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The Olympic Games Return to Paris

Amanpour

CNN

News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

A hundred years since Paris last hosted the Olympic Games, the torch is once again making its way through the city, ahead of the opening ceremony on Friday. Andy Murray, the British tennis star and only man to win gold twice in the men’s singles, joins Christiane in Paris.  Also on today's show: French Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra; author Michael Waters (The Other Olympians)  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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18 plus, T's and C's apply, exchange fees and fair usage limits apply. Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur in Paris. Here's what's coming up. Let the games begin.

0:47.0

We have a special show as the Paris Olympics kickoff.

0:50.0

First, I love tennis, but I'm not able to train and prepare as well as I used to.

0:56.0

Two-time Olympic tennis champion Andy Murray joins us as he announces Paris will be his

1:01.6

farewell to the profession. we are very focused very

1:06.2

concentrated we have very well prepared but we know it's a heavy responsibility

1:11.8

on our shoulders that we are up to the challenge.

1:14.8

Can sport unite a fractured France and a fractured world?

1:19.0

I ask the sports minister, Emily Udaa Castera also ahead.

1:23.6

It strikes me that we've been having the same conversation

1:28.1

kind of over and over again and often erase

1:31.2

all of this is the athletes themselves.

1:33.6

The other Olympians, author Michael Waters tells Harry Strynavasan about the gripping true stories

1:40.5

of pioneering trans and intersex athletes competing in the 1930s. Oh, Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montpur in Paris where the

2:11.0

Olympic flame is making its way through this city of light before tomorrow's

2:15.8

opening ceremony.

2:16.8

A hundred years since they held their last summer games, that was 1924. Athletes from 2006 Olympic national teams are

2:26.1

descending on the French capital as the world tries to unite around the

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