
St.-Denis, France • The 2024 Summer Games, a global sports festival that descended upon Paris for 19 days of spirited competition, drew to an end Sunday with a grandiose closing ceremony at the Stade de France. It was in this stadium more than two weeks ago that these Games got off to their roaring start, with roughly 80,000 fans cheering on French star Antoine Dupont and his rugby-sevens teammates, who went on to win the host nation’s first gold medal. More champions were crowned in the days that followed as...