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Articles tagged with: Olympic Games

27 December 2021 07:41 PM

Redesigned Barcelona 1992 Olympic Games mascot, Cobi, by Javier Mariscal for Condé Nast Traveler magazine on 2022

Barcelona has a new Olympic Games mascot 30 years later

Original designer updates mascot in a special edition of 'Condé Nast Traveler' magazine

Life & Style

19 July 2021 07:04 PM

Catalan swimmer Mireia Belmonte biting her gold medal in 200m butterfly at Rio Olympics (by David Gray / Reuters)

125 Catalan athletes heading to Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics

Mireia Belmonte, Gasol brothers, Saúl Craviotto and waterpolo teams among medal hopefuls

Sports

29 April 2020 11:31 AM

Inside the Vila Mediterrània gym in Tarragona, image from 2018 (by Roger Segura)

Home workouts and staying motivated: challenges of lockdown for top level athletes

Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls confined at home look for space to train

Sports

24 March 2020 07:22 PM

Catalonia's secretary of sport, Gerard Figueras, appears in Parliament (by Miquel Codolar)

Catalan athletes need ‘equal conditions’ to train for suspended Olympic Games

Sports secretary agrees with one-year postponement of Tokyo 2020 as there’s no guarantee it will be safe by autumn

Sports

13 November 2018 02:39 PM

Kosovar athletes carry the national flag during the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics (by Reuters)

IOC to recommend not to hold international competitions in Spain over Kosovo athletes

Measure to be taken if Spanish government does not “guarantee access” for Balkan country sportspeople; winter games bid in Catalonia at stake

Politics

21 July 2017 09:06 PM

Olympic facilities in Barcelona

Barcelona 25 years on from 1992 Olympics: a city still glittering a little too much?

The main architect of the great transformation the city experienced a quarter of a century ago says opening up to the sea was the principal feat

Society

19 July 2017 09:24 PM

Volunteer in the Olympiad, Maria Salvo, together with Antoni and Alfons Cànovas, swimmers for the Barceloneta swimming club (by Helle Kettner)

Barcelona pays tribute to its Olympics that never took place

Outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 made it impossible for 5,000 athletes to take part in People’s Games planned for the city

Society

16 March 2017 06:43 PM

Barcelona's Deputy Mayor, Jaume Collboni, together with other members of the local government, announcing that Barcelona drops bid to host 2026 Winter Olympics (by ACN)

Barcelona drops bid to host 2026 Winter Olympics

Barcelona – The Pyrenees-based candidacy to host the 2026 Winter Olympics has been rescinded by its own promoters. According to Barcelona’s deputy mayor, Jordi Collboni, the decision responded “to the current social and...

Society

17 October 2016 07:26 PM

Cauldron used in Barcelona's Paralympic Games, in 1992 (by ACN)

30 years since Barcelona’s Olympic nomination

On a day like today, 30 years ago, Barcelona achieved its long-time dream to become the venue for the Olympic Games. It was 1.30 pm on Friday the 17th of October 1986 when the President of the International Olympic Committee, Juan...

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