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This article is part of FT Globetrotter’s guide to Paris Victorian Britons codified the modern versions of most sports but didn’t see the point of playing them against foreigners. That’s why most international sports competitions were invented in Paris. Many of these contests — including the modern Olympics, which return to the city next month — were invented here during France’s Belle Époque, around 1900.
The department remains the poorest in mainland France. Website; Directions Aquatics Centre The Stade de France is now being put to shame by a much smaller, tent-like structure that just opened across the motorway, connected by a footbridge: the Aquatics Centre, the only permanent sports facility built specifically for these Games. Its dipping roof, designed to reduce the distance from the top of the stands to the pool, is a wink to its bigger neighbour’s.
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