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Paris took a major new step Monday to bidding for the 2024 Olympic Games when city lawmakers voted by an overwhelming majority to back a campaign.

"Now we're off on an Olympic adventure Cheap Nike Air Max 1 Wholesale ," said Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo. President Francois Hollande, a strong backer of a bid, is to meet International Olympic Committee (IOC) head Thomas Bach in Lausanne on Thursday.

A huge majority of the 163 law-makers backed a Paris bid in a vote. Only a handful of Greens and extreme left wing councillors voted against.

Paris is close to entering an intense Olympic battle. The US has entered Boston, and Rome will lead an Italian bid. Germany will enter Hamburg if a city referendum gives support.

The French Olympic Committee is -expected to make a final decision on Paris in June.

Cities have until September 15 to -enter bids and the IOC will make a decision in mid-2017.

Paris is hoping to capitalize on its world-famous landmarks to win support.

A feasibility study proposed holding beach volleyball in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, archery on the Invalides Esplanade near the tomb of Napoleon Bonaparte and fencing in the historic Grand Palais museum.

The Stade de France that held -soccer's 1998 World Cup final and Roland -Garros, the venue for the French Open tennis Cheap Nike Air Max 97 Wholesale , would also be used.

With so many existing venues on the draft plan, only a new swimming pool and a village for the 10,000 athletes would have to be built.

Initially, Hidalgo had doubts about a possible Olympic bid. However, she said the feasibility study, Islamist attacks in the city in January and the likely support of 1.8 billion euros ($2.0 billion) from the IOC made her change her mind.

"We have to look beyond the Olympic Games - to the thousands of houses built Cheap Nike Air Max 95 Wholesale , improvements in transport infrastructure," Hidalgo said.

Tony Estanguet, a three-time Olympic canoe champion, IOC member and probable joint head of the bid campaign called Monday's vote a "decisive step."

"There is still work to be done," he added however.

Hidalgo has promised that some kind of public approval will be sought in 2016, but has not yet said whether that will mean a referendum.

A poll published Sunday showed that nearly two-thirds of French people -favor an Olympic bid.

If the French capital wins Cheap Nike Air Max 90 Wholesale , the Games would be held on the 100th anniversary of the last time Paris staged the Olympic Games.

Paris was considered the front--runner for the 2012 Olympic Games and has never got over the disappointment of losing to London, whose event was widely acclaimed.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- Film "Ender's Game" became the biggest winner in North America as it outperformed all its cinematic rivals during the weekend, while "Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa" slipped to the second slot.

The futuristic "Ender's Game," based on the best-selling novel of the same name by Orson Scott Card, stars 16-year-old newcomer Asa Butterfield as a boy selected by the International Military to protect and save the human race from the invading insect-like outer space villains.

Playing at 3 Cheap Nike Air Max Wholesale ,407 theaters in the United States and Canada, the movie, directed by Gavin Hood, was welcomed by both critics and audience, garnering a 62-percent approval rate from reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and a strong "B+" on CinemaScore.

The Summit Entertainment sci-fi film debuted with 28 million U.S. dollars, according to an estimate from the distributor. However Cheap Air Max 1 Wholesale , it will need strong legs in order to make back its pricey 110-million-dollar budget for a much more competitive film arriving in theaters next weekend, namely, "Thor: The Dark World."

"Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa," a ParamountMTV Films comedy, also held up well this weekend. The film saw its ticket sales tumble 36 percent this weekend to 20.5 million dollars and finish in the second place with 62.1 million dollars in total after two weekends of release.

This week's third and fourth slots were occupied by a pair of new releases. "Last Vegas," a CBS film starring Morgan Freeman Cheap Air Max 97 Wholesale , Robert De Niro, Kevin Kline and Michael Douglas as four friends in their 60s who travel to Las Vegas for a bachelor party, debuted and ranked the third, with an estimated ticket revenue of 16.5 million dollars.

"Free Birds," the first feature film release by Reel FX Animation Studios and Relativity Media, which cost 55 million dollars to make Cheap Air Max 95 Wholesale , opened with 16.2 million dollars to finish the fourth.

Audiences responded more favorably to these newly released films than critics. According to reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, they earned only a 44-percent and 21-percent approval rate respectively, but moviegoers assigned them an "A-" CinemaScore apiece.

The 10 most popular films in North America this weekend, as estimated by studios, were "Gravity" (13.13 million dollars), "Captain Phillips" (8.5 million) Cheap Air Max 90 Wholesale , "12 Years a Slave" (4.6 million), "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2" (4.2 million), "Carrie" (3.4 million) and "The Counselor" (3.2 million).

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RIO DE JANEIRO, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Former Cruzeiro coach Marcelo Oliveira has agreed to join Palmeiras until the end of 2016, the Brazilian club said on Monday.

Oliveira was due to be officially presented to the media at the club's Sao Paulo headquarters on Tuesday, Palmeiras said in a statement on their website.

His signing comes six days after Palmeiras sacked Oswaldo de Oliveira due to poor results.

Oliveira led Cruzeiro to consecutive league titles in the past two seasons before being dismissed earlier this month after their Copa Libertadores quarterfinal loss to River Plate.

The 60-year-old's first game in charge of Palmeiras will be against Gremio in Porto Alegre on Saturday.

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