París 2024

The giant show on the River Seine on July 26 will mark the first time that an opening ceremony is held outside of a usual stadium setting

The deal includes the Paris Olympics, the 2026 Winter Games in northern Italy, and — the likely prize asset — the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028

Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne called a meeting for Sunday evening with key ministers and officials charged with security for a ‘total review’ of measures in place and the handling of the ‘most dangerous individuals’

USA Basketball does not plan to name its team until the spring of 2024, but if healthy, Embiid would seem certain to have one of the 12 spots on the squad that will be coached by Golden State’s Steve Kerr

French police searched the Paris Olympic organizing committee headquarters in June as part of corruption investigations into contracts linked to the event

The criteria follow the International Olympic Committee’s guidelines that only individual athletes from Russia and Belarus — no teams — can be allowed to compete in Paris, and that they must not have shown any public support for the war

French police say that temporarily relocating them is necessary to maintain security during the opening ceremony

Pioneering mothers are showing that it is possible to breastfeed and be competitive. They include French judo star Clarisse Agbégnénou

‘We are ready,’ says the city’s mayor Anne Hidalgo, a year ahead of an event that should portray a united France

Uncertainty dogged the Tokyo Games in 2021 during the COVID-19 outbreak and chaotic organization plagued the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics

The killings at a kosher Parisian supermarket and a satirical newspaper, Charlie Hebdo, persuaded Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo that bringing the Summer Olympics back to France’s capital for the first time in a century could unite the hurting nation

Officials from many of the sports on the Olympic program are still split on how to treat Russian athletes one year before the Paris Games

Some residents question whether the newfound focus is just pushing users elsewhere instead of treating deeper ills at the root of the crack crisis

The acrobatic team event is physical with flips and throws and swimmers diving off the shoulders of teammates below

Tuesday’s search and other related raids were linked to two preliminary investigations related to the Olympics that had not previously been made public, according to an official with the financial prosecutor’s office

They approved a bill that would legalize the temporary use of so-called intelligent surveillance systems to safeguard the Paris Games and Paralympics

Organizers are planning to install a water-cooling system under the Athletes Village like the one that has helped the Louvre Museum cope with the sweltering heat that broke records last year

Organizers promised relatively modest prices and “egalitarian” access to events through an online system meant to bring the masses to stadiums and arenas for as little as $26