Olympians eager to check out sites, and food, in Paris
French photographer JR, left, and athlete Sandra Laoura hold the Olympic torch in the courtyard of the Louvre museum on July 14, 2024, in Paris. The city itself will be one of the protagonists of the 2024 Olympics. That's why the Eiffel Tower and Seine River are featured just as prominently as Simone Biles or Katie Ledecky in NBC’s ads.Paris is a popular destination for vacations, of course. The food and drink. The art and history. The landmarks. And so on.
“I’m excited to just explore and just take in everything Paris has to offer, because me and my friends, we look at things and we get inspired,” said breaker Jeffrey Louis, a.k.a. B-Boy Jeffro. “We’re looking at the structure of buildings and we’re like, ‘Oh, that’s tight! We could do this; we could do that with this.’ We look at fashion and we’re like, ‘Okay, what can we pull from and what can we add to our crew?’ So there’s a lot of things that we want to try and just explore.
There are those, such as breaker Sunny Choi or rower Michelle Sechser, who know they’ll need to set those sorts of culinary delights aside until the last part of their stay.“We do have weight-class restrictions; we have to weigh in two hours before a race,” Sechser said. “So after racing’s done, I’m most excited to get out and explore the Parisian food and really enjoy some French meals.”
She makes sure to fill herself with foods conducive to peak performance. But she also does not want to deny herself too much.
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