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Even before Friday morning’s arson attacks, the top priority for security officials throughout the Games will be to prevent a large-scale terrorist attack, like the coordinated suicide bombings and shootings that killed 130 across Paris in 2015, or the truck that plowed into a crowd in Nice, killing 86 people in 2016. The most recent terrorism incidents in France, though, have all been small-scale knife attacks, and those are considered a particular risk during the Olympics, analysts say.
None of those were successful, but athletes’ health data was leaked in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and a cyberattack disrupted broadcast systems and shut down the Olympics website in South Korea in 2018. Moscow was suspected of being behind both. French officials also are worried about technology that could facilitate physical attacks, allowing perpetrators to circumvent safety checkpoints and physical barriers.
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