On the eve of the opening rite of the Olympic Games, Emmanuel Macron will chair the “Sport for Sustainable Development” summit, which will take place from 5:00 p. m. to 6:30 p. m. on Thursday, July 25 in the Louvre Carousel rooms. The summit, organized in collaboration with the International Olympic Committee, will bring together more than five hundred participants, including heads of state, heads of foreign organizations and athletes.
These actors will be invited to submit their projects for play and sustainable progress and to make commitments in five areas: education and employment, fitness and nutrition, equality and inclusion, financing and impact on measurement, sustainability and legacy.
This Thursday, July 25, a few hours before the start of the Paris Games, a gala dinner will be organized at the Louvre. A hundred heads of state and personalities will be invited to this occasion, orchestrated by chef Alain Ducasse’s groups.
The “Holy Games” program will begin and end on August 11. This event, on the sidelines of the Olympic Games and under the auspices of the Episcopal Conference of France, aims to highlight the link between the values of the game and the Christian faith. .
On the program: guided visits to some 40 Parisian churches, a dining room, concerts, religious accompaniment to athletes and attention to others on the street. About 250 young people and 40 clergy will be mobilized for the occasion.
The commission of inquiry into public policies relating to foreign influence operations will deliver its conclusions tomorrow. In recent years, France has been the subject of a war over information manipulation.
These attacks have increased tenfold thanks to new tools such as the use of cyberspace and synthetic intelligence, equipment used specifically through Russia. According to the Senate website, this commission aims to “make a map of existing and long-term threats, make an inventory of public counterinfluence policies and identify, within the framework of prospective and anticipated work, avenues for recommendations. »
The oldest French Olympic champion carried the Olympic flame to Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, on Wednesday, July 24. The centenarian Charles Coste won the gold medal in the cycling pursuit at the 1948 London Olympics. This name earned him a reception at the Elysee Palace. through President Vicente Auriol.