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With less than 100 days to go before the Paris 2024 Olympic games in France, concerns about pollution in Paris' Seine river are being raised.
The storm cut power to more than 300,000 households, according to the country's electricity supplier. Weather and civil protection officials, who had predicted winds of up to 75 mph (120 kilometres per hour) and heavy rain, placed the coast on a yellow alert as waves reached up to seven metres (23 feet) high. [123]
PARIS (Reuters) -Crowds braved queues at security checks and heavy downpours as they lined the banks of the Seine in Paris on Friday to watch an extravagant Olympics opening ceremony that featured ...
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In the town of Spa, also in Liège, 217 millimetres (8.5 in) of rain fell over 48 hours. [26] An empty passenger train derailed at Grupont when the track bed was washed out by floodwater, with debris strewn across the track. [27] The Charleroi–Namur–Liège line, and all railway lines in Belgium south east of that line, were closed. [28]
The Paris 2024 Olympic Games were set to be the hottest on record, an increase on the previous Games in Tokyo, during which athletes had already expressed health concerns. In June 2024, a report titled "Rings of Fire: Heat Risks at the 2024 Paris Olympics" documented concerns, and the IOC proposed mitigation measures.
Weather in Paris has disrupted Saturday's competition, as rain caused the men's street skateboarding event to be rescheduled for Monday. 2024 Paris Olympics: Rain postpones Saturday's first ...
A hot-air balloon brought an Olympic ring of fire into a rainy sky and singer Celine Dion belted from the Eiffel Tower as Paris kicked off its first Summer Olympics in a century Friday, with a ...