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Dominica At The 2024 Summer Olympics
Dominica competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's eighth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics. Thea LaFond won the country's first, and to date, only medal—a gold in the Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's triple jump, women's triple jump on 3 August. Medalists Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games. Athletics Dominican track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each): ;Track and road events ;Field events Swimming For the first time since 2000 Summer Olympics, 2000, Dominica competed in swimming. Dominica received two universality quotas (one per gender). Qualifiers for the latter rounds (Q) of all events were decided on a time only basis, therefore positions shown are overa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominica Olympic Committee
The Dominica Olympic Committee (IOC code: DMA) is the National Olympic Committee representing Dominica. The committee is also the Commonwealth Games Association representing the island nation. History It was created in 1987 and recognized by the National Olympic Committee in 1993. National Olympic Committee. See also *Dominica at the Olympics
Dominica first competed at the Olympic Games in 1996, and has participated in each Games since then. Dominica has yet to win any medals at the Olympic Games.
The Dominica Olympic Committee was formed in 1993 and recognized in 1998, 20 years afte ...
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Athletics At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 Metres
Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run over a ten-day period at four different venues ( Pont d'Iéna for race walking, Hôtel de Ville and Les Invalides for the start and end points of the marathon races, and Stade de France for the track and field events) from 1 to 11 August 2024, featuring a total of 48 medal events across three distinct sets: track and field, road running, and racewalking. The competition will feature an identical number of medal events for men and women, the first instance in Olympic history. The Marathon Race Walking Mixed Relay through a Marathon course will contest for the first time at these Games, replacing the men's 50 kilometres race walk in the quest for gender equality. Another significant change to the athletics program is the repechage-round format in all individual track events from 200 to 1500 m and the hurdles events (110 m for men, 100 m for women, and 400 m for both), a vast opportunity for the runners to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nations At The 2024 Summer Olympics
A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a combination of shared features such as language, history, ethnicity, culture and/or society. A nation is thus the collective identity of a group of people understood as defined by those features. Some nations are equated with ethnic groups (see ethnic nationalism) and some are equated with affiliation to a social and political constitution (see civic nationalism and multiculturalism). A nation is generally more overtly political than an ethnic group. A nation has also been defined as a cultural-political community that has become conscious of its autonomy, unity and particular interests. The consensus among scholars is that nations are socially constructed and historically contingent. Throughout history, people have had an attachment to their kin group and traditions, territorial authorities and their homeland, but nationalism – the belief that state and nation should align as a nation state – did not bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dominica At The 2023 Pan American Games
Dominica competed at the 2023 Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile from October 20 to November 5, 2023. This was Dominica's 8th appearance at the Pan American Games, having competed at every edition of the Games since 1995. The Dominican team consisted of five athletes (four men and one woman) competing in two sports. Boxer Delroy Charles was the country's flagbearer during the opening ceremony. Meanwhile, track and field athletes Dennick Luke and Thea LaFond were the country's flagbearers during the closing ceremony. Dominica won one bronze medal, a bronze by Thea LaFond in the women's triple jump track and field event. Medalists The following Dominican competitors won medals at the games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded. Competitors The following is the list of number of competitors (per gender) participating at the games per sport/discipline. Athletics (track and field) Dominica qualified three athletes (two men and one woman). ;Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's 50 Metre Freestyle
The swimming competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run from 27 July to 9 August 2024. Pool events (27 July to 4 August) will occur at the Paris La Défense Arena, with the two-day marathon swimming (8 to 9 August) staged at Pont Alexandre III through the Seine River. Events Similar to the 2020 program format, swimming features a total of 37 events (18 each for men and women and 1 mixed event), including two 10 km open-water marathons. The following events were contested (all pool events are long-course, and distances are in meters unless stated): *Freestyle: 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1,500; *Backstroke: 100 and 200; *Breaststroke: 100 and 200; *Butterfly: 100 and 200; *Individual medley: 200 and 400; *Relays: 4 × 100 free, 4 × 200 free; 4 × 100 medley (men's, women's, and mixed) *Marathon: 10 kilometres Schedule The swimming program schedule for Paris 2024 will occur in two segments. For the pool events, similar to the case of London 2012, pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasmine Schofield
