PARIS — In French, there are no goodbyes. Instead, Olympic crowds from Paris to the surfing venue in Tahiti were saying “au revoir” — see you again — as the 2024 Games drew to a close ...

“They’re [the Olympic medals] apparently not as high quality as you’d think,” he added. “It’s looking rough. “I don’t know, Olympic medals, we gotta step up the quality a little bit.

But this much is certain: They're both emerging changed — in some ways for the better — from their summer romance. Paris' third Games — it also hosted in 1900 — have been filled with passion.