Paris police seal off Seine River ahead of Olympics

Paris 2024 Olympic flame arrives in the Paris Region

With the River Oise as a witness, the torch relay included the cities and communes of Pontoise, Saint-Prix, Cergy, Sarcelles, Argenteuil, Enghien-les-bains with its beautiful lake and Auvers-sur-Oise, a town famous for the artists who lived and worked there, among them the Dutch genius Vincent van Gogh, who died there in July 1890. At the Enghien-Soisy racecourse, the lighting of the cauldron took place in the late afternoon, led by the three-ti…

Sabrina Carpenter On Too Much ‘Espresso’ In 2024 Paris Olympics Ad

Sabrina Carpenter stars in 2024 Paris Olympics ad.

Paris police seal off Seine River ahead of Olympics

PARIS — A special kind of iron curtain came down across central Paris on Thursday, with the beginning of an Olympic anti-terrorism perimeter along the banks of the River Seine sealing off a kilometers-long area to Parisians and tourists who hadn't applied in advance for a pass.  The words on many lips were "QR code," the pass that grants access beyond snaking metal barriers that delineate the security zone set up to protect the Olympic Games' op…

CrowdStrike outage thrusts Paris Olympics partner into the spotlight

The massive CrowdStrike Holdings outage, which may be world’s largest ever, has underlined the critical importance of one of the lesser-known partners of the Paris Olympic Games, according to branding expert Jim Andrews.

Olympics 2024: Global IT outage strikes athletes arriving in Paris

Thousands of athletes have begun flying into the French capital ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics.