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"D-500," French President Emmanuel Macron tweets with an image of Paris hosting the Olympics, 500 days before the world's biggest sporting event kicks off. IMAGES
French ministers join former athlete and President of the Paris 2024 Olympic committee, Tony Estanguet, at the Elysee Palace for a "site meeting", two years before the start of the Olympics. 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
Russian runner Alexander Kaper ran nearly 5,000 miles for the past 200 days from Moscow to Beijing. The running lover celebrated his arrival from capital to capital on Tuesday, completing his half-year odyssey across the wilds of Siberia and finally arriving to Beijing.
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.
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).