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Paris Olympics 2024: Rain fails to dampen opening ceremony alongside the River Seine
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Paris Olympics 2024: Rain fails to dampen opening ceremony alongside the River Seine

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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’.

Paris Olympics 2024: Rain fails to dampen opening ceremony alongside the River Seine
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Footballing royalty Zinedine Zidane handed the Olympic flame on to tennis legend Rafael Nadal in Paris

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.

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Andy Murray during Olympic opening ceremony
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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.

Easy methods to observe the Olympics on Sky

Hold updated with the motion from the Paris 2024 Olympics throughout Sky Sports activities’ digital platforms and Sky Sports activities Information every single day between now and Sunday August 11.

Alongside dwell information blogs and updates as data are damaged and medals received on skysports.com and the Sky Sports activities app, Sky Sports activities Information can even have devoted reporters on the scene in Paris through the Video games to assemble the newest information each inside and outdoors the arenas in France in addition to response to the large moments from medal winners, coaches, family members and pundits.

Launching this August, Sky Sports activities+ can be built-in into Sky TV, streaming service NOW and the Sky Sports activities app – giving Sky Sports activities clients entry to over 50 per cent extra dwell sport this 12 months at no further price.

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