It might be time to get existential. The Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which ended on Sunday night in a lavish closing ceremony, screamed chronicle of a stress foretold. But 16 medal-winning summer days and nights for French athletes brought a new vision of success, both at home and abroad.
Paris and its monumental treasures were the stars as local organisers had asserted during the prelude to the official start of the Games on 26 July while dealing with the gripes.
