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Curtain raises on the Greatest Show on Earth tonight

Published : Friday, 26 July, 2024 at 12:00 AM  Count : 261
Sports Reporter
The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad, is formally beginning with a colourful opening ceremony on Friday at 11:30pm (BD time) in the France capital city Paris.
 
Although different sporting actions actually started on Wednesday. 

More than 10,000 athletes, representing 206 countries and approximately 120 heads of state, sovereigns and heads of government are expected to attend the opening ceremony. 

The Olympic Games is called the Greatest Show on Earth and it is the first being held in Europe since London hosted in 2012. 

For the first time, the opening ceremony will take place outside a closed stadium, with an open-air parade of 160 boats with 94 of them carrying athletes and sailing six km along the Seine at the heart of Paris. The parade will come to an end in front of the Trocadero, where the remaining elements of the Olympic protocol and final shows will take place.During the parade, performers in the ceremony will be with the delegations and passengers on the boats.

Paris organisers are expecting a total of one billion television and online viewers for the ceremony, which will be broadcast all over the world. Three hundred thousand spectators are expected to line the route.

Eurosport and the BBC will telecast the big moments while traditionally the opening ceremony gets shown live on BBC One. 

In the meantime, concerns grew over security threats and crowd control during the event. France President Emmanuel Macron stated that France had prepared alternative plans if the ceremony needed to be altered further.



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