Christian Klaue
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Corporate Communications and Public Affairs Director of the IOC. Former employee of @DOSB and @SID_Sportnews . Views are my own, official updates @IOCMedia .
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When the moon kisses the Olympic Rings at the Eiffel Tower.
💙🖤❤️💛💚
Amazing images from
@gregmartin11
(Copyright) taken last night.
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#Paris2024
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#Exo
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Wann kriegst Du schon mal 7000 Retweets, 4000 Likes und kein Ende ist in Sicht? Ganz einfach: Wenn die Fans von
#Exo
Feuer und Flamme sind und die Jungs sich auf die Schlussfeier der
#Olympics
#PyeongChang2018
vorbereiten. Auf den Auftritt bin ich gespannt.
@weareoneEXO
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Over 5 billion people in the world will have access to the
#Olympics
#PyeongChang2018
TV coverage (96% of people with access to television), greater than any previous Winter Games (Sochi 4.4 bn).
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The IOC is confident that it will have finalised the scenario planning for the Olympic Games
#Tokyo2020
within the next 4 vweeks. - Cancellation of the Games would not solve any of the problems or help anybody. Therefore, cancellation is not on the agenda.
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Can't wait to see
#Exo
performing at the
#ClosingCeremony
. Only minutes away.
#Olympics
#PyeongChang2018
@weareoneEXO
You guys will rock the house.
Hello from backstage with the IOC President Thomas Bach!
#EXO
@weareoneEXO
#엑소
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🔹 In Brazil, the Women’s Football semi-final Brazil v. Spain delivered an audience of 15.44 million viewers. This audience is over 2 million higher than the top match from the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup.
➡️ Selected broadcast Audience & IOC Digital figures
#Paris2024
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🔹The Olympic Games Paris 2024 are a love story. Everyone is in love with them: the athletes, the French people and the fans all around the world are in love with the Games and with each other.
🔹In the venues, on the streets of Paris, at the Olympic village – you can feel and
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Fencing in the Grand Palais. Simply stunning.
A league of its own.
#Paris2024
#Olympics
📸
@gregmartin11
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Skateboarding, sport climbing, surfing and breaking were confirmed today as additional sports for the Olympic Games
#Paris2024
. They were proposed by the Organising Committee. Breaking will make its Olympic debut.
#IOCEB
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Very good to hear. Congrats to the team!
The
@Olympics
is the most effective Sports Organisation on Twitter -
@BCWGlobal
@BCWSport
#OlympicRanking
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🔸86% of French people consider the Olympic Ceremony successful.
🔸91% of French people approved the final torch bearers Teddy Riner and Marie-Josée Pérec.
🔸79% of French people are optimistic about the success of the organization of the Games.
➡️ These numbers are according
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📌 The success of Paris 2024 in spectator numbers:
➡️ More than 9.5 million tickets sold for the Olympic Games
🔹Spectators from 222 different countries
🔹62% French buyers, 38% international buyers
🔹Top 5: United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands
🔹Nearly
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🔸88% of people who followed the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony said they enjoyed it.
🔸76% stated that this was the most memorable Olympic Games Opening Ceremony ever.
🔸85% felt that the Opening Ceremony inspired them to follow the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
➡️ These numbers are
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In consultation with the outgoing IOC Athletes’ Commission Chair Kirsty Coventry, I have appointed Rugby player Humphrey Kayange
@HKayangeOGW
from Kenya to the IOC AC in order to have a better geographical balance. – IOC President Bach
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
@Athlete365
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Our Olympic mascots collection at home. It will soon have an addition to the family. My little Mademoiselle Ella and I can't wait to get to know the mascot of
#Paris2024
. It's coming tomorrow.
#RoadtoParis2024
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5⃣0⃣0⃣ days to go until we will have a stunning Olympic premiere: The Opening Ceremony of Paris 2024 on the river Seine.
The Olympic Games
#Paris2024
are coming.
#500DaysToGo
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Beijing is getting ready for the Olympic Winter Games
#Beijing2022
. The last preparations are underway, the first athletes are training. Only six days and 20 hours to go to the Opening Ceremony. Great images 📸 from
@gregmartin11
.
#StrongerTogether
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🔹All these achievements would not have been possible without an Organising Committee as a partner who fully shares all our values, our vision and our mission.
🔹Therefore, I cannot thank enough the Organising Committee under the great leadership of Tony Estanguet. It was great
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📌 What would the Olympic Games be without the 'Games Makers'? 45.000 volunteers (50% women, 50% men) made the Paris 2024 experience unique for everyone.
You were rock stars. Merci beaucoup!
#Paris2024
#Olympics
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This is how it feels after the closing... Relieved, overwhelmed and really tired.
