IN PICTURES – As the Paris Olympics begin on July 26, we look back at the couples who formed or met during the Games.
For a month, thousands of athletes live in isolation, protected from the noise of the world. Therefore, the Olympic Games become a meeting place where friendships and, even more, kinship are formed. The Olympic Village, a true city within a city, encourages these adventures with its large halls where sportsmen and women of all nationalities and backgrounds meet. As a good French, an image arises when we mention this topic. Character Tony Yoka and Estelle Moseley, who won two boxing gold medals at the Rio 2016 Olympics, met this August before marrying a year later and having a baby in 2018. But there were others.
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Less famous (to us French anyway) like Australian Sam Willoughby and American Alise Post, BMX athletes or rowers Katelyn Snyder and Narek Guregyan. There were also pioneers: Czechoslovaks Dana Zatopkova, javelin gold medalist, and Emil Zatopek, a three-time Olympic sprint champion; or pioneers Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh, married in 2014, who also won a gold medal in ice hockey at the Rio Olympics in 2016.
Source: Le Figaro
