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  China will send 405 athletes, including 42 Olympic champions, to the upcoming Paris Olympic Games as a 716-member delegation was officially announced here on Saturday. The delegation includes 136 male and 269 female athletes, competing in 30 sports at the Games to be officially opened on July 26.↑Wang Yidi, Wang Manyu, Chen Meng and Sun…

A roadmap to follow for water polo at the Paris OlympicsJuly 12, 2024, 4:34 AM ET• 3 min readA roadmap to follow for the water polo competition at the Paris Games:Athletes to Watch—Maggie Steffens, United States: The decorated attacker was banged up at the Tokyo Olympics, but she still helped the U.S. to an unprecedented third consecutive gold…

The French government has put thousands of homeless immigrants on buses and sent them out of Paris ahead of the Olympics. The immigrants said they were promised housing elsewhere, only to end up living on unfamiliar streets far from home or flagged for deportation.President Emmanuel Macron of France has promised that the Olympic Games will…

NEW DELHI: Indian men's hockey team has spelt out its success mantra for the Paris Olympics - defend to win, hunt for goals on counterattack and concede fewer penalty corners.The team tasted success at the Hangzhou Asian Games riding on head coach Craig Fulton's gameplan and the Harmanpreet Singh-led side would like to continue with the same…

<!-- -->The landing site will float on the Seine near the Austerlitz railway station in southeastern Paris.Paris, France: France's government on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for construction of a floating landing pad on the River Seine for flying taxis set to be shown off during the Paris Olympics.An official decree said that the pad "can be…

Long jumper Jeswin Aldrin qualified for Paris Olympics through world ranking. ReutersLong jumper Jeswin Aldrin and 5000m runner Ankita Dhyani on Sunday became the latest Indian athletes to qualify for the Paris Olympics 2024 as they made the cut through the world ranking quota. The Indian athletics team is now set to have 30 members.Long jump…

No wonder swimming in the Seine has been illegal for 100 years. For the Olympics and Paralympics, which will have at least three major swimming events, the city spent €1.4 million cleaning up the river, most of it on a new stormwater cistern under Gare de Austerlitz railway station, a concrete tank, the size of 20 Olympic swimming pools,…

Paris' famed Moulin Rouge cabaret got its red windmill back Friday during a special ceremony that featured can-can dancing on the plaza outside. The mill's huge sails inexplicably collapsed after a show in April at the iconic venue, an emblem of the surrounding Montmartre neighborhood. Part of the cabaret's illuminated sign…

France's basketball player Victor Wembanyama, who plays for the NBA San Antonio Spurs, smiles while speaking during media day at the French National Institute of Sport and Physical Education, in Vincennes, outside Paris, Thursday, June 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus) The 10,500 athletes who will compete at the Paris Games include first-time…

The four-time Grand Slam singles champion will now prepare to represent Japan at her second Olympic Games on July 26.Naomi Osaka has rapidly switched her focus to the Paris Olympics after a chastening early exit from Wimbledon at the hands of American Emma Navarro. The Japanese superstar, playing at the All England Club for the first time since…