A terrorist attack of 2015 that left her city angry and heartbroken persuaded Paris’s mayor, Anne Hidalgo, to campaign for the Olympic Games. “I said
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Top Chinese Swimmers Tested Positive for Banned Drug, Then Won Olympic Gold
Twenty-three top Chinese swimmers tested positive for the same powerful banned substance seven months before the Tokyo Olympic Games in 2021 but were allowed to
Macron Says Booksellers Can Stay Put During Olympic Games
Gold-leafed books with engravings, 200-year-old leather-bound books, books so rare and precious they are wrapped carefully in cellophane before being nestled into place inside an
Russian Figure Skaters Will Get Olympic Bronze After Valieva Disqualification
International skating’s governing body on Tuesday stripped Russia of its victory in the team figure skating event at the 2022 Beijing Olympics and awarded the
Oleg Protopopov, Who Skated With His Wife to Olympic Gold, Dies at 91
Oleg Protopopov, who, with his wife, Ludmila Belousova, revolutionized pairs figure skating in the 1960s with a balletic style, and who twice won Olympic gold
Olympic Swimming in the Seine? How Paris Is Remaking a River.
PARIS — An electric delivery boat pushed up the Seine, past the former palaces and elegant museums and under the low-slung stone and metal bridges