From our Olympics correspondent in Paris – The organisers of the 2024 Paris Olympics wanted to make the city's monuments the centrepiece of the Games. As the men and women's beach volleyball quarter finals unfolded under the shimmering heights of the Eiffel Tower on Tuesday night, it was hard to argue with their vision.
Forty-five minutes into the first game of beach volleyball in Paris’s Eiffel Tower Stadium on Tuesday, the sun doesn’t seem to have moved an inch in the sky. An hour in, you start to get the feeling that it never will.
