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As Russia cannot compete at the Olympic Games under the Russian flag, the Kremin is organising its own competition: the World Friendship Games 2024, to be held in September in Moscow and Yekaterinburg. A chance to look at the geopolitics of international sport.

Geopolitics of the Olympic Games

As Russia cannot compete at the Olympic Games under the Russian flag, the Kremin is organising its own competition: the World Friendship Games.

Mapping the World Essentials

In a video posted on social media in February 2023 by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence, a Russian athlete launches a javelin which transforms into a missile. Three other clips were created at the same time urging the international community to boycott Russian sport. 

Ukraine: Olympic boycott on Social Media

Focus on the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence's social media campaign urging the international community to boycott Russia.

The World in Images

The 1968 Olympic Games were marked by a powerful image: Tommie Smith and John Carlos, two black athletes raised their fists in protest against the oppression of African-Americans in the United States. More than fifty years later, the gesture of the raised fist has been taken up by the Black Lives Matter movement. But where does the raised fist originate?

Black Lives Matter

The raised fist has become associated with Black Lives matter movement, but where did it originate?

I Saw the Sign

If a woman gave birth at the top of Mont Blanc, what nationality would the child be? For France, of course, the baby would be French. But not for Italy! The quarrel has been going on since 1860, when the divison of territory at the top of the mountain was unclearly defined... leaving each country to interpret the boundary more or less as they saw fit. This really is a case for Crazy Borders!

Mont Blanc: A High Altitude Dispute

If a woman gave birth at the top of Mont Blanc, what nationality would the child be?

Crazy Borders

Sakura dreams of fighting sumo professionally. But for her, that's off the table: female sumo wrestlers don't exist. There are no adult women's clubs and once she's left school, that will be it for the sport that has given her purpose and joy. But that might be about to change; for sumo to be an Olympic sport, it can't discriminate against women.

Japan: Women in Sumo

Sakura dreams of fighting sumo professionally. But for her, that's off the table: female sumo wrestlers don't exist.

ARTE Reportage

In Kabul, Masomah Alizada was part of the women's cycling team. Threatened by the Taliban, her family had to leave Afghanistan and have been living as refugees in France for four years. But her cycling dreams aren't over.

Afghanistan: The Olympic Dream

Masomah Alizada had to flee Afghanistan after she was threatened by the Taliban for being part of a women's cycling team

A coming together of nations in peaceful competition, respect and harmony? Or a ruthless geopolitical tussle for the top spot where doping becomes the norm? A history of the Olympic games in 5 minutes.

The Olympic Games

A coming together of nations in peaceful competition, respect and harmony? Or a ruthless geopolitical tussle for the top spot where doping becomes the norm? 

Stories of Conflict

Can a state in the EU prohibit women from accessing its territory? In the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos women are not allowed in - even tourists - and any woman who enters could be arrested by police. It's a peninsula from another, bygone world and yet benefits from taxpayer funding (including female taxpayers, presumably...).

Mount Athos: Off Limits for Women

Can a state in the EU prohibit women from accessing its territory?

Viollet-le-Duc oversaw the renovation of Paris' Notre Dame cathedral in 1843. But that was barely scratching the surface of what he wanted to do: he was convinced he could restore Mont Blanc just as he would a building, and even published a book on his plans. Was he an ecologist ahead of his time or an artist detached from reality? 

The Man Who Wanted to Renovate Mont Blanc

Viollet-le-Duc oversaw the renovation of Paris' Notre Dame cathedral in 1843. But he had even bigger plans: next stop, Mont Blanc.

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Mapping the World Essentials

Geopolitics of the Olympic Games

The World in Images

Ukraine: Olympic boycott on Social Media

I Saw the Sign

Black Lives Matter

Crazy Borders

Mont Blanc: A High Altitude Dispute

ARTE Reportage

Japan: Women in Sumo

ARTE Reportage

Afghanistan: The Olympic Dream

Stories of Conflict

The Olympic Games

Crazy Borders

Mount Athos: Off Limits for Women

Gymnastics

The Man Who Wanted to Renovate Mont Blanc