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The International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed Paris as a host city for the 2024 Olympic Games, 100 years after the French capital last staged the event, at a ceremony in Lima on Wednesday. Los Angeles is set to take up the torch in 2028, for the third time, having already hosted the Olympics in 1932 and 1984. The Lausanne-based IOC took the unprecedented step of awarding two games simultaneously.
Four months ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera inaugurates the Yves-du-Manoir stadium, in the northwestern Paris suburb of Colombes. The stadium, which was the main site for the 1924 Paris Olympics is ready, a century later, to welcome hundreds of participants and tens of thousands of spectators. IMAGES
France unveils its athletes' outfits for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, with a mix of streetwear and sportswear. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Jean Castex arrives in the Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis for the presentation of development works in Le Bourget, in view of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. IMAGES
During a trip to the Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, French President Emmanuel Macron meets sportsmen and women to discuss the 2024 Olympic Games, for which several facilities are to be built in the department. IMAGES