Archive for Grand Palais
Ocean’s 59 [blue wave#13]
Posted in pictures, Running with tags elimination, France, Grand Palais, half-marathon, Invalides, L'Équipe, marathon, Murcia, Paris, Paris 2024 Paralympics, road race, Rosario Murcia Gangloff on September 14, 2024 by xi'an
Paralympiques au Grand Palais
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags air conditioning, bronze, Champs-Elysées, Communist Party of China, gold medal, Grand Palais, gwenn ha du, K44, obscurantism, Paris, Paris 2024 Olympics, Paris 2024 Paralympics, Péru, PRC, refugees, Refugees Team, repêchage, Rio 2016, Seine, taekwondo, Taipei, Taiwan, taliban, theocracy, Tokyo 2021 Olympics, Zakia Khudadadi on September 1, 2024 by xi'an
While we did not try to attend any of the Paris 2024 Olympics events, primarily for being in the Pacific Northwest during the Olympics (in not in Olympic National Park!), being back in Paris and tickets being widely available and looking forward attending an event in the Grand Palais, we found tickets for the taekwondo K44 finals, in the light(er than me) categories. With no prior exposure to taekwondo.
The location was fabulous, indeed, with a full stadium built inside and surprisingly good views from the back seats. (And too much air conditioning!) The rounds were also most interesting, with a wide range of fighting styles, if not always exciting as some ended up with very few points and a lot of referees’ paste&cuts of glued opponents. As in fencing, it was also difficult to understand why some punches scored and others did not. Two games ended up with the judges’ ruling, one rather clearly picking the dominant fighter (but with the looser refusing to shake hands with the winner!), and the other much less so. The only remaining French athlete was badly injured and got eliminated in the first round.
Another great moment was the bronze medal of Zakia Khudadadi, part of the Refugee Paralympics Team, who is an Afghan athlete evacuated to France when the Taliban took power in 2021. She had already competed at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, a week after her escape from Hell. (Her coach seen carrying her on the picture is Rio 2016 silver medallist Haby Niare from France.) She joins female boxer Cindy Ngamba who won the first-ever medal for the Olympic Refugee Team a few weeks earlier.
The medal ceremony was somewhat low key (esp. from the back seats) but I discovered there taekwondo rules produce two bronze medals, one coming from repêchages. And heard the Peruvian anthem for the first time, thanks to the victory of (Tokyo gold medallist) Leonor Angelica Espinoza Carranza. All in all, this was a great afternoon at the Paralympics, with an unexpectedly efficient organisation, no queues!, cheerful volunteers all over and rather laid-back police officers (in large numbers).
taekwond’or [blue wave#11]
Posted in Kids, pictures, Running, Travel with tags bouldering, climbing wall, competition, France, gold medal, Grand Palais, handball, Paris, Paris 2024 Olympics, Paris 2024 Paralympics, Slovenia, taekwondo, volley, volleyball on August 12, 2024 by xi'an
sabres bleues [blue wave#4]
Posted in pictures with tags fencing, France, gold medal, Grand Palais, Korean food, Paris 2024 Olympics, Russian invasion, sabre, silver medal, Solidarity with Ukraine, Ukraine on August 1, 2024 by xi'an
24 PhD fellowships in Mathematical Sciences partly in Paris
Posted in Kids, Travel, University life with tags Île-de-France, Centre for Doctoral Training in Mathematics and Statistics, COFUND, Grand Palais, Invalides, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, MathPhDInFrance, Paris, PhD fellowship, PhD scholarship, PhD thesis on January 10, 2024 by xi'an
Twenty-four PhD fellowships (“International Doctoral Training in Mathematical Sciences in France – MathPhDInFrance” co-funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – HORIZON-MSCA-2022- COFUND) are available for the next academic year for a co-supervision between a laboratory in the Greater Paris region and another one in another French region. The applicants cannot have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, &c.) in France for more than 12 months in the three years immediately before the deadline of the call (i.e. between February 14th, 2021 and February 14th, 2024). They must be doctoral candidates, i.e. not yet awarded a doctoral degree by the deadline. Moreover, they must have a Master’s degree or an equivalent diploma at the time of their enrolment to PhD, in any domain of research in pure & applied mathematics, or theoretical computer science. The deadline is 14 February 2024 and applications do not require a confirmed supervisor at that time. (Obviously, feel free to contact me if interested.)
