• Plastic-bottle seats and wooden pools: can Paris deliver the leanest, greenest Olympics yet?

    Plastic-bottle seats and wooden pools: can Paris deliver the leanest, greenest Olympics yet?
    The Paris Olympics vowed to build as little as possible, using the city’s landmarks as a backdrop instead. Has it worked? We check out the bold new venues, upgraded old ones – and the athletes’ candy-coloured villageParis’s Place de la Concorde is no stranger to scaffolding, as the site of more than 1,000 beheadings during the French Revolution. Two centuries on, the scaffold has returned. Teetering mountains of metal poles now fill the ceremonial square, forming a dozen

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