France downsizes Paris 2024 opening ceremony crowd to around 300,000 spectators (Associated Press)

FILE - The Olympic rings are set up at Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower, a day after the official announcement that the 2024 Summer Olympic Games will be in the French capital, in Paris on Sept. 14, 2017. The United States is predicted to top the medals tables — both the overall count and gold-medal count — for the 2024 Paris Olympics, according to one forecast released on Friday, Jan. 26, 2024, six months before the Games open on July 26. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File) (Image obtained at apnews.com)

French Interior minister Gerald Darmanin said Wednesday that some 300,000 spectators will be able to attend the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics, about half the size of...

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