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Paris police evicted underage migrants from a makeshift camp on Tuesday morning as part of what aid groups are calling a campaign of “social cleansing” in advance of the 2024 Olympics. Around 30 teenage boys and young men from West Africa sleeping on the street were awoken by police before dawn on Tuesday morning and told to pack up their tents and belongings. Most were underage and in the process of seeking residency papers. “I was already scared but I am even more scared because I don’t know where to go,” said a 16-year-old boy who fled from conflict in Burkina Faso and arrived in France two...
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We’re just a few months away from the 2024 Olympics and host city Paris is gearing up for an influx of visitors. The French capital has put a special transport pass on sale which will allow sports fans to benefit from unlimited travel to all Olympic and Paralympic venues across the city throughout the Games. The regional transport operator, Île de France Mobilités, says the 'Paris 2024' travel pass is aimed at visitors, to make their journeys around the city more straightforward. How will the Paris Olympics transport pass work?The pass is now available to buy only as a physical card, but will ...
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Even without the help of Apollo, the flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics was kindled on Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece. Cloudy skies prevented the traditional lighting, when an actress dressed as an ancient Greek priestess uses the sun to ignite a silver torch after offering up a symbolic prayer to Apollo, the ancient Greek sun god. Instead, a backup flame was used that had been lit on the same spot Monday, during the final rehearsal. Normally, the foremost of a group of priestesses in long, pleated dresses dips the fuel-filled torch into a parabolic mirror...
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Fresh doubts have been cast on the possibility of Paris hosting Olympic swimming events in its polluted River Seine. Much excitement was generated by the announcement last year that the Seine will be open for public swimmers in 2025, after staging triathlon events this summer. But water sampling by the European arm of the Surfrider Foundation has revealed that bacteria - including “pollution of faecal origin” - remains dangerously high. “It is therefore clear that the athletes who will be taking part in the Olympic and Paralympic events planned for the Seine will be swimming in polluted water ...
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Fencing in the Grand Palais, show jumping in the Palace of Versailles and basketball on Place de la Concorde — there’s no doubt the Paris Olympics will have an air of the "wow factor". In just four months' time, we’ll see the French capital bursting at the seams with spectators flocking for 16 days of games, across 35 venues in the city. Despite concerns over whether the public transport system is fit for purpose, the 2024 Olympics claims it will be "the greenest in history". Spearheaded by mayor Anne Hidalgo’s sustainable vision for Paris, the aim is to reduce by more than half the carbon emi...
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At least 500 migrants and rough sleepers have been put on chartered buses and moved from the French capital. Some NGOs claim the government spearheaded the campaign to make the French capital "more presentable" for the upcoming Olympic Games. The government says the recent relocations were prompted by emergency accommodation centres reaching saturation. But regional mayors are expressing their outrage at the new arrivals, with the Mayor of Orléans Serge Grouard stating the timing of the relocations, which lead into the July sporting event, is "disturbing". Watch the full report in the player a...
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Dozens participating in France's bistro waiters' race carried a plate with a croissant, coffee and glass of water across a two-kilometre-long route through the Marais neighbourhood in central Paris.
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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has responded to criticisms from Russia regarding athlete restrictions during a press conference that marked the end of its two-day Executive Board session. IOC spokesman Mark Adams said the statements from Moscow, including accusations of "racism and Neo-Nazism", were "very aggressive" and reached "a new low". IOC President Thomas Bach deferred to his spokesperson Adams when asked about the quotes from Russia due to the "personal" nature of the accusations. Adams said the comments go "beyond anything that is acceptable. "To link the president, his nat...
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30-year-old Ange Kunzli, double French boxing World Champion is taking to social media to boost his career. He says ''The trigger that made me get on the networks was mainly the fact that I saw that there were lots of people who started to take up sport who were not particularly good at what they were doing, but who had a lot of fame and it was thanks to that that they were able to make a living from it." He is not alone. Jade Levin explores the risks athletes take by exposing their lives online. Watch the full report in the player above.
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French conservatives and far-right figures have taken against the official poster for this summer's Paris Olympics. Failing to see the joyful vibrancy of Ugo Gattoni‘s design, several political voices have fussed over the fact that a Christian cross and the French flag were missing on the images. Those responsible for the image were "ready to deny France, going so far as to distort reality to cancel its history", Francois-Xavier Bellamy of the Republicans party wrote on X. Top of the list of complaints about the poster, which depicts a stylised panorama of Paris, is the absence of the cross th...
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