Paris 2024 Olympics: a guide to the Games

The opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympics will be held along the Seine on Friday 26 July, but the sporting action kicks off 48 hours earlier. There is preliminary stage competition in football, ... Read More

The Olympics are usually a sustainability disaster. Can Paris be different?

Workers build stands for the upcoming Summer Olympics in Paris, on the Champ-de-Mars just beside the Eiffel Tower on April 1. (Thomas Padilla/AP) Organizers of the Paris Olympics have pledged that ... Read More

Paris Olympics on a collision course with French workers’ summer holidays

Don’t mess with the French when it comes to their summer holidays. Known traditionally as les grandes vacances, the month-long August break is especially precious in a country that believes ... Read More

Paris Olympics medals production hit by strikes and protests

“Production of the medals is not blocked,” the French ... to NBC News. NBC Universal, Inc. Already set with a piece of the Eiffel Tower, the medals for this summer’s Paris Olympics will ... Read More

Paris Olympics 2024: Your ultimate guide

The 2024 Olympics will be in Paris, France. It is the third time the French capital has hosted the summer Games, the first being in 1900 and the second in 1924, exactly 100 years ago. For the ... Read More

Paris Olympics 2024: Top 100 athletes to watch at the Summer Olympics

Paris Olympics is 100 days away and NBCOlympics is running through the top 100 athletes you should know ahead of the Opening Ceremony, including Simone Biles, Victor Wembanyama ... Read More

France Bracing for Cyberattacks During Summer Olympics

French officials are visiting ... Barnes Reporting from Washington The Summer Olympics and tensions over the war in Ukraine are likely to make Paris a tempting target for a variety of hacking ... Read More

French split over whether Paris ready to host 2024 Summer Olympics

PARIS — More than half of the French believe Paris won't be ready to host the Olympics this ... is ready for the Summer Games and 57% of those on right say it's not. The results come as France ... Read More

Paris Olympics: River Seine pollution could cancel triathlon swimming

The Olympics ... California news, weather forecasts and entertainment stories to your inbox. Sign up for NBC LA newsletters. “We can postpone for rainy conditions,” Paris 2024 President ... Read More

Paris Olympics on a collision course with French workers’ summer holidays

The government has already bowed to some demands, promising to pay bonuses of between €500 (£428) and €1,500 to civil servants working directly for the Paris Olympics this summer. Read More

Paris Olympics on a collision course with French workers’ summer holidays

However, this year will be different as tens of thousands of public sector workers will be asked to delay their holidays and work overtime as Paris hosts its first summer Olympics for 100 years. Given ... Read More