Fury as President Macron reveals the new โcontemporary gestureโ for cathedral devastated by 2019 fireIn the wake of the April 2019 fire that devastated Notre Dame, the French president Emmanuel Macron promised that the monument would be rebuilt with a …
The love-in between Keir Starmer and Lula centers on climate and trade. Just don’t mention Ukraine.
Experts fear tough rules for the art world โ meant to root out criminals โย will send business to New York and Hong Kong.
Rectangular structure installed as 18th-century masterpiece undergoes essential maintenanceOne of the first things American students Fiona Hastings and Olivia Nieporte did as they visited Rome for the first time was venture to the Trevi fountain to par…
We’ve pulled together a handy list of European safe spaces if you need to eject from America after Tuesday’s vote.
Former Sheffield United defender George Baldock is found dead in a swimming pool at his house in Athens.
Body-covering swimsuits are prohibited in majority of pools across the country. Two women complained about the restriction in Antwerp.
Everything you need to know about Ursula von der Leyen’s team for her second term.
Sam Farrow, from Wigan, swam 45.2-mile length of lake in 22h 48m and says she is in โcomplete shockโA British endurance swimmer is believed to have broken a world record for the fastest swim across Lake Geneva.Sam Farrow, 31, from Wigan, swam the lengt…
The disruption is another hiccup for Parisโs efforts to clean up the river for future public swimming, which had been one of Parisโs most ambitious promises ahead of hosting the Olympics and Paralympics this summer.
Venice film festival docudrama September 5 about TV crew that covered the 1972 Olympics crisis has lessons for the smartphone era, says its directorThe 1972 Munich Olympics were the first to be broadcast live by global satellite from continent to conti…
By entrenching itself in small towns,
Alternative for Germany is breaking through the firewall designed to keep it out of power.
With rain forecast for Paris, concerns about the River Seine’s water quality has prompted a change to the schedule of the swimming leg of the Paralympic triathlon, organisers said Thursday. The swimming part of the event will take place on September 1…
‘Beaches of Italy’ (5/6). Between the local tradition of the ‘birro,’ the beach playboy and an assertive masculine aesthetic inherited from fascism, visiting the Adriatic coast is more about a spectacle than swimming, in a ballet of appearances in the …
Getting the Seine ready for triathletes was hard. Getting it ready for the public by next year may be impossible.
The Guardianโs picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading…
FRANCE 24 takes a look at the highlights of the Paris Olympics as the Games drew to a close following Sunday’s closing ceremony. Some of the most memorable moments from the 16-day event include athletes swimming in the Seine, fencing in the Grand Pala…
Bringing more celebrities into political coverage could make it livelier โ and perhaps even more informative.
Alice Dearing, the first Black swimmer to represent Team GB, ended her career in April โ and has some advice for those retiring after the Paris OlympicsAlice Dearing knew she would retire if she failed to qualify for the Paris Olympics. So when things …
The runner, who has set a new British record, only took up sport again to stay fit during pandemicGeorgia Bell, an occasional runner during lockdown who made it to the Olympic final of the womenโs 1500m, set a new British record to take bronze as a rus…
Lazar Dukic, from Serbia, was competing in Marine Creek Lake on Thursday when he disappeared under the water.
New data showed potentially harmful bacteria levels during the recent triathlon relay.
The Catalan separatist leader went from yesterday’s man to action hero.
Lazar Dukic, from Serbia, was competing in Marine Creek Lake on Thursday when he disappeared under the water.
If Brussels was in charge of the Olympic Games, this is how it’d look.
The women’s marathon swimming event at Paris 2024 has gone ahead as planned despite ongoing concerns over water quality in the River Seine.
Anne Hidalgo blamed the far right for stoking divisions in French society.
The women’s marathon swimming event at Paris 2024 has gone ahead as planned despite ongoing concerns over water quality in the River Seine.
The pollution levels in the Paris river’s murky waters have come under scrutiny during the Olympics, with several swimming competitions held in the river.
The Seine is too dirty to swim in, so we need alternatives and fast!
Paris Olympics latest. France seek to cement their position in the medal table top spots with crunch events in football and swimming.
The Paris Olympics initially delayed the race because of a bacteria spike in the famously toxic river, before moving ahead on Wednesday.
City officials say they have โreversed the tide of historyโ thanks to completion of ยฃ1.2bn sewerage systemFrench city officials have hailed a โhistoric dayโ after the Olympic triathlon competitions were held in the River Seine just a day after it was d…
In todayโs newsletter: The government has spent โฌ1.6bn improving the river, but an ancient sewage system and the climate are muddying the watersโข Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning.An ambitious project to clean up the Rive…
With the men’s triathlon postponed, the political dream of Olympic swimming in the Seine could go down the drain โ literally.
