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The organizers have mostly succeeded in highlighting Paris' beauty during the Games. Beach volleyball was played near the famed Eiffel Tower. However, holding events on the filthy Seine River proved more difficult. The closing ceremony is scheduled to begin at 0030 IST (Monday) and continue slightly more than two hours. It will feature typical features such as the athlete parade and the presentation of the Olympic flag to the 2028 Los Angeles Games organizers.

Here is the list of award money athletes get for finishing on the podium in Olympics. Hong Kong and Singapore top the list for the highest cash payouts for Olympic victories.

Paris Olympics 2024 action is at its very last phase, with the penultimate day of action starting off in a few hours. On August 10, 39 gold medals will be up on offer for the athletes of respective nations, in a final bid to consolidate their positions in the Paris Olympics medal tally, which is seeing some massive ups and downs, as countries keep increasing their medal count.

2024 Paris Olympics, a stage where athletic prowess meets global attention, saw the German track star Alica Schmidt, often hailed as the “world’s sexiest athlete,” fall short of her Olympic dreams. Despite high expectations, Schmidt and her team were unable to secure a spot in the women’s 4×400-meter relay final, marking a disappointing end to her campaign.

Court of Arbitration for Sports will start hearing Indian wrestler Vinesh Phogat's appeal against her disqualification at the Paris Olympics today. Phogat's appeal includes a request for a joint silver medal after being found overweight following her semi-final victory in Paris. Senior advocate Haris Salve will represent Phogat during her hearing. The hearing is likely to start at 5:00 pm. Also Read: Catch all the live updates on Vinesh Phogat case hearing in CAS The 29-year-old wrestler missed the opportunity to compete for the gold after being disqualified for being overweight during the morning weigh-in on Wednesday. This followed her impressive performance the previous day, where she defeated the unbeaten Yui Susaki of Japan in her opening bout.

HCLTech's arm HCLSoftware plans to acquire 100 per cent stake in France-based software firm Zeenea SAS at a valuation of 24 million euros, in an effort to diversify its data and analytics business offerings. The all-cash deal is expected to be completed in September 2024, according to a regulatory filing by HCLTech. HCLSoftware Chief Product Officer Kalyan Kumar said the acquisition will enable the firm to offer a unified data intelligence solution that will power enterprises to discover, govern, connect, manage and better leverage data in their data engineering and GenAI journeys. «HCLSoftware Actian Data Platform has seen strong growth in Hybrid Data Management and Integration over the last few years. By adding metadata management, data catalog and governance capabilities, the customers would be able to consume these capabilities of the data platform,» the filing said.

apparatchiks in Beijing had seemingly not realised that the ensuing prosperity would turn their society into a liberal democracy, given time. Newly democratic Russia was also headed beyond history: it was planning an underwater gas pipeline to Germany, the home of Wandel durch Handel (change through trade). Even the head of its security service at the time of Kosovo, one Vladimir Putin, would denounce communism as “a blind alley".

Hunter Schafer, who plays Jules in «Euphoria,» shared insights about the status of Season 3 on the Call Her Daddy podcast. The show faces delays and challenges following the loss of key team members.

The popular series, which follows the quirky relationship between Ashley (Harriet Dyer) and Gordon (Patrick Brammall), revolves around their unexpected connection following a car accident and their care for an injured dog named Colin.

Paris is getting a colorful splash of Olympic creative spirit with nearly 30 vibrant street art pieces, popping up at bustling metro stations and airports and in front of city hall

Legal experts say a lawsuit stemming from the Titan submersible disaster felt inevitable, but winning a big judgment against the owner of the vessel could be very difficult

Paris Olympics 2024 is one of the most-talked about sporting event in the world right now, with some amazing ongoing Olympic action till now. The Games have entered its last leg and will soon be wrapping up the remaining major medal events from August 9.

Alysha Newman has addressed the critics of her OnlyFans presence amid a surge in her profile's popularity following her bronze medal win at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Newman, who gained viral fame for her celebratory twerking at the Stade de France, is embracing the newfound attention to her subscription-based fan page.

Paris Olympics 2024 host nation France will play Spain for football gold medal match on Friday. All European final will see both proud soccer playing nations seeking second Olympics Gold. France won two FIFA World Cups (1998, 2018), and became champions of Europe twice (1984, 2000). Spain have won Euro record four times (1964, 2008, 2012, and 2024). The reigning European Champions won the FIFA World Cup once (2010). Paris Olympics 2024 Gold Medal match between Spain and France will kick off at 12 pm (ET) on Friday, August 8.

The stock and crypto markets have been experiencing turbulence for several weeks, causing uncertainty among many investors. Despite this volatility, a new study released on August 8 by Bitpanda , Europe’s leading crypto broker, in collaboration with YouGov, a UK-based market research company, shows that young investors still believe in the potential of cryptocurrencies.

₹1,499 and goes up to ₹39,999 (quite steep as an offering from fast-fashion but accessible if you consider that Khanna’s couture garments are usually worth lakhs)—but also showcases a relaxed design vocabulary for India. At the same time, it doesn’t compromise on colour and craft, unlike the 2021 H&M x Sabyasachi collection—the first Indian designer collaboration—that was largely restricted to chintz overkill and often-repeated silhouettes. Khanna has used a little chikankari on an oversized jacket that you can wear from an office meeting to a party; kantha on a long shirt that’s perfect for a Sunday brunch; an elephant-eye print on a shirt-like jacket and lungi skirt that would work at an evening party; and hand-embroidered patchwork on a coat that will make heads turn.

pole vaulter Anthony Ammirati has now become a major sensation across the world after a small fiasco that made the world know his name, but for all the weird reasons. According to previous ET reports, Anthony Ammirati's 'private parts' touched the crossbar of the pole vault arena, when he was taking his final jump of the qualifying event.

IOA) decided to fly wrestler Antim Panghal and her support staff back due to a disciplinary breach during the ongoing Summer Games after she gave her Olympic Village accreditation to her sister. In a statement, the IOA announced that Antim and her support staff had breached disciplinary rules, as reported by the French authorities. «The Indian Olympic Association has decided to fly wrestler Antim and her support staff back after a disciplinary breach was brought to IOA's notice by the French authorities,» the IOA stated.

SocGen’s Q2 results are out. And while most reporting has focused on the feebleness of its retail performance or the moderate strength of its equities traders, one thing has mostly flown under the radar: the French bank may have dispensed with a senior executive whose division failed to make the cut.

France is in shock. BNP Paribas is acquiring Axa Investment Managers to create a new pan-European asset management firm with €1,500bn in assets under management and «powerful platforms of public and private assets.» The deal, which bankers from JPMorgan and Zaoui are advising Axa on according to Les Echos, won't close until 2025, thereby Axa's 2,400 people ample months to contemplate their fates. 

The young people who get an undergraduate internship at Blackstone might consider that they’ve pretty much won the lottery.  There are very few of them – the “summer analyst” class is no more than 150, but that includes people from MBAs and law school.  The private equity firm's 0.3% acceptance rate is lower than Citadel’s 0.5%, and they get paid somewhere in the region of $20,000 for ten weeks of work.