In the early morning of July 27, Beijing time, the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games officially began.
Paris is the hometown of Coubertin, the "father of the modern Olympic Games", having hosted the Olympic Games twice, in 1900 and 1924. 100 years later, the Olympic Games are back in Paris. The entrance ceremony for the athletes began on the banks of the Seine, with the fireworks of the tricolor flag being lit.
The Chinese delegation's cruise ship was huge, Ma Long held high the national flag as the flag bearer, table tennis player Ma Long and synchronized swimmer Feng Yu held high the five-star red flag, and the cruise ship of the Chinese sports delegation athletes ignited Chinese red on the Seine River, winning the cheers of the audience on both sides of the strait.
More than 10,000 athletes took a boat down the Austerlitz Bridge, passing by landmarks such as Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Louvre, Place de la Concorde, Les Invalides and the Road to the Eiffel Tower, covering a distance of about 6 kilometers in 45 minutes before finally arriving at the Trocadero Square across the Eiffel Tower, the first time in the history of the modern Olympic Games that an athletes' entrance ceremony was held in the waters of an open urban space.
The first performance of the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics was "Mon Truc en Plumes" by United States female singer Lady Gaga. This difficult France song was first popularized in France by France dancer Zizi Jeanmaire, and Lady Gaga is dressed in black and perfectly displayed in the pink feathers of the dancers.
In one of the performances, the Minions stole the "Mona Lisa" is wonderful, impressive, the France used the anime style to dramatically recreate the historical scene, it turned out that the Minions stole the "Mona Lisa", restore the real theft of the 1911 "Mona Lisa", maybe they hope that the world will remember this Paris Olympics as much as the Mona Lisa.
About 3,000 dancers, musicians and other performers performed on both sides of the river and on the bridges along the way, bringing a visual and auditory feast to the audience. Maude · Lepradek, director of dance at the opening and closing ceremonies, said: "There is music, dance and performance on every stretch of river, every bridge. This is how France understand sports, and many people may not understand it.
As the female riders run on the Seine, the real climax is coming, when France as the host arrived at the main venue at nightfall on a luxury cruise ship, the Olympic torch was handed over by the famous France star Zidane to the famous Spain tennis star Nadal at night, and the torch entered the final relay and lighting link, after a number of torchbearers, the last torchbearer to light the cauldron was France judo star and three-time Olympic gold medalist Teddy Riner, and Marie-José Pérec, a legendary France track and field athlete and three-time Olympic gold medalist.
With Celine Dion singing and looking at the land of France, the Olympic cauldron was lit and the hot air balloon that lit the flame was raised, which was the cauldron of the Paris Olympics, representing the official opening of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, and the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games in the middle of the night on the 26th came to a successful conclusion.
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics was open, with 222,000 free tickets available to watch the parade on the banks of the upper Seine, in addition to the 104,000 paid tickets at the lower quays, so more than 300,000 people from all over the world were able to watch in person. The Paris Olympics made the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games truly open, not only to achieve the opening of the venue, but also to abandon the disadvantages of only a small number of people to watch the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, will remember the annals of history, because the real Olympics belong to the public! Belong to the people!