Olympic bids for the 2026 Winter Games (2018)
« Turkey in the running to organise the 2026 Winter Olympics », RTS, Forum, 24 September 2018
Eric Bernaudeau, "2026 Olympics: five cities still in the running, first review in a month", AFP, 13 September 2018
Bertrand Monnard, "Sion 2026 poll", Le Matin, February 2018
The Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Games
Christine Ockrent, « The 2 Koreas and Moscow: Olympic Games and politics », France culture"Foreign Affairs", geopolitical magazine, 10 February 2018
Béatrice Ruhl et Benjamin Smadja, « The Olympic Games are no longer your dream », Radio Lac (Genève), 9 Fabruary 2018
Antoine Bellier, « Pyeongchang 2018. If you want the Games, prepare for peace » RCF, Le temps de le dire, 8 February 2018
Frédéric Carbonne, France Info, 8 Fabruary 2018, 23h10-23h30.
Marc Ventouillac, « JO 2018 Pyeongchang. Sept ans de réfection », L’Equipe, 8 Fabruary 2018
Patrick Clastres, published by Sébastien Billard, " Truce between the two Koreas: the Olympic Games have never been particularly conducive to peace », Nouvel Obs, 8 Fabruary 2018
Patrick Clastres, « Olympic truce and Realpolitik », Le Temps, 7 Fabruary 2018
Pauline Rappaz, RTS, Colour 3, Journal, 5 Fabruary 2018
Patrick Clastres with Jeannin Jérôme, « Sports sponsorship used as a diplomatic tool by the major powers », RTS, "Tout un monde," 29 January 2018
Eric Bernaudeau, « The Olympic Games in Korea: détente or lost cause? », AFP, 18 January 2018
Timothée Loubière, « Koreas: Realpolitik outweighs IOC diplomacy », Libération, 14 January 2018
Marguerite Lefebvre, « Sports naturalisations in Korea », Europe 1, 9 January 2018
Lionel Pittet et Simon Gabioud, « The sweet illusion of peace through sport », Le Temps, 9 January 2018
Clément Martel et Philippe Mesmer, « The Olympic Games of reconciliation between the two Koreas? », Le Monde, 5 January 2018
RTS, Le journal de 7h / La Matinale, « Pyeongchang 2018: Russia's fate in the hands of the IOC ", 5 December 2017
Tokyo 2021 Summer Olympics
Tristan Miquel, « Philosophy of the Olympic Games », RTS and TV5 Monde, Zoom Zen, 30 July 2021
« Why are there so few mixed events at the Olympic Games? », Mon quotidien, 29 July 2021
RFI, 7 billion neighbours, July 2021
Summer mornings, France culture, July 2021
Barbara Colpi, SRF, July 2021
Adrien Pécout, NOC and apolitism, Le Monde
Didrick Pomelle, Ouest-France, July 2021
Jamy blog, juin 2021
Patrick Clastres, France Info, 30 June 2020, "The IOC and the two Koreas"
Patrick Clastres, June 2020, L’Equipe, "Sport as a flag"
Eric Bernaudeau, AFP, June 2020, "The effects of postponing the Olympic Games"
Jean-Luc Ferré, La Croix, 15 June 2020
Patrick Clastres, « The Olympic Games, from the world of yesterday to the world of tomorrow », Mediapart, 24 April 2020
"The Olympic Games are not neutral", Libération, 17 April 2021
Gaétan Scherrer, L’Equipe, « Postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games: We're at a turning point », 26 March 2020
Sébastien Billard, L’Obs, « Postponement of the Olympic Games: This crisis reveals the power and, at the same time, the great fragility of the Games », 25 March, 2020
Sankei Shimbun
France TV Sport, "Coronavirus: why is the IOC keen to keep the Tokyo Olympics?", 21 March 2020
AFP, « The Olympic Games are no longer set in stone, barring world war », 21 March 2020
« L’organisation des Jeux olympiques de Tokyo en 2020 ne fait plus rêver » », RTS, Sport matin, 15 February 2017
The award in 2017 of the Summer Olympics to Paris for 2024
Florence Gault, Radio RCF, 11 April 2019
Corinne Boulloud, Europe 1, 16 November 2017, "The Olympic law, a law of exception"
William Audureau and Adrien Pécout, Le Monde, « Will e-sport become an Olympic discipline? », 7 November 2017
Adrien Pécout and Yann Bouchez, Le Monde, « Olympic Games 2024: the path to medals for French sport », 7 November 2017
Bertrand Monnard, "The Winter Games are disliked", Le Matin, 19 October 2017
RTS, TV programme « At the heart of sport », 1st October 2017
Lucia Müzzel, RFI Brazil and others countries, « Paris Olympics promises to invigorate France's poorest department », 14 September 2017
Gwenaëlle Coupez, France Bleu, 1h en France, « What remains of the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris? », 14 September 2017
Xavier Frère, « France is one of the three most sporting nations in the world », Le Républicain lorrain/Dauphiné libéré/EBRA presse, 13 and 14 September 2017
Sébastien Billard, Nouvel Obs, 13 September 2017
Jean-François Fournel, La Croix, « How to re-enchant the Olympic dream », 13 September 2017
Cécile Andrzejewski, « The Olympic law and the contours of this exceptional right », Mediapart, 13 September 2017
Christophe-Cécil Garnier, « Paris 2024: when did the French stop wanting the Olympics in their country? », Slate, 10 August 2017
"Paris is close to its Olympic dream", Sud-Ouest, 2 August 2017
Interview, « Paris 2024: the IOC acted in its own interests », Sud-Ouest, 1st August 2017
