2024 Olympics: Celine Dion Anticipated to Return to the Stage Throughout Opening Ceremony
It’s time to say bonjour to the 2024 Olympic Video games.
In any case, the Opening Ceremony kicked off in Paris July 26, marking the official begin to this 12 months’s summer time video games. And it was an occasion to behold, changing into the first-ever waterborne ceremony within the Video games’ historical past.
Certainly, Paris opted to forego the normal stadium venue and as an alternative ship the ten,500 taking part athletes in boats down the town’s Seine River.
Every nation’s delegation was given its personal boat outfitted with particular person cameras to permit for the close-up photographs of athletes viewers at dwelling have come to know and love.
And people viewers watching on NBC and Peacock have been additionally handled to a ceremony hosted by Kelly Clarkson, NFL legend Peyton Manning and Sunday Night time Soccer announcer Mike Tirico.
For the US, main the pack of virtually 600 athletes—340 of whom are showing on the Olympics for the very first time—have been basketball’s Lebron James and tennis’ Coco Gauff, who have been chosen because the group’s flag bearers.