Highlighting Franco-American relations via sports & #sportsdiplomacy #FranceAndUS. Director @lempika7
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📣A (re)introduction to FranceAndUS, an education & information project to highlight 🇫🇷🇺🇲 ties & transatlantic #sportsdiplomacy directed by @lempika7 w/contributors from scholars, athletes, diplomats, sports stakeholders past, present & #nextgen 🧵👇
franceussports.com/
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🏀🇫🇷Les Bleues Key Idea 1️⃣
Women’s hoops in France has a long history.
Frenchwoman Alice Miliat, sports pioneer and “the apostle of women’s basketball,” helped basketball gain traction by the 1910s w/1st French championship in early 1920s.
See @QiBasket qibasket.net/2020/02/04/lhis…
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Les Bleues’ #FIBAWWC roster features 8️⃣ current clutch #WNBA players justwomenssports.com/reads/2…
Learn more about FIBA’s #2 ranked team before first tip Friday this week as I share 5️⃣key ideas from #BasketballEmpire, @FranceAndUS & forthcoming work to contextualize Les Bleues 😉
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Mathis Nayral becomes the 2nd pitcher from the French National team to become part of the Blue Jays family. The first never threw a pitch. I worked for the Jays in Dunedin 1990-93 @JonathanMayo @INTLBaseball24 @thefrilledshark @BlueJays @ffbs_baseball @FranceAndUS @michaelsclair
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🏀 One year ago, Steph Curry broke my heart in the City of Light🥹
France was 3pts behind Team USA with 3 mins left in the #Paris2024 Olympic final.
Then Curry unfurled a series of 3⃣pt shots that put to bed French hopes for a victory on home soil
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Learn more about Ambassador @DucroquetSamuel and his #sportsdiplomacy work
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@GUDiplomacy @lempika7 @drjsimonrofe @GavinMPrice @DrSepinwall
Excited to fly to Washington DC today for a few days of enthusiastic discussions.
On the menu :
☑️Consultations with representatives of the Department of State and Congress on our bilateral cooperation
☑️Exchanges with members of the american sports movement 🥎🏀🏈…
☑️Talks with #TeamFrance about our collective preparation for the upcoming mega sporting events in the 🇺🇸
☑️Discussions with academics, non profit organizations, and other members of the civil society on the legacy of #Paris2024 and #SportsDiplomacy …
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🎩 Meet @DucroquetSamuel, the Ambassador for Sport at the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs who is helping to forge closer relations between France and the United States through the sports diplomacy prism @franceintheus @franceinnyc
Read on franceussports.com/voices/05…
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📣 Fridays 👉 #SportsDiplomacy Spotlight 🇫🇷🇺🇸
Today is a special package of two 🆕 voices from the @FranceAndUS project written by recent @FrenchStudiesNY alumna Kylie Richmond, who did a special sports diplomacy focus during her last semesters 💪🧵
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🆕#FranceAndUS Voice 👉 Meet @BrunoLALANDE, a sports businessman and publisher who has helped bridge transatlantic divides between France, the United States, and Africa thanks to the sporting realm
#sportsdiplomacy @FranceAndUS
Read on for more franceussports.com/voices/05…
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🇺🇸🇫🇷🏀Saddened to learn about the death of Henry "Gentleman" Fields, one of the first Americans to significantly mark French basketball first with elite side @PUC_1906 but also, as @ArnoLecomte notes, w/the "Dream Team" at Antibes 1970 @FranceAndUS 🧵👇
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📣 Fridays 👉 #SportsDiplomacy Spotlight
🆕Meet Leon Nelson, a @nyutischsports graduate student working in the sport industry who gained new insights about France, its culture & sporting scene as an International Client Relations Manager at @Paris2024
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#NBA Opening Night prép: read how the league is learning to “parle en français,” a phenomenon for generations but 🇫🇷 youth pipeline in the limelight this year #BasketballEmpire #sportsdiplomacy @FranceAndUS #Paris2024
🙏 for the chat!
leparisien.fr/sports/basket/… via @le_Parisien
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Super @MaximeAubin1 story on one of the #NBA's original francophones, #Celtics legend Bob Cousy. Great insights into the transatlantic ties, including the Cousy-Busnel connection.
