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☆ Precautions Failed to Halt Rail Sabotage
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Catherine Porter | More About Catherine Porter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The coordinated rail attacks that disrupted train travel in France on three high-speed lines Friday morning occurred despite intensive security precautions put into effect leading up to the Olympics, which officially begin Friday night. The dragnet yielded some results. In central France, a man of Chechen origin was charged in May with the planning of an attack outside an Olympic soccer match in Saint-Étienne. Another man, a neo-Nazi sympathizer living in the Alsace region, was sentenced to two years in prison for publishing an explosives recipe online and for making threats. This week, a 40-year-old Russian man was charged with working at the behest of a foreign power to “provoke hostilities” in France intending to destabilize the Olympic Games.

Organizations: Olympic, Nazi, Olympic Games Locations: France, Paris, Saint, Alsace

☆ Will the Seine be ready for Olympic swimming? With dry weather and a little luck
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( David Aldridge | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +12 min

Being a veteran world-class swimmer — and cyclist, and runner — Taylor Spivey has dealt with worse than Paris’ River Seine. (Bertrand Guay / AFP via Getty Images)Standards for water quality differ in Europe than in the United States. “And that can be associated, on one hand, with the clement weather, dry weather. A month ago, we, basically, we hadn’t had yet a single day where the water quality had been acceptable for the whole year. Right now, probably, today, I would go swim.”GO DEEPER Team USA has owned the Olympic swimming pool — is that about to change in Paris?

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☆ Opening Ceremony Misses the Boat
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Mike Hale | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

About six hours before Celine Dion gutted out the final number of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, the streaming service Peacock emailed a promo for its coverage with the headline, “We’ll all be crying by the end of this.” So maybe they knew more than they were letting on. The homestretch of the marathon four-hour broadcast, when the celebrating athletes and dance extravaganzas and speeches were out of the way, had some starkly lovely images and moving moments: the speedboat carrying former champions up the Seine in the dark (like a real-life echo of Leos Carax’s great water-skiing scene in “Les Amants du Pont-Neuf”). The grand scale and dramatic lighting of the Louvre as the torch was carried, like a firefly’s flame, through its courtyards. The torch coming to the hand of a 100-year-old French cyclist, steady in his wheelchair, and Dion defying her illness to belt out “Hymne à l’Amour” on the Eiffel Tower.

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☆ The Paris Olympics Opened in Spectacular Style
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Matthew Cullen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Nearly 7,000 athletes from 206 delegations were ferried down the Seine today in an extravagant and star-studded opening ceremony to kick off the Olympic Games in Paris. And Celine Dion closed out the night with a triumphant return to the stage. Some competitions have already begun, but the Games move into full swing tomorrow with men’s basketball, tennis and women’s swimming (including the exciting 400-meter freestyle). “Gymnastics, swimming and track remain the heartbeat of the Games,” Andrew Das, our lead Olympics editor, told me. “Good stories there will make any Olympics more memorable.”

Persons: Celine Dion, ” Andrew Das Organizations: Olympic Games, “ Locations: Paris

Paris CNN —France’s high-speed train lines were targeted by multiple “malicious” acts including arson on Friday, in what has been described as “coordinated sabotage” to disrupt travel ahead of the Opening Ceremony of the Paris Olympics. SNCF said one of the acts was “foiled.”Travel on these lines is “very disrupted,” with the railway network needing to divert and cancel a large number of trains, SNCF said. Passengers gather around the departure boards at the Gare Montparnasse train station in Paris. Eurostar, the high-speed train service that connects the United Kingdom with France, has been forced to cancel and divert trains due to the “coordinated acts of malice,” on French lines. Meanwhile, the Paris 2024 Olympic Committee canceled its pre-opening ceremony press conference amid the incident, and CNN has also asked Paris 2024 for comment.

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☆ Celine Dion to return to stage for performance at Olympic Games opening ceremony in Paris
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Dan Heching | Pauline Lockwood | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Celine Dion is set to make her return to the stage at the Summer Olympic Games in Paris. Dion will close the ceremony on Friday with a performance from the first stage of the Eiffel Tower, singing a timeless classic, Edith Piaf’s “L’Hymne à l’amour”. Dion, 56, announced in December 2022 that she was taking time off from professional commitments to focus on her health after revealing her diagnosis. Lady Gaga performs in Paris, France, ahead of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics on Friday. In her documentary, Dion said she was determined to make her return to performing.

