PARIS—The closing ceremony of the Beijing Olympics used to be imagined to total one in every of the darkest chapters in Olympic history, a mosey that saw the Games budge into autocracies, slog thru a virus and navigate nuclear posturing, all while world ardour dipped to contemporary lows.
So as Beijing handed off to Paris, which can welcome the 2024 Summer season Olympics, organizers breathed a yell of reduction. They are going to fair stay up for a decade of alluring host cities in liberal democracies—the French capital, Milan and Los Angeles—mixed with the ebbing pandemic and hope for a meaningful rebound in rankings.
