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For the last two weeks, Paris completely lost its cool. The rain that had doused the opening ceremony had ceased by then, and Paris felt like a city en fête. “What happened four weeks ago — with the election and everything that came afterward — was a real shame. They wanted to forget about it for a while.”It is fair to say they embraced their opportunity. More than anything, though, there have been French tricolors.
Persons: , Teddy Riner, Marie, José Perec, , Anne Brion, Tricolors, Richard Salandre Organizations: Games, Tuileries, United Locations: Paris, French, fête, United States,
The Olympic Flame Melts Parisian Cool
  + stars: | 2024-08-04 | by ( Rory Smith | Ségolène Le Stradic | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
He struts around the sold-out arena, prowling the floor, basking in the noise and the adulation. In that moment, that first flush of victory, Lebrun is not a bespectacled 17-year-old table tennis player from Montpellier. For everyone present — up to and including the French former soccer hero Zinedine Zidane — he is a rock star. At the fencing competition, held in the lavish surrounds of the Grand Palais, fans waving tricolors have produced enough noise to echo down the Champs-Élysées. The sound from the stadium at Invalides, home to archery, has been loud enough to wake Napoleon.
Persons: Félix Lebrun, Lebrun, Zinedine Zidane —, Léon, Napoleon Organizations: Palais, Stade, France Locations: Montpellier, French, Paris, Invalides
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