The world never ceases to hurry us. These photos - that sometimes contradict the motto of the Olympics, 'Faster, Higher, Stronger,' to which the word 'Together' was added by the Olympic committee in 2021 to recognise the importance of solidarity - resonate beyond its description for a leisurely flip or a deep read this week
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This photograph, executed marvellously to express motion, shows the Eiffel Tower adorned with the Olympic rings at night ahead of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris on July 23, 2024. The motion in the photograph surges onward and upward, symbolising the aspirations of the best who have gathered here to compete and achieve.
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A robotic arm from the Swiss running brand 'On' demonstrates a spray-on marathon shoe in Paris, France, on July 25, 2024. The running brand made its latest move in the super shoe race on the eve of the Paris Olympics, unveiling a marathon shoe produced by a robotic arm spraying filament called LightSpray onto a mould to create a sock-like upper with no laces in 6 minutes.Â
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A farm labourer lifts rice saplings as he prepares them for planting in a field on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, on July 22, 2024. The Government has raised the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy by 5.35 percent to ₹2,300 per quintal for the upcoming 2024-25 kharif marketing season. Paddy, the season's key crop, will see an MSP increase of ₹117 per quintal, allowing farmers a margin of exactly 50 percent.Â