Paris welcomed the Olympic Games with an opening ceremony like no other as athletes sailed down the River Seine despite the rain on Friday. Zinedine Zidane starred in a video to tee up the arrival ...

With the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics fast approaching ... on June 23 because of the river's water level and the amount of bacteria present. "The Seine is exquisite," Hidalgo said.

PARIS — With the Paris Olympics less than two weeks away, a question hangs over the Games: Will the Seine River be clean enough for athletes to swim in? Triathlon and marathon swimming are ...

PARIS — The star of Friday night’s opening ceremonies of the 2024 Summer Olympics was the Eiffel Tower, but for spectators at the nearby temporary stadium, nearly all of the show could only be ...

PARIS--A hot-air balloon ... off its first Summer Olympics in a century Friday, with a four-hour-long, rule-breaking opening ceremony that unfurled along the Seine River. On-and-off showers ...

The Seine River is 777 kilometers long and flows through Paris before reaching the English Channel. It is deep enough to hold ...

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip Wednesday in the Seine River, fulfilling a promise to ... to host swimming competitions during the 2024 Olympics as well as part of the opening ceremony ...

A metal curtain descended across central Paris on Thursday as the police imposed a security perimeter along the banks of the river Seine, shutting the area off to anyone without a pass.

Reasons to be Cheerful reports on river Seine, the storied French waterway that was once nearly biologically dead but is not ...

Three German swimmers became ill after competing in the open water races at the Paris Olympics, though it was not immediately clear if the long-polluted Seine River was responsible for their sickness.

Things like swimming in the Seine at the Paris Olympics brought a focus on the river being an asset rather than a liability." As a sign of that change of public perception in recent years ...