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🏆🏠 At the Intersection of #Sport and #Diplomacy: The Role of Olympic Houses   #OlympicHouses are temporary venues established by nations during the Olympic Games to celebrate their cultures and support their athletes. 🏅 First introduced during the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, these houses have become popular attractions, offering visitors a chance to experience diverse traditions in a festive atmosphere. #Paris2024 sees nearly 30 nations showcasing their cultural heritage in iconic locations around the capital, transforming the city into a veritable global crossroads of #cultures 🌍 Through these houses, nations aim to : 🔹Promote their #image: Olympic Houses project a modern, dynamic image of each country, such as South Korea's K-culture, the Czech Republic's modernity, and the UAE's crafts and gastronomy. 🔹Strengthen #diplomatic ties: They provide platforms for diplomatic and business meetings, facilitating strategic discussions and economic agreements. 🔹Attract #tourism and #investment: Highlighting cultural and tourism assets, these houses aim to convert visitors into future tourists and investors, like Brazil promoting São Paulo and Slovakia its cycling activities. 🔹#Communicate political messages: Some countries use these platforms for political communications, such as Ukraine highlighting its fight for freedom.   👉 These houses illustrate that, beyond the realm of sports, the #OlympicGames represent a platform for cultural and political diplomacy, where nations seek to capture attention and enhance their global image.

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Interesting perspective here

I've always found it odd to rank countries by the number of gold #medals, or even all medals, at the #Olympics. This method introduces a significant #bias towards larger countries that have dominated the rankings for decades. Le Monde proposes more interesting metrics, such as ranking countries based on the number of medals per capita or per GDP. These alternative pretty basic rankings provide a more accurate reflection of each country's investment in developing sports excellence. These also come with their own biases but at least bring more intriguing perspectives. (the article is in French but you should get the key messages by playing with the live tables)

tomorrow 14 september france will celebrate its olympic and paralympic athletes by having a parade of champions. as a follow-on, emmanuel wants the date, 14 sept, to become a national holiday where sport of all sorts are foregrounded and celebrated. he also wants to establish an order of (national) merit which is sport-centric, and emanates from the #paris2024 olympics and paralympics. further, he wants to create a parliamentary commission to analyse the heritage of the games; and to see how the myriad successes of the games can be translated into everyday best practice e.g. why is there a housing crisis when it is that accommodation for the games could be built so efficiently? https://lnkd.in/d-cKB5ed #france #sport #nationalholiday #proposal

A very good showcase of the French sports diplomacy in action. Probably one of the few strategic European ones at the moment propelled to the forefront in the lead up to the #Olympic and #Paralympic Games in Paris this summer among other. That said, we can unlock even further potential through looking at: - What role for the incredibly experienced human capital in the post Olympic cycle and how to transport its expertise beyond borders; - Is there a place for a new joint European effort and what form that could take in the near future; - What could be new ways of sport diplomacy in view of the very fast moving developments in other parts of the world, such as Middle East and Africa, Latin America’s return and very dynamic US cycle. #sportsdiplomacy #france #europe #middleeast #africa #global #olympics #humancapital

Here are some updates for those coming to France between June to October 2024

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🇫🇷 French Nationals are just around the corner! 🪂 We’ve already developed a reliable competition manager tool for indoor skydiving through Tunn3l, and it’s been great to see how it’s supported those events. But it begs the question… 🤔 Is it time we bring our competition management solutions to outdoor skydiving events as well? #Skydiving #CompetitionManager #Innovation #DropZone5 #Tunn3l #OutdoorSkydiving #NationalCompetitions

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