When and the place to look at the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games?

The 17-day Summer season Olympics in Paris kick off on Friday, July 26. This would be the third time that Paris has hosted the Summer season Video games and the primary since 1924. For the primary time, the Parade of Nations is not going to be held in an Olympic stadium; as an alternative, the parade will happen on the River Seine. Athletes will journey by boat alongside the river, which is able to meander by the middle of Paris.

The opening ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time. Telemundo will supply reside protection of the Opening Ceremony from 10 a.m. to three p.m. on Telemundo, Telemundo.com, the Telemundo App and Peacock.

The delegations will enter by the centre of Paris. The parade will finish its practically 6-kilometre route in entrance of the Trocadero, the place the opposite components of the ceremony and the ultimate performances will happen. The Olympic brazier is not going to be put in on the Eiffel Tower, because the organisers had initially deliberate; as an alternative, the Jardin des Tuileries will host the well-known Olympic flame of the Video games.

For safety causes, the variety of spectators will likely be restricted to round 300,000, though there will likely be 80 big screens alongside the waterway. The size of the parade is 6km and it’s anticipated to final virtually 4 hours.

The Video games will characteristic 329 occasions in 39 sports activities, together with, for the primary time in historical past, breaking, also referred to as break-dancing. Competitions will likely be held in places as far aside as Marseille and Tahiti. Some groups will deliver their very own air-con to the Olympic Village, which will likely be cooled by a system of water pipes as a part of the organizers’ effort to host the “greenest Video games in historical past.”