French athlete sets world record for rope climbing at Eiffel Tower 00:56. The descendants of the Eiffel Tower's designer say they will fight to stop the Olympic rings being left on the tower, as ...

Plans by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo to keep the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower have been opposed by the family of Gustave Eiffel, the landmark's designer. Story by Nancy Ing and Alexander Smith ...

PARIS — There are few sights more iconic than the Eiffel Tower and the Olympic rings.But not everyone agrees they belong together — least of all the family of the man who designed the landmark ...

The International Olympic Committee strictly controls depictions of the rings. Hidalgo, though, maintains she has the IOC’s backing, and because the city owns the Eiffel Tower, she said the plan ...

The Olympic rings are displayed on the Eiffel Tower at night between the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris on August 19, 2024. / Credit: Adnan Farzat/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

To preserve the spirit of the Games, Paris' mayor has proposed making the five Olympic rings installed on the Eiffel Tower a permanent fixture. Now the Eiffel family has gotten involved.

Parisians won’t be saying “adieu” to the Olympic Games as early as they expected after the city’s mayor announced plans to leave the Olympic rings as a permanent fixture on the Eiffel Tower.

The giant Olympic rings that were installed on the Eiffel Tower for the 2024 summer Games will become a permanent fixture on the monument, the mayor of Paris revealed on Saturday.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo's plans to keep the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower permanently has drawn the ire of some Parisians, French politicians, and the descendants of the man who designed the ...

Parisians enjoyed their Olympics so much last summer that they are marking the anniversary with a public celebration to ...

France’s court of auditors has provided the first official estimate of public spending tied to the 2024 Paris Olympics and ...

Parisians won’t be saying “adieu” to the Olympic Games as early as they expected after the city’s mayor announced plans to leave the Olympic rings as a permanent fixture on the Eiffel Tower.