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Associated Press

The Paris Olympics organisers on Friday unveiled a display of the five Olympic rings mounted on the Eiffel Tower as the French capital marks 50 days until the start of the Summer Games.
The structure of rings, made of recycled French steel, will be displayed on the south side of the 135-year-old landmark in central Paris, overlooking the Seine River.
There will be no shortage of iconic venues at the Paris Olympics.
The tower, nicknamed La Dame de Fer (The Iron Lady), will feature prominently in the July 26-August 11 Paris Games and the following Paralympics.

Men’s and women’s volleyball players will compete at the foot of the 330-metre (108-metre) monument.
They will be watched by almost 13,000 fans at the temporary Eiffel Tower Stadium on the nearby Champ de Mars, where Parisians and tourists like to have picnics on the grass or watch July 14 firework displays.
The Olympic and Paralympic medals in Paris are being embedded with pieces from a hexagonal chunk of iron taken from the tower.
The hugely popular landmark in central Paris has seen soaring visitor numbers in the lead-up to the 2024 Games.
Workers assembled the prefabricated steel rings and, after dark on Thursday, two huge cranes lifted the logo, weighing 30 tonnes and 29 metres long, into place between two legs of the tower just above its first level.
Pierre Engel, an engineer at ArcelorMittal, the steel company that manufactured the rings from recycled material, said tests and studies had been carried out for many months to ensure the success of the operation.
The rings, each nine metres in diameter, will be illuminated every night, with 100,000 LED bulbs through the Paralympic Games, which start on August 28 – 17 days after the Olympics’ closing ceremony.

“It will be one of the images of the Games,” predicted Thierry Reboul, Director of Events and Ceremonies at the Paris Organising Committee for the Olympic Games.
Only two other buildings in Paris have the five rings attached to their facades.
Earlier in the week, the rings were also hoisted at the Paris La Defense Arena, in suburban Nanterre, where the Olympic and Paralympic swimming events will be held.
On the other side of Paris, the Georges-Vallerey pool, a training venue for these Games, has long displayed the rings because it hosted the swimming at the 1924 Games.
The Paralympics will bring together 4,400 athletes from 180 countries in 549 events and 22 sports. Many sports will take place near landmarks including the Eiffel Tower, Versailles and the Grand Palais.


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Olympic rings decorate Eiffel Tower as Paris marks 50 days to go until Games

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Rings made of recycled French steel are unveiled on the 135-year-old landmark