• A. London
  • B. Paris
  • C. Rome
  • D. Madrid

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This city had already hosted the Games once before, exactly one hundred years earlier. The opening ceremony did not take place in a stadium, but on a large river that flows right through the city centre.

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The correct answer is B. Paris. The French capital hosted the 2024 Summer Olympics, a century after the previous edition in that same city.

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What immediately set the 2024 edition apart from all previous Games was that the opening ceremony took place largely on and along the River Seine. Thousands of athletes travelled by boat through the city centre, past famous landmarks along the banks. Not a packed stadium, but an entire city as the backdrop.

It was Paris’s third time as host of the Summer Games, following editions in 1900 and 1924. Cities that have hosted the Games three or more times can be counted on one hand, which places Paris in good company alongside London, which had its turn in 1908, 1948 and 2012.