Rain-Soaked, Broiling Paris Does Battle With Olympic Weather Gods
The city of Paris must have done something to anger the Olympic weather gods.
A local favorite ran home first in the women’s triathlon at the Paris Summer Games on Wednesday, lifting France to second place in the medal table and sending fans crazy.
But it was a brutal contest, almost two hours of torture—or, more precisely, one hour 54 minutes and 55 seconds for 27-year-old Cassandre Beaugrand, who set a world record in her hometown after leaving her rivals behind in the final kilometer of the running leg.