Paris/Prensa Latina
By Michel Dalí, particular correspondent
Well-known and unknown, boundless enthusiasm, boundless expectations: Paris was in ecstasy shortly after the beginning of an Olympic Video games opening ceremony stuffed with ellipses.
The multifaceted tones, colours restricted by the leaden and wet evening, though the ships that can carry representatives of the ten,500 athletes from 206 nations already exhibit the polychromy with two two-tone (crimson and blue) chimneys and the flags.
On a form of atypical crimson carpet resulting in the Eiffel Tower, personalities comparable to former NBA basketball participant Tony Parker, actor Omar Sy, swimmer Laurie Manaudou, and former runner Marie-José Pérec started to stroll.
Additionally the American tennis participant Serena Williams, who praised the extraordinary success that certainly one of her most beloved corners might have: Paris
The singing of the nationwide anthem, the Marseillaise, dancers performing Phenix, the Dance of the Video games, an opulent appetizer, Girl Gaga; Aya Nakamura overlaying La Bohéme by Charles Aznavour and the closing to position the feelings within the firmament: Hymn to Love, by Edith Piaf, sung by Céline Dion.
Pérez or Zinedine Zidane, the 2 names which are being bandied about to mild the cauldron within the Tuileries Backyard and doubtless the nice secret of the Olympic Video games: the end result on the foot of the Eiffel Tower with a safety bubble that can cover the Grande Dame till one thing particular about her picture is revealed.
Airspace is closed in the course of the ceremony inside a radius of 150 kilometres, and no planes are allowed to land at Parisian airports.
The get together was on, a sabotage of the nation’s practice system was already below management, and safety measures have been made extra excessive, however the Metropolis of Lights was not too fazed. It took excessive precautions and went forward with the Olympic opening for the primary time in historical past exterior a stadium.
French President Emmanuel Macron posted a video on his X social community on Friday exhibiting iconic websites such because the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre Museum pyramid and the Trocadero sq., welcoming the 2024 Summer time Olympics.
The numbers converse for themselves. Greater than 45,000 law enforcement officials have been deployed all through town, 9 million tickets have been bought to the services and tourism has been comparatively regular.
From the Place Trocadero, the Eiffel Tower, the banks of the Seine or its majestic bridges, with a contact of unprecedented originality, the beginning shot has you gasping for breath.
Three hours and 45 minutes of occasions, beginning at 7:30 p.m., departing from the Austerlitz bridge, subsequent to the Jardin des Plantes, heading west alongside the Seine, passing by iconic Parisian websites comparable to Notre-Dame, the Louvre, the Place de la Concorde and the magnificence of essentially the most well-known bridge within the Metropolis of Lights, Alexander III.
Trocadero and its esplanade, with the absolute best view of the Eiffel Tower, will enable guests to see the boats arriving within the space, the place the ceremonial occasions will happen and the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games might be formally declared open, within the presence of greater than 300,000 folks.
Nonetheless, Paris will give up to the ceremony from each nook, with some 80 large screens to be put in in key areas all through the charismatic French metropolis. Additionally it is estimated that two billion folks all over the world will be capable to watch the occasions on tv.
Greece, the primary nation to sail throughout the Seine in its personal boat, is now making the long-awaited Paris occasion a actuality.
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