar för att ett OS ska bli lyckat”.
Sommar-OS i Paris
Wikipedia (en)
The 2024 Summer Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques d'été de 2024), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad (French: Jeux de la XXXIIIe Olympiade) and commonly known as Paris 2024, is an upcoming international multi-sport event scheduled to take place from 26 July to 11 August 2024 in France, with Paris as the main host city and 16 other cities spread across metropolitan France, plus one subsite in Tahiti—an island within the French overseas country and overseas collectivity of French Polynesia.Paris was awarded the Games at the 131st IOC Session in Lima, Peru, on 13 September 2017. After multiple withdrawals that left only Paris and Los Angeles in contention, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) approved a process to concurrently award the 2024 and 2028 Summer Olympics to the two cities. Having previously hosted in 1900 and 1924, Paris will become the second city, after London (who were the hosts in 1908, 1948 and 2012) to host the Summer Olympics three times. Paris 2024 will mark the centenary of Paris 1924, and these Olympic Games will be the sixth hosted by France (three in summer and three in winter), and the first French Olympics since the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. Following Paris 2024, the Summer Games will return to the traditional four-year Olympiad cycle, as the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo was delayed by a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Paris 2024 will feature the debut of breaking (also known as breakdancing) as an Olympic event, and it will be the final Olympic Games held during the presidency of IOC President Thomas Bach. The Games will be the first to feature identical number of athletes between men and women. The Games are expected to cost €8.3 billion.
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