RTS, Le Journal de 7h (invité de la rédaction), « Is the Olympic dream being eroded? », 27 June 2017
UNIL L’ACTU, « Olympism in pictures », 23 June 2017
Sophie Tutkovics, L’Equipe, "Paris gets back into the game", 5 May 2017
Olympic bids, communication and democracy, Le Temps, 14 April 2017
Anthony Hernandez, "Who still wants the Olympics?", Le Monde, 4 March 2017
Caroline Andréani, Le Grand Soir, 18 July 2015, « Should we support Paris' bid for the 2024 Olympic Games? »
The Beijing 2022 Winter Games
RTS, guest on "La Matinale", 10 February 2022
RTS, Le 12.45 - Special page Beijing 2022, " Beijing Olympics 2022: diplomatic boycott", 4 February 2022
"China has a message to get across", Corse Matin, 4 February 2022
Massimo Solari, "Games without diplomacy, between tactics and repression", Corriere del Ticino, 3 February 2022
Baptiste Madinier, RCF (French-language Christian radio), February 2022
Marianne Skorpis, ARTE, February 2002
Cyrille Pluyette, L’Express, February 2022
Nina Soyez, « Through these games, China is speaking not to the world but to its own people », TV5 Monde, 28 January 2022
Charaf Abdessemed, "Beijing Olympics: Lausanne opts for the silence of the rings", Lausanne Cités, 26-27 January 2022
Mark Ionesco, « Boycotts at the Olympic Games », Marianne, 20-26 February 2022
Aude Lasjaunias, "Beijing's medal-winning strategy", Le Monde, 4 January 2022
Aude Lasjaunias, « Boycotting the Olympic Games, a weapon with limited effect », Le Monde, 4 January 2022
Paul Véronique, « Diplomatic boycott of the Olympic Games: will Europe dare offend Beijing? », L'Express, 10 December 2021
Alexis Favre, "Sport and politics: a wake-up call?", RTS, Infrarouge, 8 December 2021
« Always with your fist raised! », Stéphane Bern and Matthieu Noël, Europe 1, Historiquement vôtre, 1st December 2021
« Should we boycott the Olympic Games in Beijing and the World Cup in Qatar? », France TV5 Monde, journal TV, 64’ Grand Angle, 27 November 2021
"Should we boycott the Beijing Olympics?", La Croix, 23 November 2021
Géraldine Wong, Boycott Beijing 2022, Swissinfo.ch, November 2021
Antoine Chandellier, Le Dauphiné Libéré, October 2021
Patrick Clastres, "China has trapped itself by organising the Olympic Games", Watson, 17 April 2021
Youth Olympic Games (YOG)
Jérôme Jeannin, « Major sporting events in 2020: the YOG », RTS, « La Matinale », 27 December 2019
Jean-Luc Ferré, "The Youth Games are shaping the future of the Olympics", La Croix, 15 October 2018
Anthony Hernandez, Le Monde.fr, 12 Fabruary 2016, « The IOC evangelises youth at the 2016 YOG »
The Russian war in Ukraine and its consequences for international sport (since March 2022)
Jean Ammann, "The IOC is a colossus with feet of clay", La Tribune de Genève/24 Heures, 1st May 2022
Nicolas Lepeltier, Le Monde, 16-17 April 2022, "Moscow wants to redefine the geopolitics of sport"
Nicolas Lepeltier, "The IOC was afraid of seeing its sports system collapse (interview)", Le Monde, 16-17 April 2022
Marianne Meunier, La Croix Hebdo, 1st April 2022
Mathieu Aeschmann, Matin Dimanche, 13 March 2022
"A pragmatic decision" (interview), L’Equipe, 8 March 2022
Luca Mossi, Teleticino, ITW, 7 March 2022 (from 4'55 to 20'30)
Clément Martel, « The war in Ukraine catches up with the Paralympic Winter Games », Le Monde, 2 March 2022
Sébastien Schorderet, RTS website, "The Olympic order"
Jérôme Jeannin, "Olympic and Paralympic truces", RTS, 3 March 2022
« Russian and Belarusian athletes excluded from the Olympic Games », JT, RTS, 3 March 2022 (12:37)
Rebecca Garcia, "Russian sporting impunity undermined", 24 heures, 2 March 2022
La Croix
State Doping" in Russia (2016)
« Dopage: l’étau se resserre toujours plus autour de la Russie », RTS, Forum, 14 December 2016
« 2016 Olympics and doping: sport remains a key arena for rivalry between Russia and the United States », L’Obs Le Plus, 5 August 2016
"Russia in Olympic shape", Télérama, 3 August 2016, p. 7
« Why Russia has not been excluded from the Rio Olympics despite a system of state-sponsored doping », Telerama.fr, 26 July 2016
« Can the IOC exclude Russia from the Rio Games? No, the balance of world sport is too fragile », La Croix, 21 July 2016
Bettina De Guglielmo, Radios chrétiennes francophones, 19 July 2016, "The McLaren report on doping in Russia"
Zoé Decker, RTS, Forum, 18 July 2016, « The McLaren report on doping in Russia »
RTS, Journal du matin, 11July 2016, « State-sponsored doping in Russia »
« Muscle diplomacy », La Tribune de Genève, 3 June 2016
Arnaud Bevilacqua, La Croix, 3 June 2016, « The Olympic participation of Russian athletes in question »
Pierre Bienvault, La Croix, 13 May 2016, « Russia did not invent state-sponsored doping »
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Grégor Brandy, « 2024 Olympics: the cost of hosting the Olympic flame sparks controversy », Le Monde, 22 Fabruary 2022
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