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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

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Athletes of Team Palestine wave flags on the athletes' parade team boat along the River Seine during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on July 26, 2024 in Paris, France. (Michael Reaves / POOL / AFP)
July 28, 2024, 8:04 am
Palestinian Olympian wears shirt showing planes bombing children at opening ceremony
Shirt cleared with IOC despite political messages being banned from game events; meanwhile, Israeli athletes forbidden from wearing yellow ribbon for hostages
By AFP and ToI Staff
Jibril Rajoub, president of the Palestinian Football Association and the Palestine Olympic Committee, Palestinian Olympic athletes and members of the delegation arrive at Charles-de-Gaulle Airport, north of Paris, on July 25, 2024. (Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP)
July 25, 2024, 5:54 pm
Palestinian Olympic head decries IOC ‘double standards’ for letting Israel compete
Jibril Rajoub says Israel has no right to compete due to war in Gaza after Olympic committee rejects his request to ban Jewish state from Paris Games
By AFP and ToI Staff
International Olympic Committe (IOC) President Thomas Bach delivers a speech on the first day of the 142nd IOC Session, three days ahead of the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Paris on July 23, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP)
July 23, 2024, 10:55 pm
IOC president stresses neutrality after Palestinians request Olympic ban on Israel
French President Macron says Israeli athletes are ‘welcome’ in France, rejects calls to boycott Jewish state from Games
By AFP
People use their smartphones near the Olympic rings that are displayed on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, June 7, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)
July 5, 2024, 3:01 pm
Insurers fret over possible terror attacks, AI hacks at upcoming Paris Olympics
Israeli delegation to Games considered potential flashpoint due to tension over war in Gaza and general risk of Islamic terrorism
By Reuters
Israeli Olympians (from L to R) Shachar Sagiv, Lihie Raz and Tom Reuveny model the 2024 official uniform on June 3, 2024. (Oded Karni/Olympic Committee of Israel)
June 5, 2024, 10:17 pm
On complex world stage in Paris, Israel’s Olympians hope to stay focused on sport
Despite security threats and concerns over provocations, Israeli officials say goal is to bring home 4-5 medals at 2024 games, upping state grant to gold medalists to NIS 1 million
By Amy Spiro
IOC President Thomas Bach speaks during an interview with AFP ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne on April 26, 2024. (Gabriel Monnet/AFP)
April 27, 2024, 1:57 pm
Olympics chief says Palestinian athletes to compete in Paris even if they don’t qualify
International Olympics Committee head Thomas Bach says he expects delegation to number 6-8; dismisses comparisons between organization’s treatment of Russia, Israel
By AFP and ToI Staff
Youth gather at Paris City Hall where a Paris 2024 Olympic sign is displayed in Paris, March 5, 2024. (Michel Euler/AP)
March 6, 2024, 10:22 pm
Olympics chief: ‘No question’ Israel can compete in upcoming Paris games
Thomas Bach says Israeli team’s status not in question, after calls by pro-Palestinian activists and Russia to exclude Jewish state from July’s tournament over war in Gaza
By AP and ToI Staff
File: Gary Lineker, former English footballer turned sports TV presenter, gestures on stage with the Gerd Muller Trophy for best striker during the 2023 Ballon d'Or France Football award ceremony at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris on October 30, 2023. (FRANCK FIFE / AFP)
January 15, 2024, 1:34 pm
Top BBC presenter Gary Lineker urges boycott of Israeli sports, later deletes post
Former soccer star retweets, then removes, call by boycott group for FIFA and International Olympic Committee to bar Israeli athletes
By ToI Staff
Israel's first Olympic medalist and newly inducted International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Yael Arad speaks to the media at the end of the 141st International Olympic Committee (IOC) session in Mumbai on October 17, 2023. (Photo by INDRANIL MUKHERJEE / AFP)
October 17, 2023, 4:13 pm
‘It was very difficult’: Yael Arad departs war horrors to get Olympic honor in India
Israel’s first Olympic medalist becomes member of International Olympic Committee, says she wanted to attend to ‘build bridges’ despite losing relatives to Hamas’s terror onslaught
By AFP and ToI Staff
Iranian boxer Sadaf Khadem (L) is coached by combat organizer Mahyar Monshipour (R), an Iranian-born former super bantamweight world champion, during a match in Royan, western France, on April 13, 2019. Khadem now resides in France (MEHDI FEDOUACH / AFP / File)
September 13, 2023, 10:38 pm
Dissidents call to ban Iran from Olympics for discriminating against women
Nobel Prize winner and prominent former athletes who defected send letter to International Olympic Committee
By AFP
Yael Arad, the head of the Israeli Olympic Committee, during a press converence in Jerusalem, February 23, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 9, 2023, 2:50 am
International Olympic Committee selects Israel’s 1st medalist Yael Arad as member
1992 silver medalist in judo and head of Israel’s Olympic committee will become 2nd Israeli ever on international board after confirmation next month
By ToI Staff and AP
Fireworks at Qatar's Lusail Stadium, as Argentina's players (center) attend the 2022 World Cup trophy ceremony after their victory over France in the final match in Lusail, north of Doha on December 18, 2022. (Odd Andersen/AFP)
December 19, 2022, 5:40 pm
Qatar to bid for Olympics on heels of World Cup tainted by poor rights record
Seeking to become global sports hub, Gulf country to host several other major events in coming years, but real prize coveted by Doha is the 2036 summer Games
By Raphaelle PELTIER and Tim Witcher
A 2009 portrait of Alex Gilady (Abir Sultan/Flash 90)
April 14, 2022, 2:47 am
Former Israeli TV executive and Olympic official Alex Gilady dies at 79
Gilady headed Keshet Media Group until stepping aside in 2017 after sexual harassment allegations
By ToI Staff
In this file photo from February 15, 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and IOC President Thomas Bach meet in the Bolshoi Ice Dome in Sochi, Russia. (RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service via AP, File)
February 28, 2022, 6:40 pm
Olympic committee calls to bar Russia from international sports over Ukraine assault
Move paves way for FIFA to exclude the Russian national soccer team from World Cup qualifiers; IOC also urges ban be applied to Belarusian officials and athletes
By Graham Dunbar
Ambassadors gather at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on February 24, 2022, ahead of a debate on the situation in Ukraine after Russia launched an invasion. (Patrick Hertzog/AFP)
February 25, 2022, 7:35 pm
Russia ejected from rights body, loses sports hosting roles, ousted from Eurovision
Council of Europe suspends all representatives of Russia, as International Olympic Committee urges sports federations to move events out of Russia and Belarus
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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