Let the Games begin! Rugby, football kick off Paris 2024
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Paris: Football and Rugby Sevens kick off the sporting action at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday featuring a top French star and a huge police presenc...
Paris: Football and Rugby Sevens kick off the sporting action at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday featuring a top French star and a huge police presence.
As the clock ticks down towards Friday's opening ceremony, Olympic chiefs awarded the 2030 Winter Games to the French Alps and the 2034 event to Salt Lake City.
But in a dramatic twist they warned the US city could be stripped of the Games if American authorities kept up their feud with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).
As the sport gets under way two days before the opening ceremony, a packed Stade de France will cheer on Antoine Dupont -- arguably the world's best rugby player and a pin-up of the Paris Games -- as the Rugby Sevens tournament starts.
The electric Dupont is the biggest draw for the 555,000 fans expected over the six days of rugby action, but France will have their work cut out to stop double Olympic champions Fiji.