One month and counting: The first post-pandemic Olympics are finally within sight

PARIS — In exactly one month, the planet’s most gifted athletes will float down the Seine in Paris to celebrate the first Olympics since a world pandemic truncated consecutive Games.

PARIS — In exactly one month, the planet’s most gifted athletes will float down the Seine in Paris to celebrate the first Olympics since a world pandemic truncated consecutive Games.

Opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics, set for July 26, will mark Paris' open door to millions of fans and thousands of athletes’ loved ones after they were virtually shut out of Tokyo in the summer of 2021 and Beijing in the winter of 2022.

There were no fans in the stands in Tokyo, when the Summer Games were held a year after the world economy shut down because of Covid-19.

While a handful of spectators were allowed to attend the Winter Games a year later, contests were largely held in bubbles.

Summer McIntosh during a women's 400-meter medley heat at the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, in July 2023.Yutaka / AFLO via Reuters fileWhen 14-year-old Canadian Summer McIntosh jumped into the pool three years ago, her family was more than 6,000 miles away.

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