Tony Estanguet, the head of Paris 2024, the organizing committee of the Paris 2024 Games, gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Paris, Friday, Aug. 25, 2023. The host city of Paris vowed to deliver an extraordinary grand opening on July 26, 2024, as the ceremony is expected to draw about 600,000 spectators to the Parisian quayside. Citing security measures, the Paris police prefecture ordered on July 25 the removal of 570 stationary boxes out of which booksellers have operated for decades on the quays of the Seine river. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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