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It’s the season of clear targets, quick wins and instant applause, as the Olympics of 2024 kick off in Paris, a city aflutter with flags bearing their famous ‘rings of unity.’ Among other virtues, the Olympic Games offer us a contrast with economic frames, which have complex targets, slow wins and patchy applause. So much so that our heads can begin to spin if rings get run around what’s good for the economy, as if the data overload of every budget is not heavy enough.

Paris today with an audacious ceremony on the River Seine, the 117-strong Indian contingent begins their own audacious attempt at a first-ever double-digit medal haul. It may sound ambitious, but it’s not a pipe dream.

Inshallah, the 2024 action-horror disaster film Under Paris — the original French title, 'Sous la Seine' (Under the Seine) — will remain a fictional thrill as the Olympic Games opening ceremony unfolds today. This unprecedented event — it's the first time an opening ceremony is taking place outside a stadium, along Paris' iconic river — will feature over 200 delegations gliding down the river, with thousands cheering along the banks. In the Xavier Gens movie, Lilith, a tagged shortfin mako shark — usually found in temperate and tropical seas — finds its way into the freshwater river for 'revenge'. Mayhem follows, Paris turning into a battleground. On finding out that Lilith has entered pre-Olympic Paris, scientists request the Parisian authorities to postpone the triathlon event. The mayor — not Anne Hidalgo, the real mayor — insists on going ahead, stressing the event's importance for global visibility and the billions already spent. Without giving the film away, let's just say the Olympic triathlon event in Paris becomes a veritable bloodsport. But not to worry. Instead of a rampaging shark that makes Jaws look like Nibbles, the Seine will (surely) be graced with floats and fanfare. Free of the garbage that was reportedly floating around in it till a few weeks ago, the Seine should see swimmers safe. And, hopefully, friendly fins.

Workers have gone on strike at the five-star hotel in Paris where members of the International Olympic Committee are staying

The chief executive of Delta Air Lines expects flight cancellations and delays that resulted from a global technology breakdown last week to be resolved by Thursday

Celine Dion's high-profile comeback to the music world. Based on TMZ, Dion is set to receive $2 million for her visit and will only perform one song. The rumors concerning Dion's performance were initially reported by Variety.

Paris Olympics 2024' opening ceremony is scheduled in a few hours and right before it, the glimpses of the Olympic Village accommodations of the athletes are going viral on the Internet with many athletes giving their followers a room tour of what they would be calling home, until August 11.

Nita Ambani, a renowned philanthropist and founder of Reliance Foundation, has been unanimously re-elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) from India at the global olympic body's 142nd session in Paris.

sponsor for four years, starting with the Paris Olympics till the 2028 Los Angeles Games. The collaboration between BPCL, a Maharatna company, and IOA will also encompass the Commonwealth Games, Asian Games, Summer Youth Olympics, Winter Olympics, and Winter Youth Olympics.

Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets prices have always hogged the limelight. With the Eras Tour shows set to resume in August, here is the last chance to grab tickets in cheap price. Swift will perform across multiple cities in Europe. She will conclude the European leg with five concerts in London. One of Swift's shows will be at Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna on August 10. Fans can grab two tickets by spending just £10 (USD 12.92). Wowcher is offering the lucrative deal for Swift fans to witness the Vienna concert. One needs to visit Wowcher UK website for cheap tickets, as per a report in Mirror. Swift fans can also purchase Eras Tour Tickets from traditional websites. However, some ticket prices are ranging between £400 and £600, Mirror reported.

Mike Conley spent most of the 1980s ranked among the top triple jumpers in the world. So, heading into the US Olympic trials in ’88, there was very little thought given to the idea he wouldn’t finish in the top three and make the trip to Seoul. In a sport embedded inside an Olympic world where medals can be won and careers can be made by the most minuscule of fractions — of seconds or centimeters — what toppled Conley’s hopes had nothing to do with a measuring tape. It was a pair of baggy shorts, the likes of which he had never worn in a track meet before, that did him in. Conley recalls video replays that showed the breeze that was kicked up by the vented flaps on the sides of his shorts created a barely perceptible mark in the sand nearly a foot behind where he landed.

