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Palestinian Olympic team

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
Palestinian swimmer Yazan Al Bawwab reacts during the men's 100m freestyle heats at the World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Wednesday, July 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
July 20, 2024, 9:51 pm
In shadow of war, Palestinian Olympic delegation ready to compete
Six Palestinian athletes — competing in judo, taekwondo, boxing, swimming and shooting — say just being at the Paris games is a victory
By Reuters
Portraits of the victims are displayed at the end of a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian Black September terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics, at the Fuerstenfeldbruck Air Base, southern Germany, on September 5, 2022. (Thomas KIENZLE / AFP)
July 14, 2024, 11:11 pm
Paris memorial for 1972 Olympics massacre to be held in secret over threats – report
Israel Olympic Committee says decision to relocate and postpone Paris City Hall event due to logistics; Palestinian Authority minister tells athletes to bring ‘resistance’ to Games
By AFP and ToI Staff
Image of two Palestinian Olympic athletes. On the right is Mayada Al-Saya, 23 years old, who will be the first Palestinian athlete to run in the 42 km Olympic marathon. She was born, raised and lives in Germany. On the left is Palestinian Olympic swimmer Mary al-Atrash, a native of Bethlehem. (Courtesy: screenshots)
August 2, 2016, 12:35 am
Palestinians send 6 athletes to Rio — half of them Germans
No Palestinian athlete has ever made the Olympic medalists’ podium. Don’t bet on that changing in Brazil
By Dov Lieber
Palestinian Olympic marathoner Nader Masri. (photo credit: image capture YouTube)
April 8, 2014, 2:34 pm
Gaza Olympian barred from West Bank marathon
Court backs IDF ban on Nader Masri’s participation in Bethlehem race, but says travel restrictions should be eased
By AP
Palestinian athlete Baha Alfarra, who will compete the 400-meter Olympic race trains at a gym in Gaza City in March 2012 (photo credit: AP/Adel Hana)
July 20, 2012, 5:01 pm
Palestinians go to Olympics to highlight national pride… and the conflict
Fledgling delegation rejected cooperation offer from Israel
By Ben Sales
Before: Jerusalem was the capital of 'Palestine' according to the Olympic profile (screen capture from London 2012.com)
April 30, 2012, 11:30 am
London Olympic website removes Jerusalem from ‘Palestine,’ gives it to Israel
Official site had earlier designated the city as capital of ‘Palestine’ and left Israel with no seat of power
By Aaron Kalman
Illustrative image of Palestinian Red Crescent workers (Nati Shohat /Flash90)
April 2, 2012, 3:49 pm
Palestinian Olympic goalie, Red Crescent staffers held for West Bank shooting
13 people allegedly planned further attacks on Israeli targets
By Hillary Zaken
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