“The contestants warmed up with stretches and squats in front of City Hall, carefully repositioned croissants and glasses on their trays and tightened their aprons as pop music blared from loudspeakers. Then, they were off. On Sunday, for the first time in over a decade, Paris revived a tradition: an annual race of cafe and restaurant waiters.” NYT (Gift Article): Ready, Set, Garçon! Paris Waiters Race as Storied Contest Returns.

+ NBC’s Paris Olympics opening ceremony will play on IMAX screens. “This is the first Summer Olympics opening ceremony that will not be held in a stadium. Instead, organizers are sending Olympians down the River Seine on a four-mile-long flotilla of nearly 100 boats.”