High Seine levels delay Paris Olympics rehearsals again
Following a stormy month of May that has seen regular downpours in the French capital, a rehearsal scheduled for May 27 has been cancelled -- as was a previous one on April 8. "It will take place when the weather conditions allow for it," officials in the Olympics ministry and the local organising committee told AFP. The Paris Games are set to open on July 26 with a boat parade on the Seine -- the first time a Summer Olympics has begun outside the athletics stadium -- under plans that are widely seen as high-risk. Читать дальше...