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Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: Cui Bono

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See inside the Flying start edition

A worker sets up a marquee at the construction site of La Concorde Urban Parc for the Paris 2024 Olympics. Photo: Julien de Rosa/AFP/Getty

The illegals who built Paris 2024

The Olympic torch is ready to be lit. But this Games would not be happening without the efforts of undocumented, low-paid workers

American pentathlete Robert LeGendre makes a world record long jump of 7.76 metres at the 1924 Paris Olympics. Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty

Paris in the Olympic spring

The 1924 Olympics featured a future Tarzan, the men who inspired Chariots of Fire and a farewell to the man who created the modern Games.