2024-07-15 17:49:54
In our news ticker you will find all the important news about the Olympic Games in France.
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Spanish tennis idol Rafael Nadal has started preparing for the Olympics 49 days after his French Open exit. At the ATP tournament in Bastad, Sweden, the 38-year-old gained match practice in doubles with top Norwegian player Casper Ruud. In his first round match in the singles competition, Nadal will play against Leo Borg, the son of Sweden’s five-time Wimbledon winner Björn Borg, for a place in the round of 16.
“I’m happy to be playing in Bastad again after almost 20 years,” said Nadal after the 6-1, 6-4 victory with Ruud against the number two seeded duo of Guido Andreozzi and the Mexican Miguel Reyes-Varela, and went on a mental journey through time 19 years after his singles title in Bastad: “I had three great years at this tournament until 2005.”
Clay court specialist Nadal lost his opening match at the French Open at the end of May to Alexander Zverev without winning a set. Since then, the former world number one has not played a match on the tour.
Basketball world champion and captain Dennis Schröder is about to take part in his first and possibly last Olympic Games. “I don’t know if I’ll still be there in four years,” said the 30-year-old. After the clear friendly win against the Netherlands on Saturday in Hamburg, the Braunschweig native hinted for the first time at a time frame for ending his career.
His contract with the Brooklyn Nets runs until summer 2025 – by then Schröder will soon be 32 years old. But first the Summer Games are coming up. “Actually, it’s always been a goal of mine to be at the Olympic Games. Nothing is guaranteed.” Schröder wants to take part in everything. “To be at the opening ceremony. That’s something I just want to see and experience with my family and my teammates. Then it starts, directly against Japan.”
The German women’s soccer team will receive fluffy support for their Olympic mission in France. In true style with a beret and a picnic basket that leaves room for the odd baguette, otter “Ottienne” will travel with the DFB entourage to Marseille and St. Étienne for the group phase – crocheted by winger Klara Bühl.
“The otter stands for solidarity,” said the national player: “What you make of the name, whether it is a play on words or not, that is up to you.” At the press conference before the Olympic dress rehearsal against Austria on Tuesday (from 7 p.m. in the t-online live ticker) in Hanover, Bühl unveiled the new DFB mascot for the Summer Games.
The FC Bayern offensive player had already crocheted a koala named “Waru” for the World Cup in Australia last year. At the time, the DFB women’s team had only moderate success: Germany was eliminated in the group stage. That should change with “Ottienne”.
Twelve days before the Summer Games in Paris, the Olympic flame has arrived in the French capital. The head of the French elite riding school Cadre Noir, Thibaut Vallette, received the flame at the end of the military parade for the national holiday on Sunday. The flame arrived in Marseille on May 8 and has since been carried throughout the country. Around five million spectators followed the traditional torch relay.