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
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🔹The Olympic Games Paris 2024 have inspired us all and the world was following.
🔹We are still crunching the numbers, but we clearly expect the Olympic Games Paris 2024 to be the most followed ever.
🔹We are on track for more than half of the entire world population to follow
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Six new athlete representatives have been elected as IOC Members:
@astridjacobsen
@paugasol
@yuking1125
@mafaldina88
@MajaMTB
@HKayangeOGW
The new Chair of the IOC Athletes' Commission,
@ELaaksonen3
, has been elected to the IOC EB.
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
@Athlete365
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50 years Olympic Games Munich 1972. The legacy lives on. 79% of all the venues are still in use. Just this morning, the swimming pool in
@OLYMPIAPARK
was busy and the Olympic Stadium gets ready for the European Athletics Championships.
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Zu ehrendem Angedenken von S. Henze wird IOC morgen die dt. Fahnen in den olympischen Stätten auf Halbmast setzen.- T. Bach
@OlympiaMschaft
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As a mark of the IOC’s highest respect for the former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, who was shot yesterday, the Olympic flag is flown at half-mast at Olympic House in Lausanne for three days.
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📌 Incredible numbers! Around ONE MILLION people came to the streets to watch the two Olympic road cycling events events over the weekend in Paris.
#Olympics
#Paris2024
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Millions on the streets of Paris, full venues everywhere, an unrivalled atmosphere, at the swimming, at the rugby, at the sailing in Marseille, where I was yesterday, and in particular - of course - at the fencing.
You have never seen fencing until you have seen it in the Grand
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The Olympic Village in Zhangjiakou is getting ready for the pre-opening tomorrow. The Olympic Winter Games
#Beijing2022
are coming. Opening Ceremony: Friday, 4 February 2022
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One year from now, we will hopefully see each other in
#Tokyo2020
. We are
#StrongerTogether
.
#1YearToGo
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⏩Almost 49% of the athletes participating will be women
⏩ All 206 NOCs should have at least 1 female & 1 male athlete in their respective Olympic teams
⏩Flag can be carried by one female and one male athlete at the Opening Ceremony
#IWD2021
#Toyko2020
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📌 Behind the Scenes of the IOC Session: Return after 40 years, long Indian history in the Olympic Movement
🔹 As the IOC Session returns to India 40 years after it was last held here in 1983 - in New Delhi - the country can also look back at a long history in the Olympic
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Simply beautiful. The Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. Make sure you don't miss to visit the place which the
@HellenicOlympic
Committee takes so well care of.
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The Olympic Rings are back in in the water area off the shore of Odaiba Marine Park in Tokyo. Great to see! They underwent safety inspections and maintenance in anticipation of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
#Tokyo2020
. 📸
@Tokyo2020
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Four days to go until the Olympic Games
#Tokyo2020
. The autonomous buses in the Olympic Village are an attraction not just for my colleague
@gregmartin11
.
#StrongerTogether
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Together with its Japanese partners and friends the IOC is fully concentrated and committed to the successful delivery of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020 this year. - Says IOC after today's media report.
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India will host for the first time in history an
#IOCSession
. Today, Mumbai was chosen as host of the Session 2023 in the Jio World Centre. The event and related meetings will take place in May-June 2023.
#Olympics
#Beijing2022
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🔹France TV report an historic night for the Paris 2024 Closing Ceremony with an audience of 17M and a share of 77.3%.
🔹NBC report that US Men’s Basketball Team’s thrilling victory over France on NBC and Peacock is the most-watched Gold medal game since Atlanta 1996.
🔹NBC
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We received the very good news that the owners of the NBA teams have agreed with the players association on an early and shortened NBA season. This will allow the best basketball players of the world to play at the Olympic Games
#Tokyo2020
. - IOC President Bach
#IOCEB
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📌 Behind the Scenes of the IOC Session: Dhanyavaad India! Dhanyavaad Mumbai!
🔹 Do you know the feeling when an event has ended and you return later to the meeting room and suddenly its empty and nothing from the atmosphere is left? This is how it felt today when the 107 IOC
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An International Broadcasting Center for Olympic Games is always a showcase for innovation in the broadcasting industry. Firsts for
#Tokyo2020
: UHD HDR 5.1.4. immersive audio, biometric data, virtual 3D graphics, multi-camera replay systems, true view and others. You will see.
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Everything is in place for Paris 2024 to be Games of a new era.
-IOC President Thomas Bach
#Olympics
#Paris2024
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Seems like there is some misunderstanding here: Postponement is not cancellation. We say: "These scenarios relate to modifying existing operational plans for the Games to go ahead on 24 July 2020, and also for changes to the start date of the Games."
