Atheletics

Views: 2 NPR PARIS — A special kind of iron curtain came down across central Paris on Thursday, with the beginning of an Olympic anti-terrorism perimeter along the banks of the River Seine sealing off a kilometers-long (miles-long) area to Parisians and tourists who hadn’t applied in advance for a pass. The words on many […]

Views: 4 THE CUT Paris’s mayor may be celebrating the city’s readiness to host the Olympics next week by swimming in the formerly E. coli–infested Seine, but not everyone is impressed with the host city. On Tuesday, Amnesty International called France’s refusal to allow its athletes to wear hijabs while competing in the Games discriminatory and hypocritical.