Paris 2024 promises to be an Olympic Games like no other
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Paris 2024 promises to be an Olympic Games like no other

The Independent  

Sign up to our free sport newsletter for all the latest news on everything from cycling to boxing Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news Sign up to our free sport email for all the latest news SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Boats down the Seine, B-boys at the Place de la Concorde and the lure of cold, hard cash promise to make the Paris 2024 Olympics, which get underway in 100 days’ time in the French capital, a Games like none before. Two weeks later, windmills, freezers and top rocks will become an official part of the Olympic lexicon for the first time as breaking makes its debut, B-boys and B-girls going head-to-head in DJ-driven battles. Breaking joins other recently established sports like skateboarding, surfing and BMXing in the so-called ‘urban’ section of a constantly evolving Olympic programme, and one for which it would appear a city like Paris is ideally suited. The Olympic movement has evolved unthinkably since that first Paris Games 124 years ago, when resolutely amateur pursuits like angling, ballooning and croquet were also on the programme, the latter reportedly staged in front of a single paying spectator.

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The 2024 Olympics were a success for Paris but a calamity for some of its businesses
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The 2024 Olympics were a success for Paris but a calamity for some of its businesses

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Paris sets ‘new benchmark’ for Para sport as Games end on a high

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Paralympics 2024: When, who and how to watch the Paris games
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NPR  

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Associated Press  

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China Daily  

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The Hindu  

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Paris Olympics come to glittering close after bringing Games back to the people
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Paris Olympics 2024 closing ceremony: Parisian theatre, visual spectacle, and Hollywood end Summer Games
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The Hindu  

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Paris Olympics 2024 close, Los Angeles takes torch: Five key takeaways
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Al Jazeera  

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ABC  

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AP PHOTO: Paris closes out the 2024 Olympics with a final star-studded show
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AP PHOTO: Paris closes out the 2024 Olympics with a final star-studded show

The Independent  

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Paris Games closed out with star-studded show, Olympic flag passed to Los Angeles
4 months, 4 weeks ago

Paris Games closed out with star-studded show, Olympic flag passed to Los Angeles

India Today  

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Paris Olympics 2024: France turned the Games into a citywide party for everyone.
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Paris Olympics 2024: France turned the Games into a citywide party for everyone.

Slate  

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The Independent  

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As Olympic competition winds down, Paris security services shift their focus to the closing ceremony

The Independent  

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Paris 2024 – the winners and the losers

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Associated Press  

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The Hindu  

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Slate  

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Hindustan Times  

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Hindustan Times  

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Olympics athletics schedule: Every event, date and start time at Paris 2024

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Paris 2024 Olympics, Day 11 - August 6: What are the medal events today?

The Hindu  

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India Today  

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Associated Press  

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ABP News  

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5 months ago

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Slate  

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Paris 2024 Olympics, Day Nine - August 4: What are the medal events today?
5 months ago

Paris 2024 Olympics, Day Nine - August 4: What are the medal events today?

The Hindu  

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Paris Olympics TV schedule: Monday’s listings
5 months ago

Paris Olympics TV schedule: Monday’s listings

LA Times  

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Olympic Games Paris 2024: Men’s road cycling course ascends Montmartre; Remco Evenepoel takes gold.
5 months ago

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Slate  

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A tour of Paris: The men’s and women’s Olympic road races highlight city’s spectacular sights
5 months, 1 week ago

A tour of Paris: The men’s and women’s Olympic road races highlight city’s spectacular sights

Associated Press  

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Olympics gymnastics schedule: Every event, date and start time at Paris 2024
5 months, 1 week ago

Olympics gymnastics schedule: Every event, date and start time at Paris 2024

The Independent  

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Paris 2024 Olympics schedule and day-by-day events
5 months, 1 week ago

Paris 2024 Olympics schedule and day-by-day events

The Independent  

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Paris 2024 Olympics, Day Eight - August 3: What are the medal events today?
5 months, 1 week ago

Paris 2024 Olympics, Day Eight - August 3: What are the medal events today?