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☆ France's high-speed rail network hit by arson attacks, canceling trains ahead of Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Jenni Reid | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

French train services were canceled and delayed on Friday, after the nation's high-speed rail network faced a series of "malicious" acts overnight, including arson, just ahead of the opening of the Olympic Games in Paris. Railways operator SNCF said in a statement that its network had experienced several concurrent attacks on Thursday night, with fire damaging its facilities. The high-speed LGV Atlantique line was hit, along with northern and eastern lines, causing knock-on disruption that the operator expected will impact hundreds of thousands of people. "Following this massive attack aiming to paralyze the high-speed line network, a large number of trains were diverted or canceled," SNCF said, according to a CNBC translation, advising those who are able to not to travel to the station. The impact also hit international Eurostar services, which connect the U.K., France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.

Organizations: Paris, Olympic Games, SNCF, Atlantique, CNBC, Eurostar, Lille Locations: Gare Montparnasse, Paris, Paris . Railways, Paris's, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany

☆ Paris Olympics is the latest test of whether sports can win subscribers for NBC's Peacock
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Lillian Rizzo | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

In this article CMCSA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTThe Paris 2024 logo representing the Olympic Games is displayed near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on April 21, 2024, in anticipation of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. Chesnot | Getty ImagesThe Paris Olympics will offer Comcast another chance to lift its streaming platform, Peacock, as it aims to not only attract more subscribers but keep them. But most importantly, Peacock will air the entirety of the Summer Olympics for the first time. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which were held in 2021 due to the Covid pandemic, drew the lowest-ever audience for the Summer Games. The Beijing Olympics in 2022 had the lowest viewership ever for the Winter Games, which are notably smaller than the Summer Olympics.

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How to watch the Olympics Opening Ceremony in the USThe Olympics Opening Ceremony will air live at 1:30 p.m. Check price at FuboHow to watch the Olympics Opening Ceremony in the UKThe Olympics Opening Ceremony will air on BBC One, which means that British viewers will be able to live stream the ceremony for free through BBC iPlayer. How to watch the Olympics Opening Ceremony in AustraliaThe Olympics Opening Ceremony will live stream for free on 9Now in Australia. How to watch the Olympics Opening Ceremony in FranceFrance.TV is the French home of the Olympics Opening Ceremony. Enjoy the Olympics Opening Ceremony.

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☆ French rail network hit by 'acts of sabotage' in latest transport woes for Paris during the Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewFrance's rail network has been hit by a series of "malicious acts" that have damaged transport routes leading to the capital, causing cancellations and disruption just hours before the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. AdvertisementThough several Olympic events are being held outside Paris, Attal highlighted the impact on French families leaving for vacation this weekend rather than on the Olympics. Michel Euler/ APThe attacks also add more pressure to concerns over whether Paris' transport infrastructure can manage the Olympic crowds. Officials promised to reinvigorate the transport system after Paris won the Olympic bid. But, in November 2023, the mayor of Paris said there were parts of the city where "transport will not be ready and there will not be enough trains," according to French radio network RFI.

Persons: —, Gabriel Attal, Attal, Brian Snyder, Michel Euler, Jimmy Brun, France24 Organizations: Service, SNCF, Business, South, Lille, Railway, Reuters, Eurostar, Paris, RFI, Paris Metro, Paris's Metro, Bloomberg Locations: Atlantique, Northern, Paris, Bordeaux, France, Strasbourg, Germany, London, Seine, Paris's

☆ Doused by Rain, Paris Opens Its Games With a Boat Party on the Seine
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Roger Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In a blaze of French style blending history and artistic audacity, the Paris Olympic Games opened beneath plumes of blue, white and red smoke, as thousands of athletes defied a downpour to sail through the city’s heart, down the Seine toward the Eiffel Tower. Steady rain and rising security concerns could not deter the athletes from more than 200 delegations. They laughed, they danced and they waved national flags, some from the decks of converted sightseeing boats, in a ceremony dedicated to the theme of togetherness to heal a divided France and a fractured world. Lady Gaga, emerging from behind pink puffballs in a black bustier, performed in French. Cabaret artists can-canned on the riverbanks.

Persons: Lady Gaga, Aya Nakamura Organizations: Paris Olympic, Republican Guard Locations: France, French, Malian

☆ In pictures: The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Emmalee Reed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

For the first time in the history of the Summer Olympics, the opening ceremony took place outside of a stadium. Athletes paraded down the Seine River on boats, passing some of Paris’ most iconic landmarks. There were also big screens set up across the city to allow as many fans as possible to watch the event. The six-kilometer (roughly 3.7-mile) route ended in front of the famous Trocadéro, opposite the Eiffel Tower. The ceremony closed with Celine Dion singing Edith Piaf’s “Hymne À L’Amour" from the first level of the Eiffel Tower.