Parisians and visitors tell the BBC whether they would take a dip in the River Seine.
Organisers claim they are confident the levels will improve, but are there alternatives to swimming in the Seine?
Menโs triathlon race pushed back to Wednesday after heavy rain increased levels of E.coli
The pop star introduced Attal to her โfiancรฉโ during the Olympics.
The Paris Olympics are already experiencing their first faux pas, ranging from bad food to a mix up of countries.
Fencing, table tennis and gymnastics are among some of the events on show as we look at some of the best images from day two. Continue reading…
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a famous dip in the river less than two weeks before Olympic events were set to start, hoping to prove that the infamously polluted waterway was clean enough to host swimming competitions.
Hope is not lost, 2028 could be your year!
Olympic swimming and triathlon events can now take place in the Seine, which now meets European bathing water standards, an NGO controlling water quality confirmed, following massive cleaning efforts by the French authorities and a spell of dry weather.
Imre Barabรกs and Mรกtรฉ Hartmann were announced winners having completed the swim in a tie- 1 hour, 1 minute, 54 seconds.
Daily air raid sirens cannot deter the fighting spirit of Dniproโs young athletes determined to give their all in ParisOleksandr Zheltyakov gazes across the pool and points towards the hundreds of yellow seats that run along its flank. He has cast his …
Money, power, attention: Youโll need a strategy to stop Eurobubble high life from sullying your soul.
We hand out gold medals and wooden spoons to the French capital.
Hidalgoโs long-promised dive into the murky waters have become a running joke amongst Parisians.
Anne Hidalgo fulfils pledge after cleanup operation makes water quality safe enough to host events at Games It has been the dream and promise of Paris mayors for decades and a nightmare for Olympic organisers: could the Seine be cleaned up enough to sw…
The Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo, swam in the long-polluted Seine, fulfilling a promise to show the river was clean enough to host open swimming competitions during the 2024 Olympics. The opening ceremony kicks off in nine days Continue reading…
The Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo will swim in the Seine to show it’s clean for the Paris Olympics’ outdoor swimming events. Despite a โฌ1.4 billion investment to prevent sewage leaks, the Seine’s water quality remains questionable, repeatedly failing te…
Host France’s flagbearers at the Paris Games’ opening ceremony on the River Seine will be former Olympic swimming champion Florent Manaudou and discus thrower Melina Robert-Michon, it was reported on Thursday. The July 26 opening ceremony is due to br…
Itโs already mocked as a middle-class obsession โ so what will the eye-rollers make of the luxury version, complete with bell tent, tartan blankets and matching Dryrobes?
France election results | Polluted rivers | Buckwheat for the bees | Whereโs summer? | Winning at sportRegarding the surprise election results in France (Report, 7 July), it was always said that in the first electoral round the French voted with their …
With just three weeks to go before the opening of the Paris Olympics, the water quality in the Seine river finally seems to have improved, with toxic bacteria coming down to acceptable limits, the Paris mayorโs office said in a statement Thursday, cit…
The river Seine is still failing water quality tests one month before the Paris Olympics when it is scheduled to host the open-water swimming competition and the swimming leg of the triathlon, results showed Friday. The latest tests, completed last we…
Le wokisme, which the French love to hate, traces its intellectual genealogy back to 1960s French intellectuals.
โI had a very, very hard time with the announcement” Hidalgo said.
Itโs important to understand why the Georgian people take to the streets any time their Euro-Atlantic path is put into doubt.
Keir Starmer may have trounced Rishi Sunak in the snap post-debate poll โ but real voter anger was the star of the show.
The prime minister has apologized after leaving Normandy early to return to the election trail
Emissions trading was supposed to save the planet. But fraudsters quickly learned how to rip the system off, making themselves spectacularly rich. Then some of the major players started turning on each otherโข A longer version of this piece first appear…
Welcome to Declassified, a weekly humor column. Inside a planning meeting for the Paris Olympics, sometime in late 2017โฆ Marketing: โHey guys, Iโve got this great idea! Why donโt we have the opening ceremony for the Olympics along the river Seine?โ Security: โYouโre joking, right? Itโll be a terroristโs dream. Are we making โbeing picked [โฆ]
Organisers expect 75% of identified bacterial pollution will be gone by the time the starting gun fires for the open water eventsBeside a sign saying โNo swimmingโ, Pierre Fuzeau defiantly pulled on his swimming cap, slipped into the green water of the…
Maximilian Krah was the only person making an effort, and now he’s no longer campaigning in the EU election.
American regulator Travis Tygart accuses the World Anti-Doping Agency of “allowing” Chinese authority to cover up illegal drug-taking by top swimmers.