Too bad you didn't get that cognac! 🇺🇸🇫🇷🏀 @FranceAndUS #BasketballEmpire
🗞️ Bob Cousy m’a accueilli chez lui dans le Massachusetts pour refaire le fil de son histoire (contrariée) avec la France. À lire aujourd’hui dans @lequipe.
📸 : Adélaïde Chantilly
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🥰🤓🇫🇷🇺🇸You can sign up for the monthly @FranceAndUS Newsletter to get the latest Voices and information delivered to your inbox (next one goes out tomorrow!)
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A specialist in Franco-American relations, I direct the @FranceAndUS project, an information and education initiative that highlights transatlantic ties through first-hand experiences of different stakeholders via #sportsdiplomacy
Discover more here teapawt.net/FranceAndUS/status/173…
📣A (re)introduction to FranceAndUS, an education & information project to highlight 🇫🇷🇺🇲 ties & transatlantic #sportsdiplomacy directed by @lempika7 w/contributors from scholars, athletes, diplomats, sports stakeholders past, present & #nextgen 🧵👇
franceussports.com/
Les jeux de @Paris2024 sont déjà derrière nous & les drapeaux ont été remis à la ville de Los Angeles.
L'occasion de mettre en valeur la coopération sportive franco-américaine : cet été, plus de 500 athlètes de la @TeamUSA se sont entrainés au Centre international de haute performance sportive @Athletica_95 à Eaubonne dans le cadre des Jeux de #Paris2024.
Un partenariat dont l’héritage se ressent déjà dans le Val d’Oise, tant au niveau sociétal qu’éducatif et qui s’inscrit dans la durée avec l’envoi de volontaires de la région aux Jeux de @LA28 🇺🇸
cc @francediplo @USOPC_News @TeamUSA @franceintheus @USAenFrancais @USEmbassyFrance
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A quick note on the #sportsdiplomacy of @FlavorFlav 👉 not only did he help communicate, represent, negotiate about @USAWP at #Paris2024 (and empowered the team to do it too via bigger platforms), helping to write new @FranceAndUS chapters, he’s engaging in it post-Games too 🎩
‼️| Taylor Swift to Flavor Flav at the #VMAs
"You are so sweet, you’ve been so sweet to me"
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I’m very much enjoying @heroesandhumans and cannot wait to give this latest one a listen….though I’ll be singing the N’Golo Kanté song 🎶 for the rest of the day
Cc @Soccerpolitics @fguridy @Metzgurdlin @DrDKilpatrick @_futbolprof
N’Golo Kanté is one of the most successful and popular defensive midfielders in football, yet hardly anything is known about him.
How did this humble, fame-shy footballer become so beloved by barely saying a single world?
@KuperSimon and @MehreenKhn cover Kanté in today's (surprisingly heartwarming) episode.
Listen now: bit.ly/4cXyY4T
When the IOC granted host duties to Paris and LA in 2017, it mandated an intertwined legacy in new ways. We’re seeing that now as #Phyrge made the transatlantic flight from @Paris2024 👉 @la28 ✈️ continuing the #FranceAndUS #sportsdiplomacy 😉
When will we get a Phyrge emoji?
Who's ready to welcome a new LA resident? 🙋♂️🙋🏾♀️ #Phryge landed in LA to spread some Olympic cheer and get us pumped for 2028! Thank you @LA28 for taking Phryge under your wing!
#LA28 #Paris2024 #olympics #paralympics #phryge #losangeles #paris
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From Lafayette to Wemby and far beyond the hardcourt, 🇫🇷🇺🇸 ties run deep👇
“The spirit of Lafayette reminds us…[democracy] can never be taken for granted; it is a victory won through constant struggle and perseverance.”
Important reminder via @FranceAndUS
Cc @FranceAndUS
"Lafayette reminds us that citizens and their representatives must remain staunchly committed to democracy in order for it to survive [...] 🇫🇷🇺🇸 friendship remains a beacon of stability, as it has been for 200yrs." My letter to the editor, @PhillyInquirer: inquirer.com/opinion/letters…
