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Marseille art festival tells migrant stories with an Olympic twist

The Spring Contemporary Art Festival – also known as PAC – showcases emerging and well-known artists around dozens of venues in a three-week festival of creativity across south-east France. This year, with the Olympic Games on the horizon, sport has inspired the program, as well as Marseille's migrant-rich identity.

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Refugee Olympic Team 2024: Which athletes are heading to Paris?

This is the third year a team of refugee athletes will head to the Olympic Games

Evening Standard

Garbage collectors in Paris threaten extended strike during Olympics

Paris faces the risk of unsightly rubbish piling up on its streets during the Olympic Games after a strike notice for the city’s garbage collectors was issued on Wednesday by France’s largest union.

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2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup: Semifinalists And Their Prospects

The 2024 AFC U-23 Asian Cup semifinals feature Japan, Uzbekistan, Iraq, and Indonesia competing for a spot in the Olympic Games, showcasing talent and dete...

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Israel and Iran cross the line: inside the 26 April Guardian Weekly

What next for the Middle East? Plus: Paris prepares for the Olympic Games.

The Guardian - UK

The Olympic Games Paris 2024 will feature more AI power than ever — with Intel helping lead the way

The Olympic Games Paris 2024 is set to be the most AI-friendly ever.

TechRadar

A palatial venue revealed: Paris's Grand Palais emerges after repairs

Its majestic dome is a curvilinear flourish on the Paris skyline. After three years of renovations, the Grand Palais is ready to welcome visitors for the Olympic Games this summer. The site will then open its doors to the public for a host of cultural events in the spring of…

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Police clear France's largest squat ahead of Paris Olympics

France's largest squat, which housed up to 450 mostly legal immigrants, was on Wednesday evacuated in the southern suburbs of Paris – 100 days ahead of the Olympic Games.

Radio France Internationale

‘We work just as hard’: Team GB swimmers want Olympic prize money

Britain’s double Tokyo 2020 champion Tom Dean has joined a chorus of calls for prize money to be paid at the Olympic Games

The Guardian - UK

Grand Palais restoration in Paris through the lens of champion fencer Enzo Lefort

As Paris’ Grand Palais prepares to reopen following extensive restoration by Chatillon Architectes, we visit the site with champion fencer and photographer Enzo Lefort, who documented the space ahead of the Olympic Games 2024

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Architecture students design Olympic fan zones for Paris suburbs

How can people living outside the centre of Paris get the most out of the Olympic Games? French architecture students sought to answer the question by designing portable fan zones for the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.

Radio France Internationale

An Ardennes horizon and the easing Olympic obsession – Amanda Spratt

'I still think I have room to grow and room to improve' says Australian embarking on her 13th season as a professional

Cycling News

World Athletics will pay $50,000 to Olympic gold medalists in track and field events

The prizes, which will also go to the winners of the marathon and race walk, come as the Olympic Games have shifted away from amateurism. Many medalists already earn bonuses from their home countries.

WEKU

The rise and fall of Atos, the European tech champion now €4.65 billion in debt

French IT services and consulting firm Atos unveiled a refinancing plan on Tuesday that failed to fully reassure investors. In this edition, we take a look at how the company, which provides cybersecurity services to the Olympic Games and supercomputers for France's nuclear arsenal, accumulated close to €5 billion in…

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"The time has come” – relay team to run from London to Paris to urge Olympic committee to bring back trail running

It has been 100 years since trail running last featured at the Olympic Games, and these runners want it back

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Macron unveils Olympic Aquatics Centre in countdown to Paris Games

French President Emmanuel Macron will on Thursday hail the array of artisans, architects and engineers involved in building the Paris Aquatics Centre during an inauguration ceremony of the showpiece venue to be used during the Olympic Games.

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Paris Olympics Exhibit Explores Political And Historical Significance

Explore the intricate relationship between politics, history, and the Olympic Games at a Paris exhibit.

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Beijing 2008 Olympics: one world, one dream?

For the 2008 Olympic Games, Beijing advocated the idea of "One World, One Dream." However, the dream of the Chinese government is not the dream of everyone. In a vast social system long known for its tight control over its population, it's difficult for controllers and the controlled to share…

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London Still Awaits Olympic's Promised 'Affordable' Housing

More than a decade after London hosted the Olympic Games, cranes are still everywhere in and around the Olympic Park in Stratford, where an array of buildings are under construction.

International Business Times

Paris Crowns Champion Waiters In One-of-a-kind 'Cafe Race'

Visitors to central Paris were treated on Sunday to the sight of hundreds of aproned waiters surging through the mediaeval streets, in a one-of-a-kind race designed to show off the profession months ahead of the Olympic Games.

France 24

‘Course des cafés’: Paris revives iconic waiters’ race ahead of Olympic Games

Visitors to central Paris were treated Sunday to the sight of hundreds of aproned waiters surging through the city's medieval streets, in a one-of-a-kind race designed to show off the profession months ahead of the Olympic Games.

France 24

For 2024 Paris Olympics, Colombes' historic stadium regains its former lustre

One of France’s most historic sporting venues, the Colombes stadium northwest of the French capital was the principal venue when Paris hosted the Olympic Games in 1924. After undergoing thorough renovations, the site will recover some of its former glory by again playing host to Olympic sport this summer.

France 24

All fun and games: France's love of 'les jeux'

With "les Jeux", or the Olympic Games, just around the corner, we discuss France's love of all sorts of other games, from board games, to video games, to betting... to marbles! We also dive into how the quintessentially French game of pétanque came to be.

Radio France Internationale

France deploys crisis cell to deal with fallout of major cyberattack

Cyberattacks of "unprecedented intensity" that targeted several French government institutions have been contained, the prime minister's office said Monday evening. The incident raises security concerns just months before Paris is to host the Olympic Games.

Radio France Internationale

Anger as police clear homeless from tents along banks of Seine

Security forces in Paris have evicted some 400 people living in tents along the River Seine as rising waters threatened to flood its banks. Rights groups say the move is part of a broader attempt to remove homeless and migrant populations ahead of the Olympic Games.

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