The official account of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games posted a publish about his look: “The Olympic flame that arrived by mistake on the Stade de France should be introduced again to Paris. Hundreds of athletes and spectators are ready for it on the banks of the Seine. Thanks Zinedine Zidane.”
Then it was the flip of the Argentine delegation, which had the volleyball participant Luciano DeCecco and the hockey participant Rocio Sanchez Moccia as normal bearers.
Sánchez Moccia is the captain of The lionesswith whom he performed greater than 250 worldwide matches, three Olympic Video games and received two silver medals: first in London 2012 after which in Tokyo 2021.
De Cecco, for his half, is the captain of the nationwide volleyball workforce and received the historic bronze medal in Tokyo 2020. This will likely be his fourth Olympic participation.
Among the 136 Argentine athletes who will take part in 25 disciplines appeared on the River Seine, after the Saudi Arabian delegation, with the everyday coloration and pleasure that nationwide representatives have and singing “Come on, come on, Argentina.”
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One of many emotional moments got here when the historic Notre Dame Cathedral was honored, with emotional background music and an important efficiency by a number of dancers.
The cathedral, which was constructed between 1163 and 1345, is presently present process repairs following a hearth in 2019 that destroyed two-thirds of the roof and triggered the central spire by Viollet-le-Duc to fall. The fireplace could have been brought on by carelessness throughout ongoing building work.
Throughout this a part of the ceremony, a masked fencer carried the Olympic torch by way of numerous components of Paris and the preparation of the gold, silver and bronze medals to be awarded within the totally different disciplines was additionally seen.
Then got here one of many strongest photographs, because the queen consort of France till 1793, Marie Antoinette, had a formidable and surprising look.
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Marie Antoinette, who held this place in royalty after marrying Louis XVI, died by guillotine when she was about 38 years outdated as a result of fury of the French folks in the course of the disaster that the nation was going by way of on the finish of the 18th century.
She was launched along with her decapitated, holding her personal head whereas the phrase “liberty” appeared, the primary phrase in France’s motto, which is: “Liberty, Fraternity and Equality.”
The historic portray “Liberty Main the Individuals” by Eugene Delacroix, painted in 1830 and stored on the Louvre Museum in Paris, was carried out earlier. On the similar time, the heavy steel band Gojira was enjoying.
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Then it was the flip of the Minionsthese pleasant characters from the Despicable Me film saga, who triggered a sensation once they appeared subsequent to the Mona Lisa.
The yellow characters, who rose to fame for being assistants to Gru, the protagonist of Despicable Me, starred in a video of simply over two minutes wherein they do numerous sports activities in a submarine and steal the Mona Lisa, probably the most well-known portray on the earth, which was made by Leonardo Da Vinci in the beginning of the sixteenth century.
Lastly, the submarine finally ends up flooding and explodes (don’t fret, all of the Minions ended up alive) and the Mona Lisa, that murals filled with mysteries even half a millennium after its creation, floats to the floor of the Seine River.
The Algerian delegation threw roses into the River Seine in the course of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics in honour of a bloodbath that happened nearly 63 years in the past. This act was carried out by the Algerians in repudiation of the “Paris Bloodbath” that happened on 17 October 1961.
That day was the day of a bloody repression in the course of the Algerian Struggle of Independence by the Parisian police, then led by Maurice Papon, in opposition to Algerians within the Parisian capital. The safety forces opened fireplace on the demonstrators and killed some 345 folks.
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The official speech
The President of the Worldwide Olympic Committee, Thomas Bachgave his speech in the course of the opening ceremony and careworn: “What higher place than Paris to share with the world the magic of the Olympic Video games.”
Bach, 70, who was born in Germany, careworn that “lastly the time has come” and thanked the “hundreds of volunteers for his or her dedication. Their smiles will make us fall in love with Paris and France much more.”
For its half, Tony EstanguetParis 2024 President mentioned: “It’s a nice honour to welcome again after 100 years, the final time we held the Olympic Video games,” and continued: “It’s actually an important duty to have the ability to stick with it this type of legacy. That’s the reason we’ve got put our hearts into all of this.”
Estanguet, who competed in canoeing within the slalom class and received three gold medals in numerous editions, confessed: “It’s undoubtedly an important duty to have the ability to stick with it this sort of legacy. That’s the reason we’ve got put our hearts into all this. We love the Video games and the efforts of so many individuals round them.”
An Olympic evening filled with stars
Rafael Nadal, Nadia Comaneci, Carl Lewis y Serena Williams They starred in a picture that can go down in sports activities historical past, as they shared a ship experience with the Olympic torch on the River Seine.
Nadal (Spain) received two gold medals; Comaneci (Romania) 5 gold medals, three silver and one bronze; Lewis (USA) 9 gold and one silver; and Williams (USA) took 4 first locations. Zidane had beforehand appeared, handing over the torch to Nadal.
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All of them took half in a ship journey alongside the Seine River that will likely be remembered for many years, earlier than handing the flame over to former French tennis participant and present director of Roland Garros Amélie Mauresmo, who ran alongside a number of athletes with the sacred flame.
Lastly, they lit the fireplace of Olympia in a brazier that was was a sizzling air balloon, in homage to the primary balloon in historical past, and will likely be flying over all of Paris in the course of the Olympic Video games.
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As soon as the brazier is lit, Celine Dion He thrilled everybody by singing in the course of the closing of the opening ceremony, from none aside from the Eiffel Tower.
Dion, 56, carried out for the primary time since revealing she suffers from stiff-person syndrome, a situation that impacts the muscular tissues of the trunk and stomach, which change into more and more inflexible and enlarged. This finally causes stiffness that impacts all the physique over time.
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This is the reason Dion triggered nice pleasure amongst folks world wide who had been watching the spectacular opening ceremony of the Olympic Video games, which happened in numerous components of Paris, primarily on the River Seine and on the Eiffel Tower. From there, and with a formidable staging, the Canadian sang Edith Piaf’s Ode to Love.
