Travis Scott was arrested after a fight at a 5-star Paris hotel near the Olympics: prosecutors

Tech Insider
Travis Scott attended the Olympic men's basketball semifinal match between Team USA and Serbia in Paris on Thursday.
Travis Scott attended the Olympic men's basketball semifinal match between Team USA and Serbia in Paris on Thursday.

Arturo Holmes/Getty Images

I attended the Olympics as a regular person. Here's what the surprisingly easy and cheap experience was like.

Tech Insider : Travel
Author and her husband at Olympic soccer match smiling
My husband and I attended one of the games of the Summer Olympics in France.

Agnes Groonwald

Meet Sunny Choi, the Estée Lauder director who left corporate America to become an Olympic breaker

Tech Insider : Sports
Sunny Choi posed for Team USA Media Summit portrait in front of a red and blue abstract background.
Sunny Choi Team USA Media Summit portrait.

Mike Coppola/Staff/Getty Images

I attended 5 Olympic events as a regular fan. Here's what surprised me the most.

Tech Insider : Travel
Agnes poses with a surprised smile in front of a statue of the Olympic rings in Paris.
I attended five events at the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Agnes Groonwald

17 couples competing at the Paris 2024 Olympics

Tech Insider : Sports
Chinese Badminton stars Liu Yuchen and Huang Ya Qiong got engaged at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Chinese Badminton stars Liu Yuchen and Huang Ya Qiong got engaged at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Arun Sanker/Getty Images

How much money Olympic athletes earn when they win medals

Tech Insider : Economy, Economy
US gymnastics women
US Olympians are awarded $37,500 for gold medals, $22,500 for silver medals, and $15,000 for bronze medals.

Tom Weller/VOIGT/Getty Images

Airbnb executive hints at coming perks that could convince travelers not to book hotels

Tech Insider : Travel
A black screen displaying the red Airbnb logo appears in front of a blurred out Airbnb homepage
Airbnb is considering hotel-like amenities for travelers.

NurPhoto

Vintage photos show what it was like to stay at the first Olympic Village 100 years ago

Tech Insider : Sports, Sports
Athletes sit in chairs outside a wooden hut at the Olympic Village in Paris in 1924.
Athletes relaxed at the first Olympic Village.

Topical Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

The Seine is so dirty, Olympic athletes can't swim in it

Tech Insider : Travel, Sports

High levels of E. coli in the Seine River postponed the 2024 Olympics men's triathlon on July 30 after the French government put $1.5 billion into cleaning it.

Read the original article on Business Insider

Paris' River Seine is so polluted that Olympic athletes weren't allowed to swim in it

Tech Insider : Sports
The Eiffel Tower behind the Seine River on July 30, 2024.
World Triathlon said the men's triathlon would move back a day, to July 31, 2024, to give pollution in the Seine a chance to subside.

Jan Woitas/picture alliance via Getty Images

Subscribe to Paris