{"id":7234,"date":"2024-08-11T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=7234"},"modified":"2024-08-11T13:28:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T13:28:02","slug":"basque-fact-of-the-week-how-did-the-basques-do-at-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2024\/08\/11\/basque-fact-of-the-week-how-did-the-basques-do-at-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Basque Fact of the Week: How Did the Basques Do at the Olympics?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Olympics are nearly over. As I posted a few weeks ago<\/a>, the Basque Country – including Euskadi, Iparralde, and Nafarroa – sent 43 athletes to the Olympic Games in Paris. How did they do? Some of the “big” names, like Chourraut and Rahm, didn’t do as well as hoped. However, including individual medals given to players in team sports, this Basque contingent won 8 medals! If we count team wins as only one medal (and to be fair, those would be “shared” with the rest of the teams they played with which included non-Basque athletes), the Basques won 1 individual medal and another 4 team medals. To put that in perspective, that as many as countries like Austria, Czechia, and Mexico won. In any case, all of these athletes gave their all and deserve a round of applause!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Basques were well represented at the Olympic Games in Paris. In total, Basque athletes won 8 medals! Images from (starting at the top) Elk Valley Times<\/a>, Citizen Tribune<\/a>, worldfootball.net<\/a>, MSN<\/a>, Idaho Press<\/a>, Clayton News Daily<\/a>, HJ News<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Here is a list of all Basque athletes and their achievements at the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n