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FILE - Brigitte Henriques, French National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSF) president delivers her speech during a press conference in Paris, Tuesday, April 4, 2023. The president of France's Olympic committee resigned unexpectedly Thursday May 25, 2023, the latest shake-up for French sports and the country's preparations to host the Summer Olympics in Paris next year. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
France's first female Olympic president resigns

May. 25, 2023 07:07 AM EDT

A Seine river police boat makes its way on the Seine river in front of the Eiffel Tower, on the route of the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony, Tuesday, May 23, 2023 in Paris. France's government, the organizing committee chief for Paris 2024 and the French capital's mayor signed an 11-page security protocol that for the first time publicly laid out some of the gritty details of their planning to shield the unprecedented July 26, 2024 opening ceremony from the threats of terrorism, drone attacks and other risks for the massive crowds and 10,500 athletes. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Fans will need to pre-register for free tickets to Paris' gargantuan 2024 Olympic opening ceremony

By John Leicester May. 23, 2023 09:44 AM EDT

Assistant of French chef Charles Guilloy of Sodexo Live prepares a green lentil dahl, with skyr coriander and a corn tuile dish during media conference of Sodexo Live a food and management service group in Paris, Tuesday, May 9, 2023. The company tasked with serving 40,000 meals a day at the Olympic Village unveiled Tuesday some of the items on the menu of a restaurant that plans to serve food prepared by some of France’s most-renowned chefs. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Baguettes but no wine: Olympians to eat gourmet in Paris

By Sylvie Corbet And Oleg Cetinic May. 09, 2023 03:10 PM EDT

People take a photographs of the Olympic rings in front of the Paris City Hall, in Paris, Sunday, April 30, 2023. Olympic contestation is picking up online and starting to spill onto streets, because protesters are linking the Paris Games to unpopular pension reforms pushed through by French President Emmanuel Macron. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
Next frontier in France's protests: Fake Olympic volunteers

By John Leicester May. 03, 2023 02:53 AM EDT

Filipino FIBA ambassador LA Tenorio, second from left, shows the number for USA national basketball team during the FIBA World Cup draw 2023 in Quezon city, Philippines on Saturday April 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Josefino de Guzman)
USA will open Basketball World Cup against New Zealand

By Tim Reynolds Apr. 29, 2023 09:41 AM EDT

Babou Sene makes his way on his wheelchair through the crowd Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at the Gare de Lyon train station, in Paris. An influential disabled rights group in France is boycotting a conference on disability Wednesday with French President Emmanuel Macron, amid frustration at dismal accessibility for people in wheelchairs and with other mobility challenges -- and years of unmet promises to make things better ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games. On the network of 309 stations of subway system, only one line with 13 stations is fully accessible. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Protests for disabled rights in France before Paris Olympics

By John Leicester Apr. 26, 2023 06:42 AM EDT

The access to a subway station is made possible only for pedestrians, Monday, April 24, 2023 in Paris. A rebuke from Europe's foremost human rights body and the looming deadline of what's billed as fully accessible Paris Olympics in 2024 are together upping pressure on President Emmanuel's government to better protect the rights of people with disabilities, as the French leader gathers campaigners together Wednesday at the Elysee Palace for France's first national conference on disabilities since the COVID-19 pandemic (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
France under pressure over disabled rights as Olympics loom

By John Leicester Apr. 25, 2023 06:37 AM EDT

Senior technician Omar Bach-Rais takes water samples from the River Seine for analysis as Aurelie Lemaire, a microbiology research intern looks on, in Paris, Wednesday, April 5, 2023. A costly and complex clean-up is resuscitating the River Seine just in time for it to play a starring role in the 2024 Paris Olympics. The city and its region are rushing to make the Seine's murky waters swimmable, so it can genuinely live up to its billing as the world’s most romantic river. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
Fancy a dip? An Olympic reboot for Paris' toxic River Seine

By John Leicester Apr. 11, 2023 02:22 AM EDT

FILE - A display of the Olympic rings is set up on Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower, after the vote in Lima, Peru, awarding the 2024 Games to the French capital, in Paris, France, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. A proposed French law for the 2024 Paris Olympics that critics contend will open the door for privacy busting video surveillance technology in France and elsewhere in Europe faces an important hurdle Tuesday March 28, 2023 with lawmakers set to vote on it. The bill would legalize the temporary use of so-called "intelligent" surveillance systems to safeguard the Games and Paralympics. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
Lawmakers back Paris Olympic law despite surveillance fears

