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The organizers of Friday’s opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games hope to provide relief, positivity and unity in a world increasingly beset with tension.
PARIS — The 2024 Summer Games began Friday night with a groundbreaking opening ceremony that sent athletes sailing down the Seine River so an entire city could welcome them. Marking the first ...
The opening ceremony will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Paris (1:30 p.m. EDT in the States) on July 26, and the Games will run through August 11. (Three sports did start two days early, on July 24 ...
The opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics took place on 26 July 2024 across Paris, beginning at 19:30 CEST (17:30 UTC).As mandated by the Olympic Charter, the proceedings included an artistic program showcasing the culture of the host country and city, the parade of athletes and the lighting of the Olympic cauldron.
The Paris Olympics' opening ceremony next Friday will be a joyful, daring and atypical show in which artists and athletes together celebrate Paris, France and the Games alongside the river Seine ...
The 2022 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony took place on Sunday, 20 November 2022 at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor, prior to the opening match of the tournament between hosts Qatar and Ecuador. [1] It included appearances by Morgan Freeman and Ghanim Al-Muftah , and a performance by South Korean singer Jungkook of BTS .
The news, and subsequent confirmation of the report on 11 June, was met with widespread backlash on social media. [230] Clark, who has been credited with a significant increase in interest in women's basketball , had won a number of medals within Team USA's youth system but had no senior team experience prior to the Olympics.
Floriane Issert, an officer with France's National Gendarmerie, carries the Olympic flag during the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics on Friday. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)