The Canadian women’s soccer team will play two friendlies against CONCACAF rivals Mexico in June before they travel to Paris to defend their Olympic gold medal.
Paris will face major disruption ahead of the Olympics opening ceremony along the Seine on July 26, as organisers ramp up security measures to safeguard the event, the city's police chief said on Thursday.
President Tony Estanguet said Tuesday that France is "ready" to welcome the world to the Olympic Games at the unveiling of Olympic rings at Terminal 1 of Charles de Gaulle Airport. (AP video by Patric
Many polls show that Parisians feel the Olympics are coming at a bad time, and the city's "often hard-to-please residents appear in no mood for a party yet," said AFP. The games will be held as France is undergoing political turmoil,
French anti-terrorism authorities have arrested a 16-year-old youth after he said on social media that he wanted to die a martyr at the Olympic Games in Paris this summer, a spokesperson said on Wednesday,
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo has even invited top officials, including President Emmanuel Macron, to swim in the Seine at an event dubbed "the big dive" in late June.
Canoe sprint champion Lisa Carrington became New Zealand's most decorated Olympian at the Tokyo Games and is not ruling out adding to her record medal haul at the Paris Olympics.
Safety inspectors have halted some of the construction work on the temporary stands in Versailles for the equestrian events during this year's Olympics in Paris as there is a risk of employees falling.