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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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Paris is expecting to welcome an expected 15 million tourists this summer as it hosts this year's **Olympic Games**and it looks as though those seeking reasonably priced accommodation may get lucky, with costs expected to be lower than first predicted. According to insurance firm Réassurez-moi, the price of booking one night in Paris or a neighbouring area during the Olympic period stood at €436 in April, down from €1,023 seen in July last year. The drop in prices, experts say, is primarily caused by an excess of supply. Last month, when speaking to Reuters, Paris deputy mayor for housing Jacq...
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Joining the global rush to capitalise on artificial intelligence (AI), Olympic organisers unveiled their plans on Friday to use the rapidly advancing technology in sports. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) outlined its agenda for taking advantage of AI. Officials said it could be used to help identify promising athletes, personalise training methods and make the games fairer by improving judging. "Today we are making another step to ensure the uniqueness of the Olympic Games and the relevance of sport. To do this, we have to be leaders of change," IOC President Thomas Bach said at a pr...
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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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French-Malian popstar Aya Nakamura has released a single responding to the racist abuse she was subjected to when it was suggested she’d perform at the Paris Summer Olympics opening ceremony. New single ‘Doggy’ hits back at the criticism of the 28-year-old singer that came after reports suggested French President Emmanuel Macron wanted her to perform an Edith Piaf song at the ceremony. “I have no enemies myself, they're the ones hating on me; Lots of enemies but I don't even know them,” the lyrics to the song go before jumping into the chorus: “You want it doggy, doggy, doggy, doggy, doggy, do...
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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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With less than four months before the much-anticipated event, the International Olympic Committee emphasises the event will be the first gender-equal one in history. One of the hashtags used in the promotional material for the 2024 Paris Summer Games is #GenderEqualOlympics. These upcoming Olympic Games will indeed have a 50 per cent participation rate between men and women. However, in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, 48.8 per cent of participants were women – very close to achieving full parity. But in certain disciplines, the parity is not respected. Wrestling, for example, is a sport where only me...
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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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Aya Nakamura has not yet been confirmed to sing at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, but reports that French President Emmanuelle Macron has sounded her out to headline the event have sparked a racism row in the country. The possibility that the French-Malian pop singer might perform from the repertoire of national treasure Edith Piaf has caused indignation among some far-right supporters. Nakamura is the most listened-to French artist in the world and the only woman to feature in the country’s top 20 bestselling albums of 2023. But the Olympics speculation has made her the target of ...
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One of the greatest joys of Europe’s older cities is the history and beauty of buildings, standing for hundreds of years as a testament to construction. In my role, I pick up on the varying styles of buildings, and the touches of detail which point to a time in history. But what I also notice is how they were built for the climates they were intended for, and how resilient they might be to the reality of a changing climate. I am asked more frequently than ever, as climate change rhetoric becomes mainstream, what role our historic buildings have in our fight to tackle it. There is a lot that go...
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