5 iconic sites hosting Paris Olympics events
Updated On: 22 July, 2024 03:01 PM IST | Mumbai | AFP
We look at five Paris Olympics sites set to wow ticket-holders and a global TV audience of billions during the 17-day extravaganza starting on July 26
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Tourists take photographs of the Eiffel Tower with the Olympic rings displayed on it, ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic games. Pics/AFP
The Paris Olympics have been designed to showcase the City of Light in all its splendour, with events taking place at iconic locations. We look at five sites set to wow ticket-holders and a global TV audience of billions during the 17-day extravaganza starting on July 26:
Eiffel Tower
The most famous of the Paris landmarks, the Eiffel Tower, will welcome beach volleyball. The action will take place in a temporary venue near the foot of the "Iron Lady." Next door, the Champs de Mars park at the foot of the tower will host judo and wrestling. Reviled by some Parisians when it was unveiled in 1889 for the World Fair by an engineer Gustave Eiffel, the Eiffel Tower has become the capital`s symbol. Besides being one of the world`s top tourist attractions, pulling in seven million visitors a year, it is also a working telecoms tower, used for radio and TV transmissions. Winners at the Paris Games will all go home with a small part of the iron colossus. Each medal will contain an 18g crumb of original iron, removed during renovations, melted down and reforged.
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