Persons: Celine Dion, Edith Piaf’s “ Organizations: Summer, Eiffel Locations: Paris

☆ Why the Olympics’ Parade of Nations Is the World’s Costume Party
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Jason Farago | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Welcome back to the Olympics, and a five-ringed circus of sport and security, national pride and international sponsorship. This summer’s Games begin in Paris this Friday, with an uncommon opening ceremony: athletes and acrobats floating along the Seine for as many spectators as the antiterror police will allow. France is still processing its recent snap legislative election, which nearly brought the far right to power. The ceremony will be all about France’s openness to the world. Not all the local spectators will approve of the message.

Persons: ”, Emmanuel Macron Locations: Paris, France

☆ What to expect from Paris during the 2024 Summer Olympic Games
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Kyle Feldscher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Paris CNN —The 2024 Summer Olympic Games formally get underway on Friday with an incredibly unique Opening Ceremony aimed at putting one of the world’s most famous cities on display. PARIS, FRANCE - JULY 24: A view of Trocadero Square, the venue for the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, with the Eiffel Tower in the background, on July 24, 2024 in Paris, France. The 2024 Summer Games were organized with a mind to put the entire French nation on display, including its more tropical territories. A Games focused on sustainabilityPARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 14: The Paris 2024 logo, representing the Olympic and Paralympic Games four months prior to the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic games is displayed on the facade of Paris town hall on March 14, 2024 in Paris, France. The Opening Ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games takes place on Friday 26th July, along the River Seine.

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☆ Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony: When and how to watch
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Matias Grez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Paris 2024 will truly feature an Olympics Opening Ceremony like no other. How to watch the Opening CeremonyThe Opening Ceremony for the Paris Summer Games will begin at 7:30 p.m. local time (1:30 p.m. Fortunately for organizers, hundreds of dancers that were threatening to disrupt the Opening Ceremony over pay have called off strike action after reaching an agreement with Paris 2024, according to their union. French theatre director and actor Thomas Jolly is leading the Opening Ceremony and said earlier this year he wants to showcase all of France’s cultures. I wondered how I could create a show where everyone can feel represented as part of this great union,” he told AP.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Martin Rickett, Thomas Jolly, ” Organizations: CNN, Paris, NBC, Summer, Louvre, Notre, AP Locations: Austerlitz, Paris, “, Seine

☆ On Eve of Olympics, a Curious Mix of Security and Silence
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Catherine Porter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Helicopters whirling overhead. And an army brigade, marching by in formation, machine guns hoisted to their chests. This is what it has been like getting to the front door of my apartment building for the past few evenings. It’s a weird moment in Paris, on the eve of the Olympic Games and its unusual opening ceremony. The Seine’s banks and bridges, normally teeming with humanity, are suddenly empty.

Organizations: Police, Olympic Games Locations: Paris

☆ 10 athletes to watch from Team USA at the Summer Olympics
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Kyle Feldscher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Paris CNN —Competition is already underway in Paris for the 2024 edition of the Summer Olympics and Team USA is set to take to the River Seine Friday for the Opening Ceremonies. It was the biggest shock of the Tokyo Games and left many observers wondering if the career of one of the most incredible athletes of all time had just ended in a flash. Noah Lyles competes in the men's 200 meter semi-final on Day Eight of the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Track & Field Trials at Hayward Field on June 28, 2024 in Eugene, Oregon. Sha’carri RichardsonSha'Carri Richardson wins women's 200m heat in 21.99 for the top time during the US Olympic Team Trials at Hayward Field. Sophia SmithHeading to her first Olympics, Smith is the leading light of a new generation of stars for the US Women’s National Team.

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☆ The Olympics will challenge mobile-network providers to satiate 15 million attendees' hunger for internet connectivity
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Chris Stokel-Walker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

The Olympics will challenge wireless providers as 15 million people seek internet access at once. To meet that expectation, telecommunications companies must bolster Paris' 5G network, the technology system that powers users' mobile-internet access. Harnessing private 5G infrastructureOrange is installing cellphone antennas on boats and extension units in sporting venues to bolster its 5G network. It uses 5G's network-splicing capabilities to reserve a part of the public 5G network for private use. To support the 2024 Olympics' connectivity needs, network providers must prepare to rely on 5G's strength.

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☆ Kremlin Uses Olympic Ban as Another Arrow to Shoot at the West
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Valerie Hopkins | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

More than 10,500 athletes from some 200 countries will participate in the Olympic Games in Paris, but only 15 of them will be from Russia. Back in Russia, the competition will not be shown on television for the first time since 1984. And media commentators expressed disgust that a drag queen carried the Olympic torch — which is antithetical to Russia’s increasing emphasis on what it calls “traditional values” and its crackdown on L.G.B.T.Q. It’s quite a comedown for Russia, a traditional Olympic powerhouse that for years used the competition as a way to project power and foster national pride, and often finished first in the final medal count. And it represents the price the country is paying for its invasion of Ukraine two years ago and the daily mayhem it inflicts there.