Armed Forces personnel are among the 117 Indian athletes who are all set to make the nation proud at the Paris Olympics, beginning July 26 this year. Among these 24 athletes, 22 are men, including star javelin thrower and Subedar Neeraj Chopra, and two are women, which marks the maiden participation of female service athletes at the Olympics, as per a press release from the Union Ministry of Defence. Neeraj, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medalist and World Athletics Championship gold medalist, will again vie for top honours as his participation in the Paris Olympics comes on the back of exceptional performances that earned him a gold medal each at the 2023 Asian Games, 2023 World Athletics Championships and 2024 Paavo Nurmi Games.

brands have signed sponsorship or partnership deals for the Paris Olympics, showing unprecedented interest in non-cricket sportspersons, with many keen to soft-block likely medallists. Radico Khaitan, Puma, Dream Sports, Amul, JSW Group and Adani Group are some major names associated with the Indian contingent bound for Paris. «This is the first time we are doing such an association… sports in India is no longer just about cricket,» said Abhishek Khaitan, MD of spirits brand Radico Khaitan. «We have signed up as official spirits partner for India House, to cater to global tourists.» India House, being set up by Reliance Foundation and the Indian Olympic Association in Paris, has been envisaged as a cultural centre. Athletes Consistently Visible

Next week’s Summer Olympics in Paris will be the first in which equal numbers of female and male athletes participate. The milestone is owed in large part to an International Olympic Committee working group started in 2018 that established specific benchmarks for achieving gender parity.

UFC schedule for July 20 Fight Night is out now and the event in Las Vegas will be headlined by Amanda Lemos versus Virna Jandiroba Women's Strawweight MMA fight. UFC Main card for July 20 fight night will also include fight between Brad Tavares and Junyong Park in middleweight category. Steve Garcia will fight Seungwood Choi in featherweight category. Kurt Holobaugh will fight Kaynan Kruschewsky in lightweight category. Cody Durden will fight Bruno Silva in flyweight category. Dooho Choi will fight Bill Alegeo in featherweight category. UFC Fight Night for July 20 will be streamed on ESPN+. UFC Fight Night for July 20 main card will start at 8 pm (ET) on Saturday.

Netflix has been unveiled. The latest season of the popular show will drop in the OTT streaming platform in two parts. «Emily in Paris» Season 4 Part 1 is scheduled to be released on August 15 this year. The second part will premier on September 12, 2024, as per a report on Dexerto. «Emily in Paris» Season 4 cast includes Lily Collins, Ashley Park, Lucas Bravo, Camille Razat, Philippine Leroy, Samuel Arnold, Bruno Gouery, William Abadie, and Lucien Laviscount.

IOC president, Pierre de Coubertin, once said women competing in the Games would be «impractical, uninteresting, unaesthetic and improper.» Over a century later, the 2024 Paris Olympic Games are targeting gender parity in the same city where women made their Olympic debut in 1900. The IOC set a goal of a 50-50 split among the more than 11,000 men and women, including backups, registered to compete from July 26 to Aug. 11. However, the latest numbers from the IOC suggest organizers might fall just short of that target. Slightly more medal events for men than women. There is still a slight edge toward men among the 329 medal events at the Paris Olympics. The IOC has said there are 157 men's events, 152 women's events and 20 mixed-gender events.

EMBRUN, France—By now, Tadej Pogacar has memorized every twist and turn of the Col d’Eze, the winding road that rises from behind the port of Nice to the hills above Monaco. It’s where he goes on coffee rides, where he flies past unsuspecting amateurs, and where he trains to win the Tour de France. The two-time champion is such a fixture on the Col d’Eze that cyclists in the cafés below trade Pogacar sightings like celebrity-spotters in the bars of swanky hotels.