Otherworldly spectacle of beach volleyball under the Eiffel Tower rocks Paris – literally | Paris Olympic Games 2024
TWatching beach volleyball beneath the Eiffel Tower can be unsettling. It’s not the imported sand engineered to not stick to the players’ bodies. It’s not the pretentious hosts pumping up the crowd. It’s not the perfectly timed competition to take in the beautiful sunset. It’s not the picture-perfect light show centered on Paris’ greatest monument. […]
Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison purchases ritzy Palm Beach resort near his sprawling Manalapan estate
Billionaire Larry Ellison has purchased the luxury 309-room seaside resort just south of Palm Beach, expanding his real estate empire that stretches from the East Coast to Hawaii. Ellison, one of the world’s richest people with an estimated net worth of $162 billion, according to Forbes magazine, bought the Eau Palm Beach Resort & Spa […]
Biden hunkers down at Delaware beach house after only public event of the week
Biden was at home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Friday after holding just one public event this week. Biden arrived at the White House late Thursday night and remains away after a tumultuous week around the world and on Wall Street. He has no events scheduled for today. The threat of an Iranian retaliation against […]
President Joe Biden to hold first public event of the week before flying to beach house in Delaware
Biden is scheduled to hold his first public event of the week before heading to his Delaware beach house on Thursday. Biden has not been seen in public since returning from his home in Wilmington, Delaware, with first lady Jill Biden on Monday, where they walked back from Marine One to the White House. So […]
Over $1 Million in Cocaine Blown onto Florida Beach by Hurricane Debby
More than $1 million worth of cocaine washed up on Florida’s coast as Hurricane Debbie hit the state, bringing heavy rains and flooding. Samuel Briggs II, acting chief patrol officer for the U.S. Border Patrol in Miami, revealed in X’s post that “25 boxes of cocaine,” or about 70 pounds worth of cocaine, had been […]
Hurricane Debby Washes $1 Million Worth Of Cocaine Onto Florida Beach
Interim Chief Patrol Officer Samuel of the U.S. Border Patrol announced on social media that Hurricane Debbie washed $1 million worth of cocaine onto the Florida coast on Monday. More than $1 million worth of cocaine washed up in the Florida Keys after Category 1 Hurricane Debbie wreaked havoc in the Big Bend region of […]
Hurricane Debby blows $1 million worth of cocaine onto Florida beach
More than $1 million worth of cocaine washed up on shore in the Florida Keys after Hurricane Debbie pounded the Big Bend of Mexico’s Gulf Coast on Monday morning, authorities said. Debby made landfall in the early morning as a Category 1 hurricane, with winds exceeding 80 mph, and carried more than two dozen packets […]
Steven van de Velde, the Dutch beach volleyball player convicted of rape, eliminated from Olympics
PARIS — Steven van de Velde, the Dutch beach volleyball player convicted of raping a 12-year-old British girl in 2016, was eliminated from the Paris Olympics on Sunday night after he and his partner Matthew Immers lost in straight sets to Brazil. In his fourth and final match, van de Velde was met with a […]
Egyptian beach volleyball team blast French hijab ban
Egypt’s women’s beach volleyball team last week condemned France’s move to ban its players from wearing the hijab after a match at the Paris 2024 Olympics. Marwa Abdelhadi and Doaa Elghobasy, who will represent Egypt at the 2024 Paris Olympics, wore hijabs, black leggings and long-sleeved T-shirts during a women’s beach volleyball match against Spain. […]
Meet the artist Peter Spens whose job is to paint beach volleyball
He calls himself a “caveman” with brushes, oil paints and large canvases, among photographers with expensive cameras and long lenses, all with the aim of photographing beach volleyball at the 2024 Olympics, but with very different approaches. “They’re collages of moments,” says 63-year-old British painter Peter Spence about his work. A photograph captures a particular […]