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PARIS — Fighter jets roared over Paris on Sunday as the annual Bastille Day celebrations coincided with the arrival of the Olympic flame here 12 days before the start of the Games. This year’s ...
the Olympics in Paris," Henry told reporters of his star turn. "Just extraordinary." The flame remained in the capital Monday for a second day, making a stop with some can-can dancers outside the ...
Carried by their chief equestrian, Colonel Thibaut Vallette, former gold medallist at the Rio Games, the flame was then entrusted to some twenty third grade students from Saint-Denis. Thierry Henry, ...
Then, once the Olympic torch arrives at the host ... roughly eight hours south of Paris off the shore of the Balearic Sea. "Throughout the torch relay, the flame announces the Olympic Games ...
PARIS — The lighting of the Olympic torch was a celebration of some of the biggest stars of French sports, both known to the world and not: Zinedine Zidane, the talisman of the France team that ...
PARIS (AP/NEXSTAR) — The Olympic cauldron that made a stunning ... new for Paris Olympics Organizers said the electric flame uses 40 LED spotlights “to illuminate the cloud created by 200 ...
Three drag queens were among the 10,000 torchbearers who had the opportunity to hold the Olympic flame as it started in Greece, passed through French territories and made its way to Paris.
Paris has hosted an extra-special guest on France's national holiday; the Olympic flame. Helping to light up the city's military parade for Bastille Day on Sunday, hundreds of people carried the ...