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The 2024 Olympics were a success for Paris but a calamity for some businesses

Sep. 10, 2024 08:27 AM EDT

PARIS (AP) — Parisian business owners and hotel managers were promised a summer like no other. Millions of tourists would flood the French capital for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, generating huge profits for the region. With the Games officially over, the time has come to run...

Olympics closing ceremony latest: Paris Games close at Stade de France

Aug. 11, 2024 18:08 PM EDT

SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — The 2024 Olympics closed Sunday with an elaborate closing ceremony at the Stade de France just north of Paris. It’s not a closing ceremony without one last fireworks display Fireworks are going off atop the stadium to give the Paris...

Harvard rebuffs protests and won't remove Sackler name from two buildings

Aug. 09, 2024 19:28 PM EDT

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University has decided against removing from campus buildings the name of a family whose company makes the powerful painkiller OxyContin, despite protests from parents whose children fatally overdosed. The decision last month by the Harvard Corporation to...

Remco Evenepoel of Belgium becomes the first to sweep the Olympic road race and time trial

Aug. 03, 2024 12:58 PM EDT

PARIS (AP) — The only things that slowed Remco Evenepoel on his way to Olympic history were a flat tire and the finish line. The Belgian cyclist has become the first rider to sweep the road race and time trial at the Summer Games, relentlessly attacking over three climbs of...

A tour of Paris: The men's and women's Olympic road races highlight city's spectacular sights

Aug. 03, 2024 06:56 AM EDT

PARIS (AP) — The road races in cycling at the Olympics are an opportunity for the host city to shine. The routes that the men and women traverse over several grueling hours and hundreds of kilometers of racing typically pass some of its most iconic historical and cultural...