TAG: Paris 2024 Olympics
Anne Hidalgo’s vision of a greener Paris faces political reckoning
PARIS — Nearly 10 years ago, newly minted Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo made “a genuine energy and environmental transition” a cornerstone of her plans for the city.The Socialist politician stayed true to that platform — in the process becoming one of the most...
6 months ago
Paris Olympics fiasco looms as Seine (still) unsafe for swimming
PARIS — On Tuesday morning, athletes should have been thrashing down the River Seine in Paris, battling to come out on top of the Olympic triathlon's first leg: 1,500 meters of open water swimming.Instead, not a single swimmer was in sight.The reason? Onc...
2 months ago
Heatwave blanketing Olympics ‘impossible’ without climate change
The blistering temperatures engulfing athletes and fans at the Paris Olympics in recent days are connected to a month-long heat bender that would have been “virtually impossible” without man-made climate change, leading climate scientists have concluded. ...
2 months ago
Seine water quality ‘marginally acceptable’ at latest Olympics race, new samples show
PARIS — The Seine's water quality was satisfactory during the Olympics' triathlon relay race on Monday, the latest testing results revealed.During the race, the levels of E-coli bacteria in the river were measured at 418 colony-forming units (cfu) of E-co...
2 months ago
Saudi oil giant spends well over a billion on ‘sportswashing,’ new report says
Saudi Arabia is spending more than a billion dollars to sponsor global sporting events as it looks to burnish its reputation and assert itself as a global superpower, according to a new report out Wednesday.The report by think tank New Weather Institute r...
4 weeks ago