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PARIS — Olympics organizers are banking on the sun and scorching temperatures to improve the water quality of the Seine River enough for triathletes to swim in it. “But I hope we can have a triathlon and I can accomplish this dream that I’ve had since I was a little kid.” Aurélie Merle, the Paris 2024 director of sports, told …
In the closing weeks of 1969, Merle Haggard took “Okie From Muskogee” to No. Which explains how, last week, Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” was momentarily outgunned on the Hot 100 by “Seven” by Jungkook, an erstwhile member of the on-hiatus South Korean juggernaut BTS. Not on the Hot 100—the song “Justice for All,” credited to “Donald Trump …
