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PARIS — The biggest beach volleyball star at the Paris Olympics can't set, spike or dive around the sand. But she sure is pretty. The Eiffel Tower has been stealing the show from the competition below at the Summer Games so far. Fans and players alike have been ooh-la-la-ing over the nonpareil setting that has turned the stadium on the Champ de Mars into the Olympics' iconic venue. Fans wave baguettes, dance the can-can and sing along to music pumped out by a DJ. A stream of celebrities, heads of state and royalty have stopped by to check it out.
