After a few hours, the opening ceremony of 2024 Olympics (2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games) will kick off. It will start at 8:30 pm (Cairo time).
For the first time, the opening ceremony will not take place in a stadium, but participants will arrive in boats and cruise down the Seine. They pass by Paris landmarks like the Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral and the Louvre.
The parade will kick off at the Austerlitz Bridge and follow the river from east to west.
Athletes aboard the boats will tour several Olympic venues like La Concorde Urban Park, which will host the competitions of 3X3 basketball, breaking, BMX freestyle cycling, skateboarding, Invalides, which is the place for archery, athletics, road cycling, and the Grand Palais, which is the place of fencing, taekwondo.
The parade will end at the Iena Bridge, which links the Eiffel Tower on the left bank of the Seine to the Trocadéro district on the right bank.
3,000 dancers, artists and other athletes will be featured in the opening and closing ceremonies.
Iconic Celine Dion and Lady Gaga will perform at the opening ceremony. Several stars were spotted carrying the Olympic torch like Snoop Dogg, and K-Pop stars BTS.
The ceremony length's could be more than four hours and half, and there is an expectation that the viewership of the opening would surpass 1 billion views.
The organizers are hoping that the reported sabotage related to the railway system in France would not impact the preparations of the event.
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There are beliefs that this opening would be the biggest and most widely covered Olympic opening ceremony in the history.
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