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Paris 2024 Olympics closing ceremony: updates from star-studded finale – live

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 11 August - 17:03

Closing ceremony in Paris due to start at 8pm BST
USA win final event and pip China to top medal table
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C’est fini. Well almost.

Can you believe it was only two weeks ago that Paris 2024 got under way ? So much SPORT has happened since that it feels like a lifetime ago that the eyes of the sporting world were trained on a somewhat mizzly and murky Seine and the athlete flotillas.

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On a fait un cauchemar: et si les JO ne s’arrêtaient jamais?

news.movim.eu / Mediapart · Sunday, 11 August - 15:14

Comme les autres grands projets, les Jeux olympiques ne sont pas qu’un événement passager mais une manière d’exercer le pouvoir: sans vote, sans transparence sur les dépenses d’argent public, avec des promesses écologiques intenables.

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Family whose daughter died in Channel say they will attempt crossing again

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 11 August - 14:07

Amira Al Shammari says they have no other options as she describes horror of 21-year-old child’s death

A mother from a stateless Arab minority say she and her family have no choice but to try to cross the Channel again despite the death last month of her eldest daughter on a previous attempt.

Dina Al Shammari, 21, was travelling with her parents and three teenage siblings when she was crushed to death in an overcrowded dingy off the coast of Calais on 28 July.

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Postcards from Paris: iconic scenes at the Olympic Games

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 11 August - 13:48

Our photographer Tom Jenkins has toured the capital and visited some of its most renowned spots during the Games

When the Paris Olympics chose the slogan “Games wide open”, it was about more than just bringing sport out of stadiums and on to city-centre streets.

Creating temporary venues in astonishing settings – from beach volleyball at the Eiffel Tower to skateboarding at the Place de la Concorde – allowed France to avoid the cumbersome “white elephant” building projects of the past, and present a greener Games.

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Two people die attempting to cross Channel in dinghy

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 11 August - 13:15

About 50 people were rescued by helicopter on Sunday morning, French authorities have said

Two people died attempting to cross the Channel in a dinghy on Sunday morning, according to the French authorities, bringing the death toll since mid-July to at least nine.

The maritime prefecture for the Channel in Calais issued a brief statement confirming the deaths and have said that Jacques Billant, the prefect of Pas-de-Calais, was going to the scene to supervise the rescue operations.

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Paris 2024 Olympics: lifts, laughs and love on day 16 – in pictures

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 11 August - 13:10

As the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad draws to a close, we take a look at of the best images from day 16 in Paris

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How wraparound shades won the gold medal for fashion at the Paris Olympics

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 11 August - 11:00

Trendsetting sunglasses have been ubiquitous at the Games and everywhere else this summer, with athletes, British royalty and A-list celebrities all rocking the look

It is not often that the superstar celebrities of music, sport, fashion and royalty all agree on one look, but summer 2024 is the exception. Wraparound sports sunglasses have been centre stage a t Glastonbury, the Olympics and everywhere in between.

More than 2,000 Olympic athletes wore Oakley sunglasses at this year’s Games. Some were chosen to wear the brand’s latest innovations, such as the revolutionary QNTM Kato frames, which, true to brand, have been designed to fit as close to the face as possible and block out the discomfort of peripheral light: the wraparound style.

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‘Sometimes you really have to let go’: can Olympians embrace retirement?

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 11 August - 07:00

Alice Dearing, the first Black swimmer to represent Team GB, ended her career in April – and has some advice for those retiring after the Paris Olympics

Alice Dearing knew she would retire if she failed to qualify for the Paris Olympics. So when things began to go “catastrophically wrong” for the 27-year-old Team GB swimmer in the middle of a qualifying event earlier this year, she was forced to confront not only the demise of her dream of Paris, but the end of her career.

Dearing, who made history as the first Black female swimmer to represent Team GB at Tokyo 2020, officially announced her retirement in April. The decision was not easy: “It’s a challenge for athletes because you want that high,” she said. “My whole point of trying to go to Paris was that I just wanted a better result [than] Tokyo. To finish on probably one of the worst races of my career was a bit of a weird one.”

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Macron has been hugging France’s heroes as though he dare not let the Olympics go | Angelique Chrisafis

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Sunday, 11 August - 05:00

Medal success has offered the president welcome weeks of respite in his country’s fraught political climate – but what happens when the athletes go home?

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, is famed for his enthusiastic hugging of sports stars – as the footballer Kylian Mbappé can attest. Macron walked on to the pitch, somewhat awkwardly pulled Mbappé to his chest and patted his head to console him after defeat to Argentina in the last World Cup.

But at the Paris Olympics, Macron’s touchy-feely approach to the nation’s athletes has exceeded anything that had gone before.