Team GB’s plan for Paris? Air con, ice vests and baristas
Today in Focus
The Guardian
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🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, two and a half weeks of sporting Wonder as the Paris Olympics begin. The cloudy day at the tennis courts means no sunscreen, right? |
| 0:25.0 | Wrong. |
| 0:26.0 | Clouds won't completely stop UV arrays, which make up 95% of UV radiation. |
| 0:31.0 | By layering up with a Rosh Passes, |
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| 0:36.7 | protection come rain or shine. |
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| 0:48.8 | dot com. This message was paid for by a roosh per se. As dusk falls on Paris tomorrow, an armada of boats will set off down the river |
| 1:05.0 | send to mark the beginning of the 2024 Olympic Games. |
| 1:09.0 | 300,000 spectators will line the banks as athletes from 205 countries float down to the Eiffel Tower. |
| 1:16.0 | It will be an Olympics of many firsts, the first time the opening ceremony is not taking place in a stadium. |
| 1:24.0 | In open boats, Pass Notre Dame, the Louvre, Paris's treasures, all the way to the Eiffel |
| 1:29.9 | Tower. The first time breakdancing, or breaking as it's called, will be an Olympic sport. |
| 1:37.0 | Breaking, going to the Olympics in 2024, is just super important for the culture, the dance for the art for the sport and the first time in over a century that swimmers will be allowed in the river |
| 1:49.2 | scent a move that's attracted a fair bit of skepticism. |
| 1:52.8 | The mayor, Anne Idalgo, has swam in the waterway to prove it is clean. |
| 1:57.2 | It's amazing, you know, it was a dream for us. We work a lot and very hard. |
| 2:04.0 | Expectations are high after the damp squib of Tokyo, |
| 2:08.0 | postponed for a year because of COVID and then held behind closed doors. |
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