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have a packed show today the best 10
minutes in news let's get to it we're
going to switch things up today a bit
though Pop Quiz hot shot
which of these cities will host the 2024
Summer Olympics Paris France Milan Italy
Los Angeles California or Brisbane
Australia
all of these are future Olympic sites
but the next summer games will be in
Paris
they are less than a year away the
Summer Olympic and paralympic games and
just as the world's best athletes are
ramping up their training parisians are
having to ramp up their preparations to
welcome millions of people from all over
the world let's break the upcoming games
down by the Numbers Paris has 10 million
tickets available for the Olympics there
are 329 medal events in 32 different
sports across 18 days of competition
Paris tourism says there will be more
than a quarter of a million rooms
available during the games for
accommodations and they're predicting
that up to 15.9 million people could
visit the region next summer but Paris
is over 2 000 years old so that city has
some really old bones it's an added
challenge not just regarding
infrastructure but also the
transportation system CNN's Jim
bitterman has more
with less than a year to go before Paris
hosts the next Paralympics officials
have been showing off how much work has
been done with president Emmanuel macron
having promised 1.5 billion euros
to assure the accessibility of the
competition to athletes visitors and
tourists but accessible is a word
scoffed at by some disabled like Cronk
my go for a tour with my paralympic
Medal winner himself and paris's most
accessible public transport systems and
you see the problems which face the 350
000 disabled visitors expected to attend
next year's games
when Mike comes into the city for
instance he uses a renovated train line
equipped with elevators making it
accessible but he points out not
accessible without help
and while there are elevators they're
sometimes hard to find or not
functioning as a disabled British
visitor found out all of the lists were
broken every single one and if the most
modern subway line has problems the 13
other older lines of the famous Paris
Metro are simply impossible for disabled
users while the Metro system is no doubt
the most efficient way to get around
Paris it was built more than 100 years
ago and most of the stations are like
this one not accessible to anyone who
can't go up and down stairs the Metro
system is gradually making improvements
officials don't believe that more than
14 percent of it will be wheelchair
accessible by 2024 in the Olympic Games
just by comparison Tokyo system was 90
percent accessible for the last Olympic
Games
even the mayor of Paris admits there are
problems the Metro which is very ancient
cannot be made totally accessible but
the mayor quickly pivots to the brand
new tramways built at ground level which
shouldn't be a problem for those in
wheelchairs and she points out the buses
which are being renovated and equipped
with ramps but the disabled who actually
used the buses to say it's not that
simple because for example sometimes the
extendable ramp doesn't work or the
drivers don't know how to use them while
the mobility issue remains a priority
there are others housing for instance
the tens of thousands of hotel rooms and
short-term apartment rentals in the
city's historic buildings only a tiny
fraction are fully usable by people in
wheelchairs and there is the further
question of access to the bar of the
bathrooms and small businesses there are
part of the Paris scene despite the
challenges my is still a big supporter
of next year's games
what I say to people is come come to see
Paris that's clear no but don't be
surprised that Paris is not more
accessible that it's not the best of the
best because there's still so much work
to be done my and other disability
rights activists were hoping the games
could transform not just infrastructure
but also attitudes toward the disabled
yet with less than a year ago before the
games they say that looks increasingly
doubtful Jim bitterman CNN Paris
look out a record-breaking moment in
sports the biggest crowd ever at a
women's sporting event in the entire
world
on Wednesday women's volleyball in
Lincoln Nebraska a whopping 92 000 three
fans filled Memorial Stadium at the
University of Nebraska's campus fans
filing in to watch the five-time NCAA
champs as they took on and beat Omaha
three nothing and when the attendance
record was announced over the
loudspeakers crowd went wild the
previous world record for most fans at a
women's sporting event was set April of
2022 when 91 some thousand soccer fans
in Barcelona Spain for the Barcelona
versus Wolfsburg match congrats to all
the fans and to Nebraska women's
volleyball go Corn Huskers
today's story getting a 10 out of 10 is
Dynomite t rexellent a Jurassic Classic
every year Emerald Downs Racetrack in
Auburn Washington has a 14 and under
T-Rex race where the winners wear T-Rex
costumes but the standout this year was
not the winner it was the four-year-old
best friends who came in last argenie
Moss has more
move over thoroughbred race horses and
they're off in the kids T-Rex race here
at Emerald Downs in Washington state the
first to go down was the blue dinosaur
and the leader lost his shoe a Croc no
less but that didn't stop the one shoe
teenage T-Rex from winning competitors
had to be 14 and under long past when
the rest of the contestants had crossed
the Finish Line the fight for next to
last place featured these two stragglers
was it hard to run in the suit yeah it's
hard
how hard unless you too hard
super hard yeah
Alex Schooley and Sydney Petrie are best
friends Sydney is the daughter of the
race tracks marketing director the two
four-year-olds Rock their warm up and
then held hands as the race got underway
so those two little T-Rexes start to
Waddle they were trying to run but it
was more of a waddle
Sydney kept chewing on a toy T-Rex we
gotta do the interview first we gotta do
the interview their 100 yard dash was
immortalized or where I want to frame it
careful Alex the two stragglers finally
crossed the Finish Line Alex just a few
feet ahead of Sydney definitely an
amazing best friend moment and don't you
dare bring up losing that word is
extinct in Sydney the T-Rex's lexicon
first thing she said to me when she
crossed Finish Lines was Dad we won we
won Cinemas CNN New York
tiny arms Big Dreams and an awesome
attitude our special shout out today is
going to Western Hills University High
School in Cincinnati Ohio rise up let's
take great energy Good Vibes and lots of
love into this weekend no episode Monday
because of Labor Day holiday so I'll see
you on Tuesday remember you are more
powerful than you know I'm Coy wire it's
been a blessing to spend this week with
you
thank you
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