Snoop Dogg to carry Olympic torch on final stages through Paris
US rapper will conclude torch’s relay through Saint-Denis and Olympic Village to mark start of 33rd Games Snoop Dogg will carry the Olympic torch through...
Category : Paris Olympic Games 2024
‘It’s a very strange feeling’: can the man who won Olympic gold bring glory to the Paris Games?
2024 Games organiser Tony Estanguet tells how chats with British sporting legend Sebastian Coe have kept him on an even keel It has to feel...
Paris mayor swims in the Seine to show it’s clean enough for Olympic swimming events – video
The Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo, swam in the long-polluted Seine, fulfilling a promise to show the river was clean enough to host open swimming competitions...
Paris mayor says rise of far right will not dampen Olympics mood
Anne Hidalgo says Paris ‘stands up for freedom’ amid Marine Le Pen success in first round of voting The Paris mayor has sought to reassure...
Thousands of homeless people removed from Paris in pre-Olympics ‘social cleaning’
Campaigners say operation to bus ‘undesirable’ people out of city and wider Île-de-France region has intensified Thousands of homeless people have been removed from Paris...
Teenager arrested in France on suspicion of Olympics attack plot
Interior ministry says 18-year-old Chechen suspected of planning ‘Islamist-inspired’ attack in Saint-Étienne French security services have arrested a Chechen teenager suspected of plotting an “Islamist-inspired”...
Olympic Games’ €1.4bn clean-up aims to get Parisians swimming in the Seine
Organisers expect 75% of identified bacterial pollution will be gone by the time the starting gun fires for the open water events Beside a sign...
Super-rich spending up to $500,000 on exclusive Paris Olympics packages
Third-party hospitality packages are outlawed, yet agency part-owned by associates of Rafael Nadal and LeBron James promises access to top events as well as to...
Aya Nakamura thanks fans for support over Olympics racism as she wins awards
French singer dedicates top prizes at Les Flammes ‘to all the blacks’ after backlash over rumoured Paris show The French pop star Aya Nakamura has...
The 1924 Paris Olympics saved the Games. Can this year’s event repeat that success? | David Goldblatt
Faced with competition from rival sporting events, the future of the Games hung in the balance. A century on, new hurdles are looming Paris 1924...
