NEW DELHI: Just weeks after the Olympics, Paris opened the Paralympic Games on Wednesday with a ceremony outside a stadium. French President Emmanuel Macron officially declared the Games open in a ceremony on the Champs-Elysées avenue to Place de la Concorde.More than 4,000 athletes with physical, visual, and intellectual impairments will compete in 22 sports…
Former US President Donald Trump on Monday declared the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games a ‘disgrace’ following criticism directed at its creators for what some perceived as an excessive display.“I’m very open-minded but I thought what they did was a disgrace,” Trump told Fox News.His remarks came after Catholic organizations and French…
“This shirt represents the children who are martyred and die under the rubble,” said Palestinian boxer Waseem Abu Sal. Abu Sal, who is the first Palestinian boxer to ever compete at the Olympics, made a statement during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics by wearing a shirt depicting children being bombed. The embroidered images…
The 33rd Olympic Games commenced on Friday with a captivating opening ceremony in Paris which left the audience in awe. The ‘Parade of Nations‘, which usually features sportspersons walking on along the running track of a stadium, witnessed a break from tradition as athletes from 205 countries and one refugee team navigated the Seine on…
NEW DELHI: Actor and BJP MP Kangana Ranaut, who does not shy away from making her views public, weighed in on the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic on Saturday and criticised the performance as “hyper-sexualized, blasphemous” acts, which she said were a result of “Leftists hijacking the Olympics.” The performance involved children apparently reimagining…
PARIS: The incessant wailing of police sirens could be heard at the stroke of 12 on Friday afternoon outside the Palais des Congres. The city was on high alert. Heavily armed police personnel had started cordoning off the area close to the River Seine. This beautiful world city, which moves at a fast pace, had…
