Historical past will likely be made in Paris on Friday when greater than 10,000 of the world’s finest athletes collect for a never-before-seen opening ceremony that can spotlight probably the most iconic Parisian landmarks.
The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris marks a return to normalcy after the COVID-19 pandemic compelled the Video games in Tokyo to be delayed till 2021. Friday’s celebrations will set the tone because the parade of athletes makes its means down the Seine River by boat.
Spectators view the Eiffel Tower and Olympic rings alongside the Seine River on July 21, 2024, in Paris. (Christian Petersen/Getty Photos)
It’s the first time the opening ceremony will happen exterior a stadium.
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Learn beneath for data on the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony.
Who will likely be there?
Approximately 10,500 athletes from 206 Nationwide Olympic Committees (NOCs) will participate in Friday’s festivities. Greater than 90 boats will carry these athletes on the Seine as spectators line as much as watch. Based on the Olympics web site, bigger NOCs may have their very own boat whereas smaller ones will share a vessel.
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About 220,000 invited and security-screened spectators are anticipated to fill the higher tiers of the Seine’s banks, and an extra 104,000 paying spectators will watch from the decrease riverside and across the Trocadéro plaza.
Seats for spectators are seen on the Pont du Carrousel, above the Seine River, with the Eiffel Tower within the background on July 23, 2024, as Paris prepares to host the Olympic Video games. (Remon Haazen/Getty Photos)
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What’s the route?
The parade will observe the three.7-mile stretch of the Seine starting on the Austerlitz Bridge beside the Jardin des Plantes. Alongside the best way, they may see up shut a few of Paris’ most historic landmarks, together with Notre-Dame and the Louvre, earlier than ending on the Iena Bridge, which hyperlinks the Eiffel Tower on the left financial institution of the Seine to the Trocadéro district on the fitting financial institution.
The best way to watch
Stay protection of the opening ceremony is ready to start at 1:30 p.m. ET and airs on NBC and streams on Peacock and NBC Olympic platforms.
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Main the best way
U.S. Open winner Coco Gauff and NBA star LeBron James will lead Crew USA because the flag bearer in Friday’s celebrations. In what will likely be her first Olympics, Gauff is the primary American tennis participant to hold the flag.
U.S. Olympians Marcos Giron, Emma Navarro, Tommy Paul, Danielle Collins, Taylor Harry Fritz, Coco Gauff, Desirae Krajczyk, Rajeev Ram, Jessica Pegula and Christopher Eubanks rejoice Gauff being named as a U.S. flag bearer on July 23, 2024, in Paris. (Joe Scarnici/Getty Photos for USOPC)
“I’m not placing an excessive amount of stress on it as a result of I actually wish to absolutely indulge within the expertise,” she mentioned of her Olympic debut. “Hopefully I can have the expertise a number of instances in my lifetime, [but] I’ll deal with it as a once-in-a-lifetime expertise.”
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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