After years of ready, coaching and getting ready, the world’s most expert athletes are off to the races with the 2024 Olympic Video games after a spectacular Opening Ceremony on the Seine in Paris Friday (July 26).
The festivities started with every collaborating nation’s athletes crusing in on boats in a parade down France’s well-known river, and waving excitedly at followers gathered to look at, marking the primary time in historical past that the Summer season Video games’ opening ceremony hasn’t taken place in a stadium. As they every filed in, lots of of singers, dancers and instrumentalists concurrently converged for a string of big-budget performances, undeterred by the pouring rain that fell on Paris all through the four-hour showcase.
The opening occasion happened throughout a number of Parisian landmarks, divided into totally different symbolic chapters named after French phrases similar to “Synchronicité,” “Liberté” and “Egalité.” By means of every show of music, lights and particular results, a mysterious hooded determine carried the Olympic torch on its technique to the cauldron, the lighting of which on the finish of the ceremony — following a monthslong relay that included Snoop Dogg, Pharrell Williams, BTS’ Jin and hundreds extra as torchbearers — signified the start of the two-week competitors.
From show-stopping performances led by worldwide superstars similar to Girl Gaga, Celine Dion and Aya Nakamura to immersive creative tributes to French tradition and values, the 2024 Olympics have been launched into movement with unprecedented ranges of pizazz.
Preserve studying to see Billboard‘s prime moments from the Opening Ceremony, so as of look, under.