The swimming leg of the triathlon could be cancelled if heavy rain affects water quality in the River Seine, says Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet.
A French water charity sounded the alarm Monday about pollution in the Seine just over 100 days before the start of the Olympics when the river is set to be used for swimming events. Surfrider Foundation said it had analysed six months of tests over w…
This conveniently located Italian plays all the hits.
The โฌ1.5B deal includes BFM TV news channel and RMC radio station.
For the fifth consecutive year, Poland is swimming in the slow lane, ranking last in the latest edition of the Contraception Policy Atlas Europe 2024.ย
Angry farmers, worried tourism workers and unprepared politicians โ Catalonia is on the frontline of a drought-stricken future Walking through Barcelona these days, you canโt miss the signs and billboards picturing a red plastic bucket and the message …
Thirty years after the film highlighted their plight, thousands of whales and dolphins remain performing in entertainment parksAnyone who grew up in the 1990s may well remember this movie scene: a 3.6-tonne orca leaping to freedom over a harbour wall a…
Brussels 2024 would look a little bit different.
Child sexual abuse material is proliferating online, leaving law enforcement fighting against the tide.
Dolphins have thumbs and dogs are making inroads in the European Parliament!
The love story behind the biggest scandal to ever hit the European Parliament โ and the cozy, transactional world in which it took place.
Steamy, spiritual and stress-busting, there are more than 3m saunas in Finland. Not only are they skin tingling, they help people explore what it is to be humanI should not be surprised if an older sauna-goer asks me to scrub their back, says Alexander…
In a sign of instability in Beijing’s top ranks, foreign policy and defense officials are vanishing as Xi roots outs perceived enemies.
Tories voiced concern after British PM ‘throws toys out of the pram’ during Parthenon Sculptures row.
After Russia’s invasion, most Ukrainian men were banned from leaving, but many are escaping abroad.
โFor us Hungarians, Lake Balaton represents summer. But itโs now being taken over by ugly apartment complexes โ with lots of lavender ice-cream places all over its posh north sideโThis was taken in the summer of 2015 at Lake Balaton in Hungary, and the…
Everyone who gives birth in the Netherlands has the legal right to a kraamzorg to help with everything from breastfeeding to laundry. How do these new mums find it? To new parents processing the shock of delivery and swimming in hormones, newborns can …
Sharon Calderon survived the Hamas massacre, but 3 of her relatives are suspected of being kidnapped by the militant group.
Big promises accompanied the French bid for next yearโs Games. Now politicians and hydrologists are pulling out all the stops to make the capitalโs river fit for purpose. And cities around the world are watchingโฆRiders of Parisโs No 7 Mรฉtro line have l…
Parisians are furious about bedbugs but are they right to be? We asked a bedbug.
Twenty-one people died when bus crashed through guardrail that accident victim charity says was โdesigned for a country roadโSerhan Gangal and his sister were among a group of tourists waiting for the 8.30pm bus on Tuesday which they expected to shuttl…
Once dismissed as a swimming pool drink, rosรฉ is becoming the go-to wine for the French as traditions changeFor the French, a glass of chilled blush rosรฉ was once considered a delicate but not entirely serious โswimming pool drinkโ; a summer apรฉritif f…
Analysis of UK and EU data found the country had the fifth-biggest share of โpoorโ quality swimming waters
A bike route that heads out of the Danish capital to take in leading museums, via sea-swimming, deer-spotting and modernist landmarksย
Ivan van Chittenden and Brendan Wall were competing in event that Triathlon Ireland did not sanction owing to bad weatherAn Ironman swimming race in which two competitors died was not sanctioned by the governing body for triathlons in Ireland due to co…
High levels of water pollution in the Seine River caused two swimming events to be cancelled over the weekend, after two others successfully went ahead on Thursday and Friday. A year ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics, organisers say there is no Plan B …
World Aquatics will debut a new open category for transgender athletes at this year’s Swimming World Cup event in Berlin.
Several people have died waiting for ambulances including a pregnant woman and her unborn child.
Open-water event pulled to โsafeguard swimmersโ healthโOrganisers insist new infrastructure will be deliveredHeavy rain in Paris has led to the cancellation of a swimming event in the River Seine that was to be a test for next yearโs Olympic Games, but…
Former UK leader promises ‘little newt motels’ if amphibians are discovered at his massive house.
Former leader of the UK’s Conservative Party forced to once again deal with slimy creatures.
The radio presenter, author and chair of the Edinburgh Art Festival on ceilidhs, swimming and vintage shopping in the Scottish capital
An accident at a sewage treatment plant in western Latvia has caused a large spill of untreated waste into the Baltic Sea, leading to the closure of beaches and a ban on swimming, local authorities said Monday.
