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A long-running attempt to make [[chess]] and official sport at the [[Olympics]] has not yet been successful.<ref name="chess">https://www.chess.com/news/view/chess-put-forward-to-join-paris-2024-olympic-games</ref>
 
A long-running attempt to make [[chess]] and official sport at the [[Olympics]] has not yet been successful.<ref name="chess">https://www.chess.com/news/view/chess-put-forward-to-join-paris-2024-olympic-games</ref>
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The 2024 Olympics are being hosted by [[Paris]], [[France]], which is the second city (after [[London]]) to host the modern Olympics three times.  France has traditionally been very pro-chess, even having a thriving chess club when [[Thomas Jefferson]] stayed there in the late 1700s.
    
The sport of [[curling]] has been described as "chess on ice."<ref name="chess"/>
 
The sport of [[curling]] has been described as "chess on ice."<ref name="chess"/>
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