Paris 2024 chief wants Games 'to make history'
After two Games clouded by Covid-19 restrictions, Paris 2024 is looking to launch a new momentum for the sporting extravaganza, promising an Olympic "light at the end of the tunnel".
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Olympics-Paris 2024 to be ‘light at the end of the tunnel’ says next Games chief
BEIJING: After two Games clouded by COVID-19 restrictions, Paris 2024 are looking to launch a new momentum for the sporting extravaganza, promising an Olympic “light at the end of the tunnel.” One hundred years after France last hosted the Summer Olympics amid the post-World War One Années Folles (crazy years) period, Paris aims to be the stage for carefree Games as they return to Europe for the first time in a decade. “We want to take the Games out of the stadiums, with a ceremony out in the city and a marathon open to the general public,” Tony Estanguet, a triple canoeing Olympic champion who was France’s flag-bearer at the 2008 Beijing Games opening ceremony, told Reuters.
Olympics-Paris 2024 to be 'light at the end of the tunnel' says next Games chief
(Makes clear in para 14 that three of the four venues are within walking distance)
Paris 2024 to be 'light at the end of the tunnel' says next Games chief
BEIJING : After two Games clouded by COVID-19 restrictions, Paris 2024 is looking to launch a new momentum for the sporting extravaganza, promising an Olympic "light at the end of the tunnel".
Seattle Seahawks wide receiver DK Metcalf wants a place in the 100 metres for Team USA at the Paris Olympics.
NFL star DK Metcalf has vowed to earn a place at the Paris Olympics in 2024 after missing out on a place in the Team USA athletics team for Tokyo last year. The Seattle Seahawks wide receiver has long been known for his pace, with his speed going viral a couple of years ago when he ran the entire length of the pitch to catch an opponent in an NFL match.
Novak Djokovic sets sights on Paris Olympics, wants to return to Australia
Tennis world number one Novak Djokovic said he has unfinished business at the Olympics and will be gunning for gold at Paris 2024, adding that he is keen to return to Australia despite his deportation this year. Djokovic's quest for an Olympic gold in Tokyo ended in a semi-final defeat to Germany's Alexander Zverev, marring an otherwise stellar 2021 in which he won the first three Grand Slams and reached the final of the fourth. A day after his loss to Zverev, he went down to Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta in the bronze medal match to return empty-handed from Japan.
Tennis-Djokovic sets sights on Paris Olympics, wants to return to Australia
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Tennis world number one Novak Djokovic said he has unfinished business at the Olympics and will be gunning for gold at Paris 2024, adding that he is keen to return to Australia despite his deportation this year.
Djokovic sets sights on Paris Olympics, wants to return to Australia
BELGRADE: Tennis world number one Novak Djokovic said he has unfinished business at the Olympics and will be gunning for gold at Paris 2024, adding that he is keen to return to Australia despite his deportation this year.