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Paris Olympics to cost taxpayers 3-5 billion euros: auditor

The Paris Olympics this year are expected to cost the state between 3-5 billion euros ($3.2-5.4 billion), the French national auditor said Tuesday as new figures revealed the country’s widening debt levels. “We still don’t know the cost of the Olympics,” Pierre Moscovici, the head of the auditing body, told France Inter radio. “These games

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Canberra Capitals stars, Lauren Jackson in Opals Olympics squad | The Canberra Times

Extended Opals Squad for Paris Olympics: Rebecca Allen, Zitina Aokuso, Georgia Amoore, Amy Atwell, Chloe Bibby, Isobel Borlase, Keely Froling, Darcee Garbin, Cayla George, Shyla Heal, Lauren Jackson, Alice Kunek, Tess Madgen, Ezi Magbegor, Anneli Maley, Jade Melbourne, Lauren Nicholson, Stephanie Reid, Maddison Rocci, Lauren Scherf, Alex Sharp, Alanna Smith, Stephanie Talbot, Marianna Tolo, Kristy

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Tominaga looks to NBA Draft and Olympics after NCAA exit

With the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s March Madness exit closing the curtain on his college basketball days, Keisei Tominaga is moving to the next phase of his career. The Japanese national team guard was a standout in his final season for coach Fred Hoiberg’s Cornhuskers, helping the team secure a place in the National Collegiate Athletic

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London still awaits Olympic’s promised ‘affordable’ housing

More than a decade after London hosted the Olympic Games, cranes are still everywhere in and around the Olympic Park in Stratford, where an array of buildings are under construction. But most of the “affordable” housing for the east London area, which like much of the British capital has seen gentrification in recent years, is

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Global

Paris Waiters Race as Storied Contest Returns Before Olympics

The contestants warmed up with stretches and squats in front of City Hall, carefully repositioned croissants and glasses on their trays and tightened their aprons as pop music blared from loudspeakers. Then, they were off. On Sunday, for the first time in over a decade, Paris revived a tradition: an annual race of cafe and

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