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Paolini beats Andreescu at Wimbledon

BBC Online : Jasmine Paolini reached the Wimbledon fourth round for the first time by impressively defeating Bianca Andreescu. The French Open finalist, seeded seventh,...

Chinese athletes gear up for Paris 2024

Agency : With the Olympic stage set, and golden glory beckoning, Chinese athletes have been going all-out to ensure it will be a medal-laden campaign...

Moulin Rouge inaugurates new windmill sails ahead of Olympics Paris’s Moulin Rouge cabaret club, whose landmark windmill sails fell down in April, inaugurated its new blades on Friday, nearly a week before the Olympic torch was due to pass the venue. Several hundred delighted locals and tourists gathered outside the club, one of the most visited attractions in the French capital, to celebrate the four red blades, decked out in gold and red. “The windmill without its wings is a void for Paris, it was just sad,” said managing director Jean-Victor Clerico, who runs the family business that attracts 600,000 visitors every year.