Jasmine ( taxonomic name: ''Jasminum''; , ) is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family (Oleaceae). It contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Eurasia, Africa, and Oceania. Jasmines are widely cultivated for the characteristic fragrance of their flowers. A number of unrelated plants contain the word "jasmine" in their common names (see Other plants called "jasmine"). Description Jasmine can be either deciduous (leaves falling in autumn) or evergreen (green all year round), and can be erect, spreading, or climbing shrubs and vines. Their leaves are borne in opposing or alternating arrangement and can be of simple, trifoliate, or pinnate formation. The flowers are typically around in diameter. They are white or yellow, although in rare instances they can be slightly reddish. The flowers are borne in cymose clusters with a minimum of three flowers, though they can also be solitary on the ends of branchlets. Each flower has about four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 Metre Freestyle
The swimming competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run from 27 July to 9 August 2024. Pool events (27 July to 4 August) will occur at the Paris La Défense Arena, with the two-day marathon swimming (8 to 9 August) staged at Pont Alexandre III through the Seine River. Events Similar to the 2020 program format, swimming features a total of 37 events (18 each for men and women and 1 mixed event), including two 10 km open-water marathons. The following events were contested (all pool events are long-course, and distances are in meters unless stated): *Freestyle: 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1,500; *Backstroke: 100 and 200; *Breaststroke: 100 and 200; *Butterfly: 100 and 200; *Individual medley: 200 and 400; *Relays: 4 × 100 free, 4 × 200 free; 4 × 100 medley (men's, women's, and mixed) *Marathon: 10 kilometres Schedule The swimming program schedule for Paris 2024 will occur in two segments. For the pool events, similar to the case of London 2012, pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Lawrence
Warren Adam Lawrence (born 14 May 2003) is a Dominican swimmer. He is the son of Dominica's first Olympic swimmer, Woodrow Lawrence, and qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Biography Lawrence was born on 14 May 2003. His father, Woodrow Lawrence, competed in swimming for Dominica at the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first time the country competed at the games. In 2019, Lawrence competed at the Swiss Summer Swimming National Championships in six events, including in several different styles: backstroke, butterfly stroke, freestyle and medley. In 2020, he participated at the 53th Challenge International Geneve in five events and later at the Swiss National Championships in six events. Lawrence's 2021 season included competing at the 38th International Hi-Point Meeting, the Swiss 25m National Championships, the Swiss 50m National Championships and the Swiss Summer National Championships. He participated at several Swiss championships in 2022 and also competed in a tournament in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 15 September to 1 October 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It marked the second time the Summer Olympics were held in Australia, and in the Southern Hemisphere, the first being in Melbourne, in 1956. Sydney was selected as the host city for the 2000 Games in 1993. Teams from 199 countries participated in the 2000 Games, which were the first to feature at least 300 events in its official sports programme. The Games' cost was estimated to be A$6.6 billion. These were the final Olympic Games under the IOC presidency of Juan Antonio Samaranch before the arrival of his successor Jacques Rogge. The 2000 Games were the last of the two consecutive Summer Olympics to be held in a predominantly English-speaking coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss Civil Code (articles 60–79). Founded by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas in 1894, it is the authority responsible for organising the modern (Summer, Winter, and Youth) Olympic Games. The IOC is the governing body of the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and of the worldwide "Olympic Movement", the IOC's term for all entities and individuals involved in the Olympic Games. As of 2020, there are 206 NOCs officially recognised by the IOC. The current president of the IOC is Thomas Bach. The stated mission of the IOC is to promote the Olympics throughout the world and to lead the Olympic Movement: *To encourage and support the organization, development, and coordination of sport and sports competitions; *To ensure the regu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2024 Summer Olympics
The swimming competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris are scheduled to run from 27 July to 9 August 2024. Pool events (27 July to 4 August) will occur at the Paris La Défense Arena, with the two-day marathon swimming (8 to 9 August) staged at Pont Alexandre III through the Seine River. Events Similar to the 2020 program format, swimming features a total of 37 events (18 each for men and women and 1 mixed event), including two 10 km open-water marathons. The following events were contested (all pool events are long-course, and distances are in meters unless stated): *Freestyle: 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, and 1,500; *Backstroke: 100 and 200; *Breaststroke: 100 and 200; *Butterfly: 100 and 200; *Individual medley: 200 and 400; *Relays: 4 × 100 free, 4 × 200 free; 4 × 100 medley (men's, women's, and mixed) *Marathon: 10 kilometres Schedule The swimming program schedule for Paris 2024 will occur in two segments. For the pool events, similar to the case of London 2012, pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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