In a gaffe shortly before French President Emmanuel Macron declared the Games open, the five-ring Olympic flag was raised upside down at the Trocadero, across from the Eiffel Tower.

To preserve the spirit of the games, she's proposed making the five Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower a permanent fixture. That's created what the French like to call a polemique, or a controversy, in ...

Ahhh, la Tour Eiffel ... climbed the tower to fly a homemade French “tricolore” at the top, while active fighting went on ...

To preserve the spirit of the games, she's proposed making the five Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower a permanent fixture. That's created what the French like to call a polemique, or a controversy ...