From our special correspondent - The sporting competitions at the Paris Olympic Games are being staged at some of France’s most emblematic locations: the Palace of Versailles, the former bastion of the French monarchy; the final resting place of Napoleon at Les Invalides; that most Parisian of monuments, the Eiffel Tower. Photographers have been happily capturing the spectacle.
The organisers of the Paris Games planned a spectacle like no previous Olympics, with an opening ceremony featuring a flotilla of boats sailing down the River Seine and using Paris’s iconic landmarks as competition venues, the better to showcase the city’s heritage.
