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Airing live from the Seine on NBC and Peacock Friday, July 26, the Paris 2024 Olympics kick off with a first-of-its-kind outdoor opening ceremony.
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Mike Tirico hosts the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics
Cover Story Summer on the Seine: Boat parade welcomes athletes to Paris 2024
By Dana Simpson Due to kick off the festivities at 7:30 p.m. The Paris 2024 OlymCET (10:30 a.m. in Los pics Opening Ceremony Angeles, or 1:30 p.m. New is causing somewhat of a York time, for more local “Seine” in the news. OK, reference), the Opening that was an admittedly ridiculous pun, but the crux Ceremony sees the 10,500 athletes parade in by way of the statement remains of 94 boats on the Seine, true. Airing live from Parleaving the Pont d’Ausis, France, Friday, July 26, terlitz, in the east, and on NBC and Peacock, the headed to Pont d’Iéna, six 2024 Summer Olympic kilometers to the west. Games are the first iterWith one boat to carry ation of the long-running all the athletes from each athletic tradition to host its opening ceremony (and competing country, as well as 80 jumbo screens with many events) outside of a speakers and free viewing stadium. areas for the public, there The reason for this is little doubt that the coldecision is not for a lack orful procession will be the of stadiums — Paris has busiest and most beautiful several sporting venues, start to any Olympics yet. which, like Stade de According to Olympics. France, could accommocom, “athletes on board the date large-scale crowds. parade boats will get glimpsThe organizers preferred 26 Chestnut St., HEAR esWHAT of some of the official to have the ceremony, e, Pa • Suite 200 MATTERS MOST Games venues, including rather romantically, lit by 814-837-7475 Parc Urbain La Concorde, sunset.
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the Esplanade des Invalides, the Grand Palais, and lastly the Iéna bridge, where the parade will come to a stop before the ceremony’s finale at the Trocadéro.” Along the parade route, 12 “artistic tableaux” are presented, drawing attention to the capital city’s famous monuments, architecture and history. “We are delighted to have an opening ceremony that illustrates the meeting between sport and the city in the most beautiful way,” said Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris 2024 organizing committee. “With the natural light of the setting sun, the event will be even more sublime, with a truly poetic dimension, inviting both athletes and the public to appreciate the natural beauty of the City of Light.” While the list of Opening Ceremony performers is
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still a secret (as of writing), the Games’ official website does promise “a unique multi-sensory spectacle ... [that] take[s] sport out of the stadiums and open[s] up the Games.” As for NBC’s coverage of the event, “Sunday Night Football” host Mike Tirico covers his fourth Olympic Opening Ceremony, this time alongside NFL Hall-of-Famer Peyton Manning (“Peyton’s Places”) and the first-ever “American Idol,” Kelly Clarkson. NBC morning favorites Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb will also host a special edition of “Today” from a bridge over the Seine. Rapper/entrepreneur Snoop Dogg also has plans to report for NBC from various live evening events over the Games’ 16-day run.
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