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World Leaders, 7,000 Athletes, 94 boats & 3,000 Dancers: What To Expect At The 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony As Paris Counts Down To “Show Of The Century”
Expectations and fears are running high in France with one local newspaper declaring the event “the show of the century”
The water parade will pass beside or under a host of Paris landmarks including the Notre Dame Cathedral, currently under re-construction following the devastating 2019 fire; the Pont Neuf, the Louvre and Place de la Concorde to arrive at the foot of the Eiffel Tower. Artistic director Thomas Jolly is promising to wrap all these requirements into a new multilayered show, taking inspiration from Danny Boyle’s approach for the opening ceremony of the London Olympics in 2012 which mixed UK pop culture, pomp, history and humor. Initial sources of inspiration were Sequana, the goddess of the River Seine, and King Iphitos, who per legend, created the Olympic games in the ninth century BC in a bid to bring peace to then warring Ancient Greece.
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