Paris welcomed its first Olympic Video games in a century with a gap ceremony like no different as relentless rain did not put a dampener on proceedings alongside the enduring River Seine.
Footballing legend Zinedine Zidane starred in a video to tee up the arrival of the Olympic flame and appeared in individual in a while, handing the torch to tennis royalty Rafael Nadal, a 14-time French Open champion.
Nadal was then joined by fellow tennis nice Serena Williams in addition to Nadia Comaneci and Carl Lewis as they took the flame down the Seine earlier than it discovered its option to Marie-Jose Perec and Teddy Riner to gentle the cauldron.
As they did so, a balloon lifted the flame into the Paris sky and, again on the Eiffel Tower, Celine Dion appeared to provide her much-rumoured efficiency singing Edith Piaf’s ‘L’Hymne a l’amour’.
Girl Gaga was among the many performers early on as, for the primary time within the Video games’ historical past, the opening ceremony was not confined to a stadium.
British prime minister Sir Keir Starmer was amongst these watching from the primary stadium within the Jardins du Trocadero, carrying a Workforce GB rain jacket amid the driving rain.
Boats carried the staff delegations on a six-kilometre journey by means of the centre of Paris, with Workforce GB’s vessel together with flagbearers Tom Daley and Helen Glover and soon-to-retire tennis legend Andy Murray.
Andy Murray was on board the British boat on Friday night forward of his remaining Olympic Video games
Girl Gaga stole the present, rising from behind a pair of enormous pink-feathered pom-poms to ship a burlesque tackle the French traditional ‘Mon truc en plume’ an a night stuffed with stars.
The day had began with main disruption in Paris when the French prepare community was hit by an arson assault.
Over 10,000 athletes will compete throughout 32 sports activities on the Video games, with this 12 months’s Olympics to finish on August 11.
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