STORY: A working captain on the river since 2010, Driouech heard a couple of months ago that he would be taking part in the six-kilometer (3.7 miles) floating parade from the Pont d'Austerlitz to the Pont d'Iena,
Greece on Friday handed over the Olympic flame of the 2024 Games to Paris organisers in a ceremony at the Athens marble stadium where the competition was revived nearly 130 years ago.Hellenic Olympic Committee chairman Spyros Capralos handed the torch to Paris Olympics chief organiser Tony Estanguet at the Panathenaic Stadium,
For New Zealand's trampoline gymnastics team, the Paris Olympics will be a labour of love. Dylan Schmidt and Maddie Davidson were Olympic team mates in Tokyo but return to the Games as a couple seeking medals and inspiration from each other.
The blades of the windmill on top of the Moulin Rouge cabaret, one of the most famous landmarks in Paris, collapsed during the night, firefighters said Thursday, just months before the French capital hosts the Olympics.
Many polls show that Parisians feel the Olympics are coming at a bad time, and the city's "often hard-to-please residents appear in no mood for a party yet," said AFP. The games will be held as France is undergoing political turmoil,
Khalid Driouech can't wait - the 60-year-old Seine riverboat captain is one of 94 set to transport the 10,500 Olympic athletes down the river during the opening ceremony for the Paris 2024 Games on the evening of July 26.