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Tokyo remains the best prepared Olympic city ever and at this moment, we have no reason to doubt that the Opening Ceremony will take place on 23rd of July. – IOC President Bach
#IOCSession
#Tokyo2020
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Tokyo 1964 were the first Olympic Games in color, now we are entering a new age:
➡️ Beijing 2008 was the first digital Games
➡️ London 2012 was the first social media Games
➡️
#Tokyo2020
is the first Streaming Olympic Games
Timo Lumme, Managing Director IOC TMS
#Olympics
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➡️ The IOC Members in one picture:
🔹 107 Members
🔹 41 Olympians
🔹 41.1 per cent women
🔹 57 years average age
#IOCMumbai2023
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Seems far away, but is actually very close. The Olympic Games
#Paris2024
are coming. 800 days to go countdown started a few minutes ago.
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Paris 2024 creates a magic that inspires the world.
The broadcast and digital figures go through the roof.
-IOC President Thomas Bach
#Olympics
#Paris2024
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The Main Media Centre for the Olympic Winter Games
#Beijing2022
is ready to welcome an international press corps of 2500 and thousands of staff members from the broadcasters and OBS.
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A special thanks goes to all the volunteers. Your smiles have warmed our hearts. A big thank you to all the volunteers! – IOC President Bach
#Tokyo2020
#Olympics
#ClosingCeremony
#StrongerTogether
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The triathlon was simply sensational – or should I say SEINE-sational.
-IOC President Thomas Bach
#Olympics
#Paris2024
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Leaving the backdrop of the office behind and entering the reality of Paris. Looking forward to unprecedented Olympic Games
#Paris2024
.
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📌 Olympic broadcasting advancing further: More than 200 Galaxy S24 Ultra smartphones from
@SamsungMobile
at each of the 85 boats carrying the athletes from the territories of 206 NOCs, will feed the broadcast from the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on the river
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This view is motivation for every single day in the next four weeks. Paris, here we go. Looking forward to Games wide open.
📸
@gregmartin11
#Paris2024
#Olympics
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🔹 Mascots are very popular in sport, in particular in the Olympic world. Here is some history from the Olympic Studies Centre:
🔸 The word mascot is derived from the Provencal and appeared in French dictionaries at the end of the 19th century.
🔸 “It caught on following the
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Omega, the Official Timekeeper at the Olympic Games, celebrated
#OneYearToGo
until
#Paris2024
by unveiling the official countdown clock at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. IOC Pt Bach & OCOG Pt
@TonyEstanguet
cut the ribbon with Raynald Aeschlimann, Pt and CEO of
@omegawatches
.
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📌 Behind the Scenes of the IOC Session: IOC President announces plans to create Olympic Esports Games
🔹 Stunning performances highlighted the opening of the 141stIOC Session tonight in Mumbai. It was a fascinating presentation of India’s culture and history (see pictures),
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The execution of wrestler Navid Afkari in Iran is very sad news. The IOC is shocked by this announcement today. In letters, Thomas Bach, the IOC President, had made direct personal appeals to the Supreme Leader and to the President of Iran (...) - Full IOC statement attached.
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"For the athletes, this moment is more than just being in top of a podium, it is the summit of a lifetime." -
#Tokyo2020
. The amazing podiums of the Olympic and Paralympic Games were unveiled just now.
#StrongerTogether
📸
@Tokyo2020
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➡️ Decision taken by the IOC Session.
🔹 Five additional sports have been added to the Olympic programme of the Olympic Games
@LA28
. They are:
🔸Baseball/softball
🔸Cricket (T20)
🔸Flag Football
🔸Lacrosse (sixes)
🔸Squash
#IOCMumbai2023
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Applaus from IOC Pres. Bach for
@RefugeesOlympic
Judo athlete Popole Misenga after his 1. round victory
#Rio2016
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Congratulations to the UNHCR
@Refugees
and
@FilippoGrandi
. The IOC awarded the Olympic Cup 2019 to the UNHCR for "celebrating the power of sport for refugees’ protection and well-being and advocating for the Olympic values".
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8500 athletes qualified for the Olympic Games
#Tokyo2020
. 17 sports/disciplines completed qualification. Only 4% of athletes still need to qualify until 29 June.
#IOCEB
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Getting a lot of questions right now to
@iocmedia
about the sustainable cardboard beds of the Olympic Village.
@McClenaghanRhys
put his to the test. Here we go.
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Olympic Summit expressed serious concerns over the growing politicisation of sport: "It prevents events including the Olympic Games or World Championships from realising their mission." - Full declaration of the Olympic Summit:
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📌 Welcome to the IOC Refugee Olympic Team
#Paris2024
🔹 36 athletes
🔹 from 11 different countries;
🔹 hosted by 15 National Olympic Committees (NOCs);
🔹 competing across 12 sports.
