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France Shines at Paris 2024 Olympics: Rugby Gold and Historical Remembrance in the Seine

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Discover the highlights of the Paris 2024 Olympics, where the French rugby team clinched gold and the Algerian delegation honored historical victims in a poignant ceremony on the Seine River.


We will have to take responsibility now. A few days before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Aaron Grandidier made a promise at the microphone of Canal+: to dive into the Seine in the event of a gold medal in rugby 7s.

A bet that the encrypted channel did not fail to remind him, he who was titled with the French rugby team. “ A little backflip and presto... We have a few days left in Paris so we're going to try to do that anyway (laughs). » Bet launched.

The Algerian delegation participating in the Paris Olympics on board a boat on the Seine River (Reuters)

Members of the Algerian delegation participating in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris threw roses into the Seine River, in honor of the Algerian victims who were thrown into the river by French police in 1961 to die after protesting against the colonization of their country.

At the opening ceremony held on the Seine River as part of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, about 6,800 athletes crossed the 6-kilometre course in 85 boats.

Exceptional! The French rugby sevens team brought the first gold medal of these Paris 2024 Olympic Games, beating Fiji in the final (28-7), Saturday at the Stade de France, at the end of a controlled and sublimated by its star, Antoine Dupont.

In 1998, France acknowledged the killing of 40 people in the demonstration, but it has not yet recognized the massacre as a “state crime,” despite the adoption by the French National Assembly (Parliament) on March 28 of last of a proposed resolution condemning the “1961 Paris Massacre,” in which more than 300 people were killed. Algerian.

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