http://www.mail.com/int/organizations/19750-france-olympic-team.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/int/organizations/19750-france-olympic-team.html http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2046204-olympic-year-half-battle-keeping-fit.html POISSY, France (AP) — A luxury sports car, it turns out, is a very appropriate place to interview an Olympian about how he injured his back. Because the contrast between the two is so compelling. Muscular, comfortable and responsive, the car is everything a bad back is not. This car, a black and beautiful Italian-made Maserati, and the stiff and aching ba... Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:39:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2046204-olympic-year-half-battle-keeping-fit.html 2013-04-26T08:39:47Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2013296-murofushi-challenges-ioc-election-bar-cas.html LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Former Olympic champion Koji Murofushi left sport's highest court on Thursday after a two-day hearing to challenge his disqualification at the London Games from an athletes' election choosing IOC members. Murofushi was barred by the IOC for excessive campaigning days after adding a bronze medal in the hammer throw to the gold ... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:56:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/2013296-murofushi-challenges-ioc-election-bar-cas.html 2013-04-11T15:56:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/1956894-cas-upholds-disqualification-ioc-athletes-vote.html LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — A Taiwanese taekwondo fighter lost his appeal Friday against the IOC decision to bar him from election to its athletes' commission for breaking campaign rules. The Court of Arbitration for Sport found Chu Mu-yen guilty of "several violations" of the rules and upheld the IOC executive board's decision to disqualify him from tak... Fri, 15 Mar 2013 12:24:29 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/1956894-cas-upholds-disqualification-ioc-athletes-vote.html 2013-03-15T12:24:29Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/tennis/1899022-column-judos-giant-teddy-life-lonely-top.html PARIS (AP) — Roger Federer has Rafael Nadal, the Yankees have the Red Sox, Ferrari has McLaren, but Teddy Riner is all alone. In his sport, judo, the Olympic champion with a physique like Shaquille O'Neal's and first name borrowed from his older brother's teddy bear has few rivals to really trouble him. The heavyweight from France was so invincible at the... Mon, 18 Feb 2013 13:15:27 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/tennis/1899022-column-judos-giant-teddy-life-lonely-top.html 2013-02-18T13:15:27Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/1886460-body-slam-wrestling-sport-cut-olympics.html LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — For wrestling, this may have been the ultimate body slam: getting tossed out of the Olympic rings. The vote Tuesday by the IOC's executive board stunned the world's wrestlers, who see their sport as popular in many countries and steeped in history as old as the Olympics themselves. While wrestling will be included at the 2016 ... Wed, 13 Feb 2013 04:58:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/1886460-body-slam-wrestling-sport-cut-olympics.html 2013-02-13T04:58:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/1886404-wrestling-body-reacts-to-olympic-rejection.html LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Wrestling officials called Tuesday's decision to drop the sport from the Olympic program an "aberration" against a founding event. Known by its French initials FILA, the sport's governing body said it was "greatly astonished" by the IOC executive board decision. Past and present Olympic champions in Greco-Roman and freestyle w... Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/1886404-wrestling-body-reacts-to-olympic-rejection.html 2013-02-12T16:37:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/1885544-ioc-drops-wrestling-2020-olympics.html LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — IOC leaders dropped wrestling from the Olympic program on Tuesday, a surprise decision that removes one of the oldest Olympic sports from the 2020 Games. The IOC executive board decided to retain modern pentathlon — the event considered most at risk — and remove wrestling instead from its list of 25 "core sports." The IOC boar... Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:02:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/1885544-ioc-drops-wrestling-2020-olympics.html 2013-02-12T12:02:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/1881240-frances-rolland-wins-womens-downhill-world-title.html SCHLADMING, Austria (AP) — Marion Rolland of France beat all the favorites to win the world downhill title on Sunday, mastering an icy course that left most of her rivals struggling to find the right race line. Rolland, who has yet to win a World Cup race after 15 top-10 finishes in downhill, earned her first medal at a major championship after charging d... Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/1881240-frances-rolland-wins-womens-downhill-world-title.html 2013-02-10T13:16:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/1877882-ioc-to-drop-1-sport-modern-pentathlon-hot-seat.html LONDON (AP) — Removing a sport from the Olympics is one of the IOC's most sensitive tasks. After months of evaluation, a decision will come next week — and the century-old competition of modern pentathlon appears the most at risk. The IOC executive board will meet in Lausanne, Switzerland, and announce Tuesday which of the current 26 sports on the Olympic... Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/other/1877882-ioc-to-drop-1-sport-modern-pentathlon-hot-seat.html 2013-02-08T16:24:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/1857224-pregnant-laure-manaudou-retires-2nd-time.html PARIS (AP) — Former Olympic swimming champion Laure Manaudou says she is quitting for good after announcing her retirement for the second time on Wednesday. Manaudou, who won France's first swimming gold in 52 years at the 2004 Athens Olympics, retired in September 2009 following her poor showing at the 2008 Beijing Games. The 26-year-old says "I'm stoppi... Wed, 30 Jan 2013 19:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/entertainment/celebrity/1857224-pregnant-laure-manaudou-retires-2nd-time.html 2013-01-30T19:16:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/1845798-uefa-to-choose-13-cities-euro-2020-hosts.html NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Thirteen countries will host the 2020 European Championship, UEFA decided Friday, with each host providing a single stadium for the 24-team tournament. In an effort to encourage smaller countries to join the project, the UEFA executive committee pledged to choose two stadiums holding as few as 30,000 spectators. Other stadiums mus... Fri, 25 Jan 2013 16:14:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/sports/soccer/1845798-uefa-to-choose-13-cities-euro-2020-hosts.html 2013-01-25T16:14:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1766678-famed-french-mountaineer-maurice-herzog-dies-93.html PARIS (AP) — France loved him for his indefatigable, pioneering spirit — the first man to climb an 8,000-meter Himalayan peak despite losing all his fingers and toes to frostbite, a man who later went on to scale the heights of French politics. Six decades after his 1950 Annapurna climb made Maurice Herzog a household name, the famed French mountaineer di... Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:30:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/1766678-famed-french-mountaineer-maurice-herzog-dies-93.html 2012-12-14T18:30:00Z http://www.mail.com/int/news/uk/1725476-ben-ainslie-retires-olympic-sailing.html Four-time gold medalist Ben Ainslie of Britain says he is retiring from Olympic sailing in order to try and end his nation's long drought in the America's Cup. Ainslie's decision wasn't a surprise. While he said he wanted to take some time after winning the gold medal in the Finn class at the London Olympics, he's already sailed in two America's Cup World... Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:23:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/int/news/uk/1725476-ben-ainslie-retires-olympic-sailing.html 2012-11-27T08:23:00Z