➡️ The sports are: Athletics, Badminton, Boxing, Breaking, Canoe, Cycling, Judo, Sport
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📌 Emotional firsts from Paris 2024:
➡️ 4 NOCs won their first Olympic Games gold medal:
🔹Botswana: Letsile Tebogo (photo) – athletics – men’s 200m
🔹Dominica: Thea LaFond – athletics – women’s triple jump
🔹Guatemala: Adriana Ruano Oliva – shooting – women’s trap
🔹Saint
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✅ IOC thanked the people of Tokyo and Japan today. Big crowds around the Olympic stadium for the sports initiation programme.
📸 Many pictures taken with
@Neeraj_chopra1
, one of the athletes taking part.
📺 Watch:
🔎 Read:
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1st of December - A Phryges Christmas tree made up of mascots is welcoming the visitors at the
#Paris2024
headquarters. Good luck for the last eight months until the Olympic and Paralympic Games
@Paris2024
.
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The athletes at the Olympic Games
#Tokyo2020
have elected Pau Gasol, Maja Martyna Wloszczowska, Federica Pellegrini and Yuko Ota to the IOC’s Athletes’ Commission, for a term ending at the Olympic Games LA 2028.
#Olympics
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🔹 Olympics social media gained an additional 1.5 million followers yesterday, bringing the total to 138 million followers.
🔹 Across 40 social media handles on 15 platforms, the Olympics have already generated 7.8B engagements for the Paris 2024 Games.
➡️ Selected broadcast
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The IOC calls on the governments of the world to include sport in their post-crisis support programmes because of the important social and health factor of sport and physical activity. -
@WHO
and IOC sign new MoU.
#WalktheTalk
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Only one more night until the Opening Ceremony. Get ready for the Olympic Games
#Paris2024
.
#Olympics
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It took us just 3 days to get agreement for the postponement of the Olympic Games and another 6 to announce a new date. That speaks for itself. - IOC President Bach explains the process which led to the postponement of
#Tokyo2020
in a long
@welt
interview.
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🔹NBC Universal
@NBCSportsPR
report that the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony on NBC and Peacock is the most watched since London 2012 with 28.6 million viewers – up 60% compared to Tokyo 2020.
🔹Through Friday 26th July streaming consumption on NBCUniversal platforms is up 6
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Beautiful, sustainable, open -
#OlympicHouse
, the new IOC headquarters in Lausanne, is a great place to work in. 500 of us settled in today.
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📌 Today, 161 years ago, Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, was born.
➡️ The Olympic Studies Centre has just published a new document about his life. 136 pages worth reading structured around seven main topics:
🔸Pierre de Coubertin's Life – Early
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There is no intention to reduce the number of media at the Olympic and Paralympic Games
#Tokyo2020
.
#Playbooks
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The Olympic Rings at Olympic House in Lausanne were powdered with snow today. Some winter days are ahead of us. Happy weekend.
📸
@gregmartin11
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The fully renovated International Olympic Academy
@IOA_Official
next to the site of Ancient Olympia will be inaugurated today. The modernisation work was made possible through an 12.5 million Euro investment of the IOC. Ceremony live at 3.30 pm CEST here:
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📌 Paris 2024 reached billions of people around the world thanks to new media rights agreements and the work of the Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) team led by
@YiannisExarchos
. The broadcast and digital numbers of Paris 2024:
🔹 36 Media Rights-Holders (including the
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12 days to go until the Olympic Games
#Tokyo2020
. Working hard with all the colleagues and friends from the IOC, the Organising Committee and many others to make it happen.
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⏩ The Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 is only days away. The excitement gripping this nation is palpable. As this unique festival of sport draws closer, we all are feeling that France and the French people are ready to welcome the world’s best athletes with the
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What brought
#Brisbane2032
over the edge was the passion and love for sports of the Aussies. The project is in line with the IOC reforms, a sustainable project in all respects. It will leave a legacy. - IOC President Bach.
#IOCSession
#Tokyo2020
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The Olympic Park in Beijing is getting ready for the Olympic Winter Games
#Beijing2022
. It is shining bright at night and during the day. Looking forward to the Opening Ceremony on 4 February 2022 at 8pm local time. -
#StrongerTogether
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🔹In China, as of Day 14 Paris 2024 is the most viewed Games since Beijing 2008 with 4.1 Billion hours viewed on CCTV linear channels, already surpassing the totals for Tokyo 2020 (3.8 Billion), Rio 2016 (4.0 Billion) and London 2012 (3.2 Billion).
🔹In the Middle East and North
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