By John Leicester Mar. 28, 2023 04:06 AM EDT

IOC (International Olympic Committee) President Thomas Bach, right, stands in the finish area of the alpine ski, men's World Championship downhill, in Courchevel, France, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)
Nations: No clarity on neutrality, no Olympics for Russia

By Eddie Pells Feb. 20, 2023 08:00 AM EST

Germany's Alexander Schmid, right, celebrates winning the men's World Championship parallel, in Meribel, France, Wednesday Feb. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)
Norwegian skiers collect 3 of 6 medals in parallel at worlds

By Andrew Dampf Feb. 15, 2023 09:35 AM EST

Norway's Timon Haugan, left, and United States' Tommy Ford compete in the final of an alpine ski, mixed team parallel event, at the World Championships, in Meribel, France, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
US beats Norway to win team event at Alpine skiing worlds

Feb. 14, 2023 08:20 AM EST

FILE - United States' Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women's World Cup slalom, in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, Sunday, Jan. 29, 2023. A quick glance at the top female skiers to watch for at the world championships in Courchevel and Meribel, France, starting Feb. 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Piermarco Tacca, File)
Shiffrin, Goggia and Gut-Behrami are the favorites at worlds

By Andrew Dampf Feb. 03, 2023 07:44 AM EST

FILE - Austria's Vincent Kriechmayr is airborne during an alpine ski, men's World Cup downhill race, in Bormio, Italy, Wednesday, Dec.28, 2022. Once known as skiing’s “Wunderteam” for its domination of the ski racing circuit, Austrian men and women have both been struggling for results this season while Austrian coaches are lending their expertise to other nations. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati, File)
Austrian ski team aims to rediscover its magic at worlds

By Eric Willemsen Feb. 02, 2023 05:25 AM EST

Scandal hits another Olympic sport in France -- handball

By John Leicester Jan. 25, 2023 09:51 AM EST
PARIS (AP) — The head of France's professional handball league resigned Wednesday after pleading guilty to child corruption and child pornography charges — the...

2024 Tour de France to end in Nice due to Paris Olympics

Dec. 01, 2022 09:09 AM EST
NICE, France (AP) — The 2024 Tour de France will end on the French Riviera instead of the French capital because of the Olympic Games. The finish of...

Sunny Choi, B-Girl Sunny, poses for a portrait during the media day for Red Bull BC One World Finals, Friday, Nov. 11, 2022, in New York. The International Olympic Committee announced two years ago that breaking would become an official Olympic sport, a development that divided the breaking community between those excited for the larger platform and those concerned about the art form’s purity. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
Break it down: Dancers begin charting path to Paris Olympics

By Aaron Morrison Nov. 22, 2022 02:12 PM EST

Paris 2024 organizers say budget likely to increase

Nov. 22, 2022 11:24 AM EST
PARIS (AP) — The operating budget for the 2024 Paris Olympics is expected to go up by 10%, in part because of high inflation, organizers said Tuesday. ...

Mascots of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, left, and Paralympics Games, a Phrygian cap, pose during a preview in Saint Denis, outside Paris, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. The soft bright red cap, also known as a liberty cap, is an updated version of a conical hat worn in antiquity in places such as Persia, the Balkans, Thrace, Dacia and Phrygia, where the name originates, in modern day Turkey. It later became a symbol of the pursuit of liberty in the French Revolution and is still worn by the figure of Marianne, the national personification of France since that time. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
China-made Paris Olympics mascots fuel criticism in France

Nov. 17, 2022 06:58 AM EST

FILE - Mascots of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, right, and Paralympics Games, a Phrygian cap, jump during a preview in Saint Denis, outside Paris, on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. Izzy, the much-hated blob that represented the 1996 Atlanta Games has been supplanted by the mascot for the Paris Olympics — a Phrygian cap. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)
Column: Izzy's long run as worst Olympic mascot is over

By Paul Newberry Nov. 15, 2022 06:24 PM EST