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But maybe not the end of the teen shredder’s Olympic dream! The ol’ citizenship swicharoo is in full swing as an athlete across the world doing whatever they gotta do to get into the 2024 Paris Games. Rare is the country that don’t fast-track an athletically gifted immigrant or wannabe immigrant if it gets a little extra glitter in the country’s medal cabinet. Kenyan distance runners, Jamaican springers, Russian wrestlers, Cuban boxers can choose whatever passport they want, pretty much. The Cuban-born British triple jumper Yamile Aldama, for one, has competed for Cuba, Britain and the Sudan. Sao Paulo’s Jesse…

The Paris Olympics take place from 26 July to 11 August 2024 France will deploy 35,000 security and military personnel to protect the Paris 2024 Olympic Games opening ceremony from threats including drone attacks. The opening ceremony will take place along a 6km stretch of the River Seine, featuring 160 boats with athletes and officials from more than 200 countries. Crowds of more than 600,000 people are expected to line the route. “Drones represent a totally new threat,” said French interior minister Gerald Darmanin. “We’ve done a lot of work on the classic threat, whether it’s delinquents, whether it is…