Man climbs Eiffel Tower at Olympics and gets arrested
At around 14:45 on Sunday afternoon, 11 August 2024, just hours before the closing ceremony of the Olympics in Paris, a man climbed up the Eiffel Tower without a harness …
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Artist JR On Carrying the Paris Olympic Flame Through the Louvre
JR, the French photographer and street artist, and Sandra Laoura, a French skier, hold the Olympic Flame on July 14. Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images The Paris Olympics don’t kick …
Paris’ Seine River has unsafe levels of E coli less than 2 months before Olympics
Water in France’s Seine River had unsafe elevated levels of E coli less than two months before swimming competitions are scheduled to take place in it during the Paris Olympics, …
Eiffel Tower reopens to visitors after six-day employee strike
The Eiffel Tower reopened to visitors on Sunday after a six-day closure because of striking employees demanding better maintenance of the historic landmark, showing traces of rust, and salary hikes. …
Paris 2024 Olympics medals unveiled, each with a little piece of the Eiffel Tower right in the middle
Paris — There’s another metal on offer for winners at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. In addition to the customary gold, silver and bronze, each winner’s medal will feature a …
Italian official calls tourists “vandals” after viral incidents: “No respect for our cultural heritage”
In Rome, a tourist scaled the baroque masterpiece that is the Trevi Fountain to fill up her water bottle just months after a British man carved his and his girlfriends’ …
2 American tourists found sleeping atop Eiffel Tower in Paris
Two American tourists were found sleeping off a heavy night in the heights of Paris’ Eiffel Tower on Monday after dodging security the night before, the monument’s operator said Tuesday. …