Paris 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony on July 26, 2024, will commemorate 100 years of the Paris Olympicss. The 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony promises to be daring, imaginative, and unique.
Paris 2024 has taken on the challenge of revolutionising the Games while remaining accessible to viewers worldwide. The Paris 2024 organisation, the City of Paris, the French government, the IOC, and the CNOSF are working together to recreate the Opening Ceremony.
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The athletes will be the ceremony’s centrepiece and spirit. Unlike previous years, Paris 2024 begins with an athletes’ parade. Athletes will be featured on stage both before and during the ceremony.
10500 athletes from 206 National Olympics Committees (NOCs) will be in attendance, along with around 120 heads of state, sovereigns, and governments.
An estimated 1.5 billion people are expected to watch the 2024 Olympics Summer Games opening ceremony on TV and online. The event will be broadcast globally.
Where Will The 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony Take Place?
For the first time in history, the Olympics Summer Games opening ceremony will be held in a river. Paris 2024 is pushing the boundaries of urban sports, and the Opening Ceremony will take place in the city’s centre alongside the Seine.
The athletes’ parade will reemerge on the Seine, this time with boats representing each participating nation. Viewers will be able to see the athletes up close thanks to the cameras put on the boats.
Moving from east to west, the 10,500 athletes will travel through the heart of Paris, which serves as the Games’ principal arena. After travelling six km, the parade will arrive in front of the Trocadéro, where the last acts and other Olympics procedures will take place.
Which Is The Paris 2024 Parade Route?
The river parade will travel six kilometres east-west along the Seine River. The parade will begin at 7.30 p.m. CET on the Austerlitz Bridge, near the Jardin des Plantes. It will circumnavigate the two principal islands, Île Saint Louis and Île de la Cité, passing under several bridges and gates.
Athletes on parade boats will be able to see a number of the official Games locations, including the Grand Palais, Parc Urbain La Concorde, Esplanade des Invalides, and the Iéna bridge, where the parade will culminate before the Trocadéro ceremony.
The games’ first-ever opening ceremony is taking place on a river, with around 94 vessels in the march fleet along the Seine. Among their passengers will be the delegates and the performers.
Who Are Broadcasting Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony?
- United States: NBCUniversal
- United Kingdom: BBC
- Pacific Islands: Sky Pacific
- New Zealand: Sky Television
- France: France Télévisions
- Europe: Eurosport
- Canada: TSN, Sportsnet
- Australia: Nine
How To Watch Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony?
The Olympics will have its own streaming channel, where you can tune in to watch both live and past events for free. In France, the national broadcaster’s digital platform france.tv will be showing the games, and in the UK, the iPlayer and the BBC website will be streaming live and catch-up coverage.
Services like Eurosport, TNT Sports, Peacock and Discovery+ will also be showing a number of events, but those require a subscription.
For those of us tuning in to the Games in France, France Télévision, the national broadcaster, is the channel to hop to.
If you’re in the UK and have a TV licence, the BBC is the place to go for all Olympic coverage, and a team of legendary athletes will be holding panels on the events.
For US watchers, NBC is set to air at least nine hours of coverage a day, as well as a three-hour primetime show of all the day’s highlights.
Is The 2024 Summer Olympicss Opening Ceremony Free For The Viewers?
It is a huge first to have a ceremony that is free and open to a large number of people. Fans can reach the upper quays without a ticket, but they must pay one to access the lower quays, which stretch from the Austerlitz Bridge to the Iéna Bridge.
With 80 massive screens and strategically placed speakers, everyone will be able to soak in the show’s enchanting atmosphere as it reverberates around the French city. The largest opening ceremony in Olympics history will be held in Paris in 2024. Everyone is welcome to join, including Parisians and visitors from throughout France and around the world.
Paris 2024 Ceremony Key Team
Artistic director: Thomas Jolly
Music director: Victor le Masne
Director of Dance: Maud Le Pladec
Choreographer: Maud Le Pladec
Styling and Costume director: Daphné Bürki
Head Costume Master: Olivier Bériot
Paris 2024 Ceremony Commentators
France Télévisions: Daphné Bürki, Laurent Delahousse, Alexandre Boyon
NBC: Mike Tirico, Kelly Clarkson, Peyton Manning
BBC: Clare Balding, AJ Odudu, Linda Robson, Diane Parish and Farida Khalifa
2024 Summer Olympics Opening Performers list
The whole shebang has been kept largely under wraps, but that hasn’t stopped rumours swirling about who is expected to perform at the opening ceremony. Two of the most exciting anticipated named include none other than Celine Dion and Lady Gaga.
Aya Nakamura, the most listened-to French singer worldwide, is also expected to perform at the opening ceremony. Stay tuned for updates on the line-up.
How many athletes will take part?
Almost 100 boats carrying an estimated 10,500 athletes will float along the Seine during the parade. The larger of the 206 National Olympics Committees (NOCs) represented in the parade will have boats to themselves, while the smaller ones will share boats.
Camera equipment set up on the decks will allow spectators to see the athletes up close and witness their emotions.
Paris 2024 Protocolar Elements and Torch Relay
The Parade of Nations will take place on the Seine, with the 10,500 athletes marching in delegation order. Other ceremonial festivities will take place at the Jardins du Trocadéro. Gérald Darmanin, the Interior Minister, has projected that 35,000 police officers will be deployed for the opening ceremony, in addition to the 25,000 security personnel required.
Tony Estanguet, president of COJOP2024, is in charge of coordinating the 80-day Olympics torch relay for the Olympics flame. The torch was supposed to journey from Greece to Marseille, via the French Caribbean, the Palace of Versailles, and Mont-Saint-Michel, before arriving at the Olympics cauldron lighting ceremony.
On April 16, 2024, it was lit in Olympia, Greece. It spent the next ten days touring Greece before being presented at COJOP2024 on April 26 at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. It departed from Piraeus aboard the sailing ship Belem and arrived in Marseille on May 8, 2024, escorted by a thousand boats.