Paris is split into two halves – the Right and Left banks – by the storied Seine River. The city is further broken into 20 numbered arrondissements (or neighborhoods), which twirl clockwise ...

The 2024 Paris Olympics will start ... a spectacular on the waters of the River Seine, which flows through the capital's city center. Here is a simple map of the boats' route.

Summer 2025 marks the grand return of swimming in the Seine, a first in nearly a century! Thanks to the legacy of the Paris ...

Journalists and spectators from around the world crowded banks and bridges of the Seine River to watch Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo take a dip in its murky waters on Wednesday. She was accompanied by ...

Organisers hope to show that the Olympics is not off limits for anyone, in tune with the Paris 2024 slogan ... and lower quays running alongside the Seine – where spectators will be placed ...

PARIS — At 20 seconds past 8 a.m. Wednesday, 55 female triathletes plunged into the Seine just below the Pont Alexandre III. The Nymphs of the Seine carved into the bridge’s arch, a fleet of ...

When the 2024 Summer Olympics kick off in Paris, the city is going for the wow factor. The opening ceremony won’t take place in a stadium but—bucking tradition—outside on the River Seine.

The world is officially a month from the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics — and new tests just revealed that one of the Games' focal points for events, the Seine River in Paris, isn't ready.

Tourists visiting Paris will have the opportunity to swim in the river Seine from July onwards, the city's authorities announced on Wednesday. Three outdoor pools will be set up, one of them right ...

The Seine River is too polluted for swimming events at the Paris Olympics, city officials say. Paris invested $1.5 billion to clean the Seine, but heavy rainfall has increased pollution levels.