Organizations: Olympic Games Locations: Paris, Russia, Ukraine

☆ Exclusive: Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo optimistic about Olympic Opening Ceremony but acknowledges weather could pose a problem
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Saskya Vandoorne | Melissa Bell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

Paris, France CNN —Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Thursday that weather could pose a problem to Friday’s Olympic Opening Ceremony if it rains, but she remains optimistic in an international exclusive with CNN. Hidalgo would not confirm rumors that superstars Celine Dion and Lady Gaga may perform at the ceremony. “It’s a surprise,” she said, hoping that the Olympic Opening Ceremony will boost the public’s enthusiasm about the Games. Hidalgo last week swam in the River Seine in an effort to demonstrate the cleanliness of the river for the Olympics amid E. coli bacteria concerns. The triathlon and open water swimming Olympic events are due to take place in the Seine.

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Paris CNN —French sprinter Sounkamba Sylla will now be taking part in the Opening Ceremony at this year’s Olympics, France’s sports minister told CNN, after the runner previously said she would not be allowed to because she wears a headscarf. “You are selected for the Olympic Games, organized in your country, but you can’t take part in the opening ceremony because you wear a scarf on your head,” Sylla posted on her private Instagram account Sunday, per Reuters. But in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, French sports minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra said a solution has been found to allow Sylla to take part in Friday’s ceremony. “The issue is solved,” Oudéa-Castéra told Amanpour. The Opening Ceremony takes place on Friday and will be held along the River Seine, marking the first time that the ceremony has not taken place inside a stadium.

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☆ Coco Gauff still can’t wrap her head around the honor of being Team USA’s flagbearer
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Kyle Feldscher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Gauff will serve as flag bearer alongside basketball superstar LeBron James – a role she has yet to truly wrap her mind around. “I don’t know when I’m going to meet him, but I’m already stressed about it really,” Gauff told CNN’s Coy Wire. She’s one of the faces of Team USA in Paris and says she’s finding the experience a little bizarre. “It took a while for it to sink in, (it still hasn’t really) sunken in,” Gauff told Wire just hours ahead of her big moment. “So many people are coming up to say congratulations, not just from Team USA but from other sports and countries as well.

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Paris boasts many luxurious five-star accommodations. For a break from the city, consider Chateau de Villette, a late 17th-century estate 40 minutes from Paris by car. France, the birthplace of the Michelin Guide, offers no shortage of luxurious dining, with 630 starred restaurants nationwide, including nine in Paris with three Michelin stars. Le Cinq, in Paris' Four Seasons Hotel George V, serves dishes by award-winning chef Christian Le Squer and wine from a cellar that can hold 50,000 bottles. Other notable options include Restaurant Kei, which fuses Japanese and Western cuisines, and Epicure in Le Bristol Paris, which serves elevated classic French fare.

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☆ Olympic security checks block 5,000 people, including 1,000 suspected of meddling and espionage
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Saskya Vandoorne | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —France’s Interior Ministry rejected around 5,000 security accreditation requests for Olympics volunteers and workers, with roughly 1,000 of those cases blocked due to suspicions of meddling or espionage. The Ministry outlined in a statement on Tuesday that it conducted “about a million” administrative investigations into various staff for the 2024 Paris Games. Of those checks, varying threats were identified, including meddling and espionage, convicted criminal records, illegal alien statuses, radical Islam, and ultra-right and ultra-left ideologies. The statement re-iterated that this will be the first Opening Ceremony taking place outside of a stadium for the Summer Games, creating significant security challenges. However, the ministry expressed its confidence, stating that it’s “now ready” after final rehearsals took place on Tuesday evening.

Persons: ”, it’s, Gerald Darmanin, “, ” Darmanin Organizations: CNN, France’s, Olympics, Olympic Games, Summer, French Locations: Islam, Russia, France, Paris, Seine, “ France

☆ Dancers Drop Threat to Strike During Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Aurelien Breeden | More About Aurelien Breeden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Dancers in France called off a threat to strike during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris after event organizers met some of their demands, labor unions said on Wednesday. Thousands of dancers, musicians and other performers are expected to line the bridges and banks of the Seine River on Friday for the ceremony, which for the first time ever is being held outside rather than in an enclosed sports stadium. Some dancers, angered by disparities in pay, had threatened a walkout, which would have partly disrupted a widely anticipated and high-risk event that will be watched by millions across the world. About 200 dancers even briefly interrupted a rehearsal on the banks of the Seine in protest earlier this week, standing motionless with their fists raised in the air for the duration of their eight-minute routine.

Organizations: Olympic Games Locations: France, Paris, Seine

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