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Thinkingcreatively and revolutionising the Games yet remaining accessible to a large audience: this is the challenge met by Paris 2024. Thanks to the concerted efforts of Paris 2024, the City of Paris, the French government, the IOC and the CNOSF, the Opening Ceremony is being remade anew.

The Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Olympic Games will be bold, original and unique. On 26 July 2024, Paris 2024 will offer an Opening Ceremony that is certain to join the most memorable moments in Olympic history.

For the first time in the history of the Olympic Summer Games, the Opening Ceremony will not take place in a stadium. Paris 2024 is breaking new ground by bringing sports into the city and the same will be true of the Opening Ceremony, set to be held in the heart of the city along its main artery: the Seine.

Taking on a new guise, the parade of athletes will be held on the Seine with boats for each national delegation. These boats will be equipped with cameras to allow television and online viewers to see the athletes up close. Winding their way from east to west, the 10,500 athletes will cross through the centre of Paris, the overall playing field for the Games on which these competitors will display their sporting prowess over the next 16 days. The parade will come to the end of its 6-kilometre route in front of the Trocadro, where the remaining elements of Olympic protocol and final shows will take place.

A ceremony open to as many people as possible is a first. Eighty giant screens and strategically placed speakers will allow everyone to enjoy the magical atmosphere of this show reverberating throughout the French capital. The Opening Ceremony for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 will be the largest in Games history. It will be open to all: residents from Paris and its region, as well as visitors from all over France and around the world.

Installation operations will progressively take place in order to set up the grandstands and structures required for the opening ceremony. During the installation and dismantling phases, the footprint of the installations will be gradually increased. To ensure that access to the platforms, shops and other facilities is possible for as long as possible, we have worked on an adapted worksite methodology:

In the Trocadero sector, in the extension of the quays and bridges hosting the infrastructure for the Opening Ceremony, and then the Champions Park, the first developments have been underway since 20 March in the inner parts of the venue, with the first noticeable impact on traffic from 1 May.

On 1 July, the Trocadero Gardens and the Avenue des Nations Unies will be closed, and from 13 to 16 July will host the City of Paris' installations for the 14 July festivities, followed by the final installations for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.

As the Games approach, Paris 2024 and the public authorities responsible for these perimeters will provide the most accurate information possible to enable everyone to adapt to the different arrangements put in place for the Games period. You can find all the maps and information on these different security perimeters during the Games on the Prfecture de police venue.

To this end, they incorporate the principles of universal accessibility into their infrastructure (seating areas or stands) and will provide seats for individuals with disabilities, taking into account any topographical constraints that may arise.

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Instead of a traditional march into a stadium, about 6,800 athletes will parade on more than 90 boats on the Seine River for 6 kilometers (3.7 miles). This will start the ceremony, not mark the end of it, another break from tradition.

In addition to the athletes who will participate in the parade, 3,000 dancers, artists and other athletes will be featured in the opening and closing ceremonies. Most of the entertainment acts remain under wraps. NBC News reported that Celine Dion and Lady Gaga have arrived in Paris amid speculation that one or both of the pop singers will perform at the opening ceremony.

Rafael Nadal holds the Olympic torch alongside Serena Williams on a boat on the river Seine ahead of lighting the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony. Paul Childs/Reuters hide caption

The 2024 Summer Olympics will take place between July 26th and August 11th in Paris, France. Over those 16 days, 10,500 athletes will compete in 32 sports for 329 medals. All of it will be breathlessly broadcast by NBC over traditional TV and streaming.

But all I care about is the opening ceremony, which will air live at 1:30 P.M. EST on Friday, and will be rebroadcast on NBC at 7:30 P.M. EST that night. Every four years, this event gives me the chance to pump my fist and shout USA! USA! as I watch dozens of athletes, from all backgrounds and ethnicities and religions, sexual orientations and genders, wave little flags on their way to kick international ass.

The last few Summer Olympic ceremonies have been wonderful. In 2008, the Chinese pulled out all the stops: thousands of dancers, drummers, and martial artists performed underneath high-tech LED screens and firework displays.

When the U.S. athletes emerge to cheering crowds behind hundreds of other hopefuls from other countries, I get choked up. This year, as the Parade of Nations will consist of boats sailing down the river Seine in Paris. I love boats. I love the story the ceremony tells: no matter who you are, we all love a parade.

A boat parade of national delegations floated down the River Seine, cruising into the history books as the first modern Olympics opening ceremony held outside a stadium. The bash culminated on land with a finale light show beaming from the Eiffel Tower above the Trocadro, the lighting of a giant hot-air balloon cauldron and a surprise Olympics comeback for Celine Dion.

Headless performers dressed in red representing the beheaded Marie Antoinette stood in many window sills of the Conciergerie building where the queen herself was once imprisoned before she was sent to the guillotine. Spectators oohed and aahed at the scene's pyrotechnic show and blood-red streamers.

Pianist Sofiane Pamart and French Singer Songwriter Juliette Armanet perform on a Raft on the River Seine during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 on Friday. Alex Pantling/Getty Images hide caption

Leading up to and during the event, there was plenty of stateside star power in the torch relay, too. Snoop Dogg, Pharrell, Selma Hayek contributed to the running of the torch. Tennis great Serena Williams joined other athletes on a motorboat in carrying the flame to its final stages after its long journey.

Dion performed at the opening ceremony at the Atlanta Games in 1996. In recent years, the French-Canadian has had to step away from performing due to a rare and chronic neurological disorder known as stiff-person syndrome that causes severe muscle spasms. Before Friday night, her last live performance was in New York in 2020.

The open-air venue had invited serious security concerns, and officials locked down the city in anticipation. Closed roads and bridges at and around the Seine choked foot traffic and transportation. Tens of thousands of police and military personnel descended upon the city.

The first musical performance of the event is from American star Lady Gaga. She emerged theatrically from behind a heart-shaped plume of pink feathers, wearing a black leotard, long black gloves and a feathery headpiece.

She performed the iconic French song "Mon truc en plumes" by Zizi Jeanmaire as black-clad dancers shook pink pompoms around her. Lady Gaga briefly sat down at a piano to play a few bars, all at the foot of a golden staircase on the banks of the Seine.

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