SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE REPORTING — The Olympic torch has landed in France, and begun its 69-day journey to Paris. It’s a milestone for the thirty third Olympiad, stuffed with reminders at each cease – from the French Riviera to the seashores at Normandy to the French capital – that these Olympics will include an unprecedented menace of terrorism.
Two months earlier than the opening ceremony, France is already on its highest degree of alert, because of a resurgent Islamic State, a battle in Gaza that many terrorism consultants consider has impressed jihadists, and the Paris organizers’ formidable plans to current an open face to the general public. On July 26, reasonably than the normal march of athletes into an Olympic Stadium, the video games will start with an almost four-mile procession alongside the Seine River, with athletes getting into Paris on boats, a whole lot of 1000’s of spectators watching from particular viewing stands, and Parisians and their friends wanting on from their home windows.
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