Start the countdown clock. In exactly 100 days, more than 10,000 athletes and tens of thousands of spectators will converge on Paris for the start of the 33rd Summer Olympic Games, a 16-day extravaganza that marks the first time the City of Lights has hosted the world’s pre-eminent sports festival in a century. In keeping with the slogan for this year’s Olympics, “Games Wide Open,” the opening ceremony will take place outside a stadium setting for the first time. The plans are ambitious: a...
France's government may change the Olympic opening ceremony in Paris because of security worries.
PARIS >> A terrorist attack in 2015 that left her city angry and heartbroken persuaded Paris’ mayor, Anne Hidalgo, to campaign for the Olympic Games.
In 100 days, the City of Light will become the city of Olympians. More than 10,000 athletes will compete in 329 events across two weeks of the Paris Summer Olympics.
The City of Light, glittering for the planet's premier sporting event, will ‘appropriately’ see the costs of tickets, hotels, food, transportation skyrocket to Olympic proportions.
April 17 marks the 100 days countdown to the Paris Olympics ambitious opening ceremony. The first Games in a century in France's capital will be judged not only for the sporting spectacle. Another yardstick will be their impact on disadvantaged Paris suburbs away from iconic city-center landmarks hosting much of the action. By promising socially positive and also less polluting and less wasteful Olympics, the city synonymous with romance aims to rekindle love for the Games. The idea that the...
By JOHN LEICESTER PARIS — In Paris’ outskirts, a bright-eyed young girl is eager for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to end. That’s because the swimming club where 10-year-old Lyla Kebbi trains will inherit an Olympic pool. It will be dismantled after the Games and trucked from the Olympic race venue in Paris’ high-rise business […]
In Paris’ outskirts, a bright-eyed young girl is eager for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to end.
French politicians and an extremist group raised hell over Black French singer Aya Nakamura performing at the Paris Summer Olympics opening.
There are only 100 days to go until the best athletes in the world will begin representing their country in the 2024 Paris Olympics. The Olympic Games are being held in the French capital for the f
World Athletics said track-and-field stars. The change breaks 128 years of the Olympic tradition as amateur competition. Britain's leading swimmers believe this could cause friction at the Olympics
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