What to know concerning the Paris Olympics opening ceremony
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With umbrellas deployed, 1000’s of athletes and spectators who lined the streets of Paris formally kicked off the 2024 Olympics on Friday.
The bold ceremony kicked off with an enormous plume of blue, white and pink smoke within the colours of the French nationwide flag with the Parade of Nations from the Austerlitz Bridge beside the Jardin des Plantes.
Pyrotechnics within the colours of the French nationwide flag are set off over a bridge in the course of the Paris Olympics opening ceremonies on July 26, 2024.
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Athletes aboard boats traveled the course of the Seine River from east to west, getting a glimpse of a number of Olympic venues together with the La Concorde Urban Park, Invalides and the Grand Palais.
Giant jets of water spurted up from the river because the Greek delegation — as at all times — was the primary boat underneath the bridge and alongside the 6-kilometer (3.7-mile) route.
American singer Lady Gaga graced the crowds with a efficiency at a makeshift yellow staircase within the conventional model of the outdated French subways.
About 220,000 invited and security-screened spectators crammed the higher tiers of the Seine’s banks, and a further 104,000 paying spectators watched from the decrease riverside and across the Trocadéro plaza.
The parade ended on the Iena Bridge, which hyperlinks the Eiffel Tower on the left financial institution of the Seine to the Trocadéro district on the correct financial institution.
Here are extra images from the occasion:
Spectators wait on a balcony forward of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024.
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Spectators look ahead to the beginning of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France, Friday, July 26, 2024.
Thibault Camus / AP
Athletes from Brazil’s delegation wave Brazilian flags as they sail in a ship alongside the river Seine initially of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on July 26, 2024.
CARL DE SOUZA/POOL/AFP by way of Getty Images
Flagbearers of Canada Maude Charron (L) and Andre de Grasse are seen forward of the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France, July 26, 2024.
CAO CAN/POOL/AFP by way of Getty Images
Lebron James appears to be like on earlier than the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
QUINN ROONEY/POOL/AFP by way of Getty Images
A performer sits on a bridge in Paris, France, in the course of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 26, 2024.
Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP
Lady Gaga performs in Paris, France in the course of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics on Friday, July 26, 2024.
Luca Bruno / AP
Athletes of Greece wave handheld nationwide flags on a ship because it makes its manner alongside the Seine in Paris, France, in the course of the opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Michael Reaves / AP
Ukraine’s athletes stand on a ship forward of the opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics on the Seine River in Paris, France.
Clodagh Kilcoyne / AP
Team Bhutan in the course of the athletes’ parade on the Seine in Paris, France, in the course of the opening ceremony for the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 26, 2024.
Michael Reaves / AP
Reflections of Team Great Britain athletes are seen on the crew boat as they go underneath a bridge on the River Seine in the course of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024.
Naomi Baker/Getty Images
Team Saudi Arabia waves flags on a ship in Paris, France, in the course of the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 26, 2024.
Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP
Lucia Suarez Sang
Lucia Suarez Sang is an affiliate managing editor at CBSNews.com. Previously, Lucia was the director of digital content material at FOX61 News in Connecticut and has beforehand written for retailers together with FoxNews.com, Fox News Latino and the Rutland Herald.
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