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Nov 9, 2024 | nst.com.my | Deborah Claude - |Deborah Claude

SWIMMER Florent Manaudou is feeling glum, French MPs despair over a plummeting sports budget and the Eiffel Tower has lost its Olympic rings. Two months after the flame went out on the glittering Paris Olympics and Paralympics, the French capital is in the grip of a bout of post-Games blues. Swimming superstar Leon Marchand, a four-time gold medallist, continues to impress in pools across the globe, but for his teammate Manaudou, the return to everyday life has proved difficult.

Jul 22, 2024 | nst.com.my | Deborah Claude |Deborah Claude -

The seven-year odyssey of the Paris Olympics should reach shore after a spectacular but hopefully serene opening cruise down the Seine on Friday at the end of a voyage that has survived rocky political moments. Following the horse-trading to win the Games, came the French infighting over how to host them. Paris was not sure it wanted to risk another rebuff after losing its 2005 bid for the 2012 Games to a London bid that the French believed inferior.