At six feet three and with an almost gladiatorial physique, Dressel is a freestyle and butterfly specialist who holds world records in both strokes. He’ll swim three races in Paris: the 50-meter freestyle, the 100-meter butterfly, and the 4 x 100-meter freestyle relay. The pressure is high, but in the lead-up to the Olympics, Dressel … Read more
PARIS — PARIS (AP) — Lady Gaga delivered a dazzling performance as the first musical act during the Paris Olympics 2024 opening ceremony — except it was all prerecorded. The Grammy- and Oscar-winning performer kicked off her performance on steps along the Seine River, singing “Mon Truc en Plumes” in a tribute to French ballet … Read more
After a years-long hiatus, Céline Dion made a triumphant return to the stage at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The Canadian singer closed out the four-hour spectacular on the terrace of the Eiffel Tower after fellow powerhouse Lady Gaga kicked off the show on the bank of the Seine. Handout/Getty … Read more
PARIS — The Paris Olympics’ opening ceremony got underway after a rough start to the Summer Games on Friday, with rainy skies over the Seine and suspected acts of sabotage targeting France’s flagship high-speed rail network. French soccer legend Zinedine Zidane kicked off the opening ceremony with the Olympic flame in his hands. In a … Read more
In a city like Paris, resplendent architecture is as plentiful as the layers of a mille-feuille. Lucky for the 2024 Olympic Games, then, that the “sports venues” for dozens of its events just so happen to be some of the world’s most glamorous locales, including the Grand Palais, Pont Alexandre III, the Esplanade des Invalides. … Read more
SANTIAGO, Chile — Table tennis player Zeng Zhiying left China in 1989, the same year of the Tiananmen Square massacre, to teach the sport in northern Chile. Fast-forward 35 years, she will debut in the Olympic Games at age 58 under the name she adopted in the South American nation: Tania. Tania Zeng, who became … Read more
The spring 2025 menswear shows wrapped up a month ago and one of the biggest trends from our male street stylers? Brooches! While we can thank the 2024 award season and stars like Barry Keoghan and Cillian Murphy for popularizing the trend into the mainstream, we must remember where the brooch resurgence truly began: Pharrell … Read more
The Paris 2024 logo representing the Olympic Games is displayed near the Eiffel Tower in Paris on April 21, 2024, in anticipation of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. Chesnot | Getty Images The Paris Olympics will offer Comcast another chance to lift its streaming platform, Peacock, as it aims to not only … Read more
On Thursday, Zendaya took a break from supporting her boyfriend Tom Holland in West London to pop across the English Channel for the first-ever Prelude to the 2024 Olympic Games. The starry event took place at the Fondation Louis Vuitton and was hosted by LVMH chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault, Comcast NBCUniversal chairman and CEO … Read more
Happy pre-Olympics! On the eve of the Opening Ceremony, a special prelude to the 2024 Olympics was held at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. The star-studded bash was hosted by LVMH chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault, Comcast NBCUniversal chairman and CEO Brian Roberts, Grammy-winner and Louis Vuitton men’s designer Pharrell Williams, and Vogue’s Anna … Read more
