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The Paris 2024 Olympic Games were set to be the hottest on record, an increase on the previous Games in Tokyo, during which athletes had already expressed health concerns. In June 2024, a report titled "Rings of Fire: Heat Risks at the 2024 Paris Olympics" documented concerns, and the IOC proposed mitigation measures.
FIFA World Cup referee Lu Jun, and China national football team players Shen Si, Jiang Jin, Qi Hong, Li Ming, were sentenced to 5.5 years or 6 years in jail. In June 2011, trials started for people allegedly involved in fixing Finnish football matches.
In 1972, during the Munich Olympics, the Palestinian terrorist organisation Black September killed 11 members of the Israeli team. The 11 Israeli Olympic Team members who were murdered in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich are: Mark Slavin, 18, wrestler; Eliezer Halfin, 24, wrestler; David Mark Berger, 28, weightlifter; Ze'ev Friedman, 28 ...
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Finland at the 2024 Summer Olympics; IOC code: FIN: NOC: Finnish Olympic Committee: Website: olympiakomitea.fi (in Finnish and Swedish) in Paris, France 26 July 2024 () – 11 August 2024 () Competitors: 56 (23 men and 33 women) in 13 sports: Flag bearer (opening) Eetu Kallioinen & Sinem Kurtbay: Flag bearer (closing) Saga Vanninen: Medals: Gold
Kirsi Heikkinen (née Savolainen, born in Espoo, 26 September 1978) is a Finnish women's football referee.She has taken part in the 2009 European Championship, the 2011 World Cup and the 2012 Summer Olympics, and she refereed the final of the 2010 Champions League, the 2010 U–17 World Cup and the 2010 Algarve Cup.
The first substitution made in the Olympics men's soccer semifinal match between Morocco and Spain on Monday was the referee. The ref, Ilgiz Tantashev of Uzbekistan, limped off the field 15 ...
Charlton placed sixth at the 2021 Olympics in the 100-meter hurdles. She's currently the world record holder in the 60-meter hurdles. Charlton ran for the Boilermakers from 2014-17.