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Doing gymnastics or playing ball in Paris’ most famous venue is usually strictly forbidden. But not for these French athletes.

King Louis XIV’s water games: swimming is strictly prohibited in the Apollo Fountain at the Palace of Versailles. However, this does not apply to the glimmer Béryl Gastaldello.
Photo: Joel Saget (AFP)

Lighting the Olympic flame: Climber Capucine Viglione climbs a street lamp near the Sacre Coeur in Montmartre.
Photo: Joel Saget (AFP)

Skip the lines to see the Mona Lisa: Paralympic triple jumper Arnaud Assoumani leaps over the Louvre Pyramid.
Photo: Frank Fife (AFP)

Liberty Leading the People: Handball player Nikola Karabatic freezes in awe before Eugène Delacroix’s painting “Liberty Leading the People” in the Louvre Museum’s Salle Rouge Mollien
Photo: Cefano Lalandini (AFP)

High jump and fall in front of Notre Dame: Pole vaulter Thibaut Collet balances in front of the construction site of the cathedral, which was severely damaged in a fire in 2019.
Photo: Joel Saget (AFP)

Under the symbol of the Victory Column: rugby player Varian Pasquet dives in the Place Vendôme.
Photo: Frank Fife (AFP)

Impressionist: BMX rider Matthias Dandois shows off his skills at the Musee d’Orsay
Photo: Joel Saget (AFP)

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the best steeplechase runner in the country? Pénélope Leprevost in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.
Photo: Stefano Relandini (AFP)

City of love, city of sports: Para-cyclist Florian Joanny rides over the Pont de Bir-Hakeim and past the Eiffel Tower.
Photo: Joel Saget (AFP)

Rowing through the castle park: Canoeist Marjorie Delassus paddles across the pond in the Luxembourg Gardens.
Photo: Joel Saget (AFP)

Once a train station, now an art museum: Paralympian Guillaume Toucoulet aims his bow and arrow at the clock of the former train station and now the Musée d’Orsay.
Photo: Frank Fife (AFP)

The venue for the cycling race is already visible: cyclist Clara Copponi of the Cirque d’Hiver Bouglione.
Photo: Frank Fife (AFP)

Royal Chapel Long Jump: Paralympic long jumper Dimitri Pavadé at Sainte-Chapelle. The former palace chapel of the royal residence was built between 1244 and 1248 in High Gothic style.
Photo: Frank Fife (AFP)

Concentration and body control: Taekwondo athlete Magda Witte-Henin practices in the Japanese garden of the Albert Kahn Museum.
Photo: Joel Saget (AFP)

Searching for the perfect wave: Surfer Vahiné Fierro had a hard time taking the Paris metro to attend the competition, which was held on the south coast of Tahiti in French Polynesia.
Photo: Stefano Relandini (AFP)

Quiet in the library, please: Tennis player Diane Parry did not use the “Oval Richelieu Room” at the National Library of France as intended.
Photo: Stefano Relandini (AFP)

Throw a few baskets at the shopping mall: Basketball player Laetitia Guapo dribbles through the Galerie Vivienne.
Photo: Stefano Relandini (AFP)

A spacious playing field: Village hockey goalie Mathilde Petriaux blocks a puck in the palace gardens.
Photo: Joel Saget (AFP)

Swordsman Yannick Borel draws his sword at the Opera Garnier in Paris.
Photo: Frank Fife (AFP)

Super heavyweight boxer Jamily-Dini Abdul-Moinze training at the Furstenburg Square
Photo: Joel Saget (AFP)

Wax figure and prosthetic leg: Paralympic volleyball player Cyrille Chahboune poses with her wax figure at the Musee Grévin.
Photo: Stefano Relandini (AFP)

Fake horse, real dumbbells: weightlifter Anaïs Michel among the props at Cirque d’Hiver Bouglione in Paris.
Photo: Frank Fife (AFP)

Flying to freedom: Trampoline athlete Léa Labrousse flies over the Conciergerie, a former courthouse and prison.
Photo: Stefano Relandini (AFP)
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