The Hindu  

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The Olympics are giving breaking a global stage in Paris. Not everyone is celebrating
5 months, 1 week ago

The Olympics are giving breaking a global stage in Paris. Not everyone is celebrating

Associated Press  

PARIS — In the basement of a sports complex in Paris, dozens of breakers, or break dancers, gathered almost every weeknight in July to freestyle, practicing classic moves like the windmill, freezes and headspins to the soundtrack of steady breakbeats from a playlist called “100% Flow.” They warmed up with footwork – “toprocking” – and catching the beat before diving …

Google Doodle Today Celebrates Sailing At Paris Games 2024 With An Homage To Marseilles Marina
5 months, 1 week ago

Google Doodle Today Celebrates Sailing At Paris Games 2024 With An Homage To Marseilles Marina

ABP News  

Google Doodle today shines a spotlight on the sport of sailing, as part of its series celebrating the Paris 2024 Olympics. Check out today's Google Doodle below: Since the commencement of the Paris 2024 Olympics, Google has been highlighting various sports through its Doodles. Sailing At The 2024 Summer Olympics Sailing has a long history in the Olympics, dating back …

Olympic Games Paris 2024: Athletes, residents, volunteers enjoy city’s carnival-life atmosphere.
5 months, 1 week ago

Olympic Games Paris 2024: Athletes, residents, volunteers enjoy city’s carnival-life atmosphere.

Slate  

This is part of Slate’s 2024 Olympics coverage. Third, because the Games require such extensive use of the transportation network, there are also 19,000 purple-vested public transportation employees at and around stations to help visitors buy tickets and find their way. “It’s top, it’s exceptional,” said Hakim Draoui, who runs the cash register at his brother’s convenience store near the …

AP PHOTOS: With the Paris Games as their canvas, people are enjoying the City of Light
5 months, 1 week ago

AP PHOTOS: With the Paris Games as their canvas, people are enjoying the City of Light

Associated Press  

Paris has much to offer its residents and any visitor. A spectator walks through a water mist sprayers on her way to Eiffel Tower Stadium to watch a beach volleyball at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Sunday, July 28, 2024, in Paris, France. Juliette Labous, of France, is seen through a spectator’s umbrella while competing in the women’s cycling time trial …

Olympic Games Paris 2024: Seine deemed safe to swim in; how Paris’ sewers empty into the river.
5 months, 1 week ago

Olympic Games Paris 2024: Seine deemed safe to swim in; how Paris’ sewers empty into the river.

Slate  

This is part of Slate’s 2024 Olympics coverage. World Triathlon, the city and regional government, and the French weather service convened, for the fourth day in a row, at 3:30 a.m. And the flagship promise of the 2024 Paris Games—swimming competitions in a restored Seine, in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower—came true at the unholy hour of 4:14 a.m., …

Paris Olympics set record for number of openly LGBTQ+ athletes
5 months, 1 week ago

Paris Olympics set record for number of openly LGBTQ+ athletes

LA Times  

Jeremy Goupille shows off his nails painted with rainbow colors and the Olympic rings at the opening of Pride House, the safe space for the LGBTQ+ community of athletes at the Paris Olympics. “It’s not a place to be LGBTQ+.” While the Olympic Games have made giant strides in the years since — the 2024 Paris Olympics set a record …

Fans and athletes blast Paris Olympic Games organisers for a lack of cold water as temperatures in French capital reach a scorching 37C
5 months, 1 week ago

Fans and athletes blast Paris Olympic Games organisers for a lack of cold water as temperatures in French capital reach a scorching 37C

Daily Mail  

There was fresh humiliation for Games’ organisers last night after sweltering fans and athletes blasted the lack of cold water as concerns about E.coli in the River Siene led to the men’s triathlon being postponed. In the early hours of Sunday morning, a pre-race triathlon event due to take place in the Seine was cancelled due